Lead Technical Animator

1 Day ago • All levels • Animation • $74,547 PA - $106,496 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Lead Technical Animator at Maverick Games in Warwick, UK. This full-time, hybrid role involves leading an experienced team in delivering high-quality animations for a new AAA IP. Responsibilities include mentoring and growing the team, ensuring efficient workflows, automating content creation, and pushing the boundaries of animation quality. The ideal candidate will be a creative problem-solver with a passion for AAA game development and a desire to innovate and collaborate with a talented team. The role requires strong leadership, technical animation skills, and a commitment to creating iconic, memorable characters and animations.
Must have:
  • Lead and mentor a technical animation team
  • Deliver high-quality animation solutions
  • Automate and proceduralise content creation
  • Problem-solving and innovative thinking
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Monthly learning day
  • 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Job Details

We are a developer-first video game studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish.
Department
Art
Employment Type
Full Time
Location
Warwick
Workplace type
Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

Be Inspired.
  • Join a team creating state of the art, iconic characters and animations that people will love and remember
  • Help build an exciting new AAA IP using industry leading technology
  • Collaborate with outstanding people across every discipline to produce a shared creative vision

Be Creative.
  • Lead an experienced technical animation team to deliver solutions to the all of the content teams
  • Mentor and grow your team, while creating clear communication between artists
  • Use your problem-solving skills to ensure the team are able to achieve their best

Be Innovative.

  • • Push the boundaries of quality in computer games to a new level
  • • Automate and proceduralise content creation and workflows
  • • Bring ideas that go beyond what’s been done before

Be Rewarded. 

  • Starting at £74,547 rising to £106,496 with experience
  • Plus bonus, benefits and perks
  • Monthly learning day
  • 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.

Be a Maverick.

About Maverick Games

Maverick is different.

This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish. So take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you.

Be a Maverick.


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This is a developer-first studio, an environment where talented individuals are nurtured, inspired and flourish. So take risks, be curious, be creative, be bold, be innovative, be you. 
 

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