Senior 2D Animator

Location: Remote US

Reports To: Creative Administrator, Security Awareness Training

Compensation Range: $110,000 to $130,000 base plus bonus and equity

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do:

The Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training product team is growing! Our team builds memorable security training lessons using animation and storytelling delivered through short videos that help individuals worldwide become aware of cybersecurity threats and tactics to prevent them.  As a Senior 2D Animator, you will work on bringing characters that star in these lessons to life and play a critical role in our animation studio as you work with other artists and animators to create an animated world of heroes, villains, and stories that educate everyone to stay safe against online threats. 

If you're excited about animation and teaching others, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Translate storyboards into animated videos in After Effects using assets created by the illustration team
• Work with the episode development team to create rich, funny, engaging stories
• Bring our cast of characters to life with a strong focus on personality and facial animation
• Maintain stylistic animation consistency within the Huntress episode universe by referencing previous episodes
• Maintain idiosyncratic character animation consistency for each character by referencing previous episodes
• Work alongside creative director, producer, and creative team to produce one animated episode per month (episode length approx. 9 minutes)
• Mentor junior animators, providing guidance and support to help them develop their skills
• Contribute creative ideas and solutions to enhance the overall storytelling and visual appeal of projects
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies for continuous improvement

What You Bring To The Team:

• Proficient in Adobe After Effects and character animation
• Basic understanding of Adobe Premiere is a plus/nice to have
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Illustrator
• Proficient in character rigging using After Effects
• Basic understanding of the DUIK plugin for After Effects
• Demonstrated ability to create a variety of walk cycles
• Must be able to create video content from a storyboard
• Ability to add humor that is directly reflected in animations

What We Offer: 

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans 
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
• Life and Disability insurance plans
• Stock options for all full-time employees 
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance 
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. 

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.  

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.

Accommodations: 

If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response. 

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