Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality gameplay animation for playable characters, creatures, and others with a focus on locomotion and creature behavior.
• Create responsive, stylized animation that delivers satisfying gameplay and memorable character performances.
• Implement, iterate, and polish gameplay animation in the game engine
• Work within Animation Blueprints, state machines, and gameplay systems to support responsive gameplay and reliable animation behavior.
• Partner with designers to prototype and iterate on gameplay animation, using playtesting and feedback to improve responsiveness, readability, and feel.
• Collaborate with technical artists and engineers to improve animation workflows and runtime behavior.
• Investigate and research emergent game animation technologies
• Collaborate with character artists to ensure animation supports the visual direction and personality of characters and creatures.
• Help establish animation standards and maintain a high quality bar across gameplay animation.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience creating gameplay animation for shipped games.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating responsive, stylized gameplay animation, including action character and creature animation.
• Experience creating gameplay animation for both humanoid characters and creatures.
• Experience implementing gameplay animation in game engines such as Unreal
• Strong understanding of animation principles, body mechanics, timing, weight, and appealing stylized motion.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with designers, engineers, technical artists, and fellow animators.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Unreal Control Rig
• Experience maintaining and editing Animation Blueprints and animation state machines.
• Experience working with Motion Matching systems.
• Experience with gameplay animation features such as Motion Warping, runtime IK, or procedural animation.
• Experience creating cinematic or narrative animation using Unreal Sequencer or similar tools.
• Experience developing action games, multiplayer games, and/or open world games.

Our Perks:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

• Deliver outstanding customer support via phone calls, chats, and emails;
• Address customer inquiries;
• Build strong and lasting customer relationships;
• Keep up with evolving tools and technology;
• Handle sensitive customer data with care and security;
• Apply the latest and greatest customer happiness practices;
• Maintain deep understanding of client solutions and meet KPI;
• Support internal teams to resolve operational challenges.

• Ecxellent English and Spanisgh communication skills (at least C1 for both speaking and writing);
• At least 6 months of experience in customer support role;
• Experience with CRM systems;
• Basic MS Office profieciency;
• Strong analytical thinking and research skills;
• Positive, proactive and responsible attitude;
• Personal computer (at least 8Gb of RAM) with a stable internet connection (minimum 50 Mbps–download and 40 Mbps–upload).

• Fixed schedule: Monday–Friday, 11 AM–7 PM CDT;
• Opportunity to cooperate fully remotely;
• Inclusive international environment;
• Compensation in USD;
• Rewards for referring friends;
• Balance between project workload and personal time, but also – internal health policy;
• Responsive leadership interested in your development and long-lasting cooperation;
• Greenhouse conditions for self-development;
• A culture built on trust, with no time-tracking requirements.

What is Direct Hiring?

Why this role?

What you will do as a German-speaking Operations Associate (Direct Hiring)

• Own end-to-end project management for global hiring operations, ensuring compliance and efficiency at every stage.
• Simplify complex operational or financial concepts into clear, actionable steps for clients and internal teams.
• Proactively manage client workflows with precision, from onboarding to payroll coordination, while maintaining a “helicopter view” of priorities.
• Adapt quickly to shifting regulations, client needs, or market dynamics in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Build trust through transparent communication, resolving escalations with empathy and professionalism.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to innovate and improve our operational framework.

What we are looking for&

• 3–5 years of operations experience in HR, payroll, or global workforce management (startup/SaaS background is a plus).
• Proven ability to manage projects from A-to-Z, with strong follow-up and organizational skills.
• Calm under pressure: You adapt quickly, prioritize effectively, and thrive in ambiguity.
• A simplifier at heart: you translate complex processes or messages into clear, actionable steps.
• Startup DNA: Ownership mentality, rapid learning agility, and comfort with a wide-scope, ‘company-within-a-company’ role.
• Fluent English and German (written and spoken) is essential.

Desirable (but not required):

• Familiarity with international labor laws or payroll systems.
• Experience scaling operations in hyper-growth environments.
• Additional European languages (Portuguese, Spanish, or Italian)

Our benefits and perks&

• Global, remote, and thriving: We're a global team of talented individuals spread across 26 countries. Our WorkFlex program lets you work from anywhere, anytime. Whether it's a beachside office or a cosy home office, the choice is yours.
• Your well-being is our priority: We know mental health matters, which is why we offer a dedicated Well-Being Day—a full day off just to recharge and relax.
• Get fit and stay active: Whether it’s yoga, weightlifting, or a quick jog—work out on your terms, at a discount with our subsidised gym memberships.
• Learn, grow, and develop: We believe in constant growth. With our Training & Development Allowance, you’ll have all the opportunities you need to keep expanding your skills and knowledge.
• Stay connected: Take part in exciting annual team meetups!
• Diversity is our superpower: We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Responsibilities:

• Be the rendering expert of the team
• Help build the engine technology that powers one of our new AAA games
• Deeply understand how rendering systems are interlinked and proactively work across departments to shepherd best practices and advise on all things rendering-related
• Work collaboratively with the art team to help realize the overall vision of the game
• Work to monitor and increase the performance of the game client
• Build, implement, and improve tools for artists across multiple platforms
• Work to resolve pipeline issues and to identify areas for improvement

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional programming experience as a rendering engineer
• 2+ years experience as a technical lead
• Experience working with various game engines (i.e. Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• BS or equivalent experience
• Familiarity working in an agile environment
• Experience with multithreaded programming
• Experience working on an MMO

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with working with and extending tools like Maya
• Expert in low-level optimization of C++
• Experience with asset pipelines, version control, and data-driven rendering architectures
• Experience with Nanite
• Experience with procedural content generation tools (i.e. Houdini, UE5 PCG, etc.)

Our Perks:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

You Will

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of software engineers building the in-game text chat platform, setting a high bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and career growth.
• Own the technical vision and multi-quarter roadmap for real-time text messaging, balancing new product capabilities against scale, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Drive the architecture and evolution of messaging systems that reliably deliver billions of messages per day at low latency to a global, cross-platform audience.
• Partner with product and design to shape a compelling communication experience — treating chat as a product, not just infrastructure — and translate ambiguous goals into concrete plans and shipped features.
• Collaborate closely with Trust & Safety, Policy, and ML teams to ensure every messaging experience is safe and civil by design for a young, global user base.
• Establish strong engineering practices around quality, observability, on-call health, and operational excellence for systems that must always be available.
• Communicate clearly and influence across the organization — with peers, leadership, and cross-functional partners — to align teams behind a shared direction.

You Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing and growing engineering teams.
• A track record of building and shipping consumer-facing products at scale — ideally messaging, communications, social, or other real-time systems.
• Strong product intuition: you make thoughtful tradeoffs between user experience, technical complexity, and speed, and you care about what you ship, not just how it's built.
• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a strong grasp of reliability, latency, and the realities of running high-throughput services in production.
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and retain strong engineers, and to build healthy, high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with a history of driving alignment across product, design, and engineering.
• A bias toward action and a comfort with ambiguity, especially at high scale.

You Might Also Have

• Experience with real-time messaging protocols, presence systems, or high-fanout delivery infrastructure.
• Background in trust & safety, content moderation, or safety-critical systems.
• Experience building communication or social features for large, global, or youth audiences.
• Familiarity with cross-platform (mobile, console, desktop) product development.