Senior Animator

Join the Exciting Journey at tombola! 🚀

Are you ready to be a part of something extraordinary? As tombola continues its remarkable growth, we're on the hunt for a Senior Animator. This role is based out of our Sunderland office three days a week so we are unable to take applications from candidates who don't live in the North East of England.

Find your bounce at tombola! 🎱

At tombola, we're not just another player in the game; we're the creators of the game. Our approach is revolutionary – we craft every element of our software in-house, from concept to execution. We take pride in the ingenuity of our developers and designers, united by their passion for pushing boundaries and shaping the future.

It’s not just our digital bingo balls that have loads of bounce. Our people do, too. Whatever your role, it’s the kind of place that can put a spring in your step.

Whether you're developing game mechanics, keeping our players safe, testing our products or sponsoring one of the UK's biggest TV shows, how high and how far you bounce really is up to you.

What do we offer? 💰

We champion a culture of inclusivity, flexibility, personal development, and mental wellbeing!

As well as a salary that will be more than agreeable for you, we offer market leading benefits such as quarterly bonus, tombola merch, free breakfast and lunches in the office, private healthcare, hybrid working and much more.

You can find out more about our benefits and what it's like to work for us here.

Sounds great! What will I be doing? 🔎

As an Animator for the Game Studio, you will be responsible for creating bespoke animations and other real time visual content for our HTML5 games.

As a Senior within the team, you will also be responsible for supporting and mentoring more junior members of the team, maintaining, and developing the Game Studio animation and asset pipeline, and researching and developing new animation techniques and technologies.

You will work closely with our Product, R&D, and development teams to develop engaging visuals, and contribute to the various creative aspects of our game production process.

The successful candidate will work with our Game Studio teams to create real time animations and visual content for our games. To raise the bar and set a high standard for the rest of the Media team. To mentor and coach others in the team to achieve their best work.



What will I be doing? (But in bullet points) 🧐

• Create animations for the games that are both immersive and engaging.
• Structuring and coordination of an asset delivery pipeline to serve the game studio.
• Technical mentoring of junior members of the team.
• Optimise game assets for mobile devices.
• Collaborate with other members of the game development team to create a cohesive and polished product.
• Facilitate and run critique and functional meetings.
• Work with the R&D team to understand their vision.
• Produce prototype videos of game ideas or mechanics.
  
  

What does "good" look like for us? 😇

• Excellent knowledge of animation principles
• In depth understanding of digital animation production software and tools
• Strong understanding of an iterative approach to work
• Strong stakeholder management
• Strong understanding of optimisation of assets for mobile platforms
• Strong technical mentoring/coaching skills
• Adobe suite knowledge
  
  

We would love you to have the following... but it's not essential 🤷‍♂️

• Leadership experience.
• Video editing and production.
• 3d animation/modelling
• Understanding of rigging.
• Graphic design knowledge.
• Experience creating animation tools, middleware of software.
• Storyboarding/Thumbnailing.