About the Role
We're looking for a UX/Motion Designer to create high-quality, engaging animations and motion graphics for mobile game projects. This role is ideal for an experienced motion designer with a strong sense of timing, polish, and feel, who enjoys working on live products and collaborating closely with artists, product managers, and engineers. You’ll be responsible for producing and refining animation assets that elevate the visual quality of our games while supporting gameplay, usability, and performance. You bring strong artistic judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to take ownership of your work from concept through final implementation in-engine.
Responsibilities
- Produce high-quality 2D animations, VFX, and motion graphics for in-game features, live ops events, and content updates, using AI tools where they accelerate ideation, reference gathering, and iteration without compromising craft
- Maintain a consistent motion language across the game, partnering with Art Direction, Product, and Design to keep motion aligned with gameplay and player experience
- Create prototypes, references, and explorations for new features and events — bringing AI into early concepting and motion reference where it speeds the path to a strong direction
- Prepare production-ready animations optimised for mobile performance, and implement and tune them in-engine alongside engineers
- Collaborate with UI/UX artists on clear, readable, and engaging interface motion
- Iterate based on feedback, playtests, and live performance data, using AI to support scripting, post-production, and the less creative parts of the pipeline
- Support the marketing team on UA videos and playable ads, bringing the same craft bar to performance creative
- Develop and share AI-assisted workflows that integrate cleanly with After Effects, Spine 2D, and Unity, helping raise quality and velocity across the animation team
- Contribute to animation guidelines and support fellow animators through feedback and example-setting
Requirements
- 3-5 years as a Motion Designer or 2D Animator in games or interactive products, with a strong portfolio demonstrating animation quality, range, and feel
- Excellent animation fundamentals: timing, spacing, easing, anticipation, and follow-through
- Experience creating animations for mobile games, ideally in the casual or social casino space
- Proficiency with industry-standard tools: After Effects, Spine 2D, Photoshop, and Figma
- Hands-on experience with generative AI tools across the motion pipeline - LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT) and generative video/image tools (Runway, Kling, Sora, Midjourney, Luma) - with strong prompting skills and clear judgement about where AI adds value and where it doesn't
- Curiosity about emerging tools and a willingness to experiment, evaluate, and adopt new workflows as the landscape evolves
- Able to take ownership of tasks and deliver polished work with minimal supervision; strong collaborator and communicator
- Bonus: experience with in-engine animation implementation (Unity, DOTween, or similar), live ops content, and UA video or playable ad production
Skills
- After Effects
- Spine 2D
- Photoshop
- Figma
- Generative AI tools
- LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT)
- Generative video/image tools (Runway, Kling, Sora, Midjourney, Luma)
- Prompting skills
- Unity
- DOTween
Location
- Toronto
- Montreal
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Benefits
- 15 days holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Extra 5 days holiday for every 5 years of service
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- $500 a year Wellness Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program
- Generous parental leave policy
- Regular company events
- Continuous Professional Development opportunities
About the Company
- Tripledot Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.
- A multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.
- Portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users.
- Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.
- Building a company filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games.
- Ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world.
- This role will be working at our Clipwire Games studio.
- Clipwire Games is one of Canada's top grossing mobile game developers, and the creator of Monopoly: Bingo!, TPIR: Bingo! and Bingo Story.
- Founded in Toronto over 10 years ago, with tremendous success and poised for another decade of record growth.
- Studio is built on strong values, work ethic, and intelligent data driven growth.
- Work hard, have fun, innovate, and level-up every day.
- To work at Clipwire means becoming part of our future right now.
- Support, promote, and develop our team so that they can make great games.
Equal Opportunity
- Clipwire Games is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics.
- As part of our interview process, we may use AI-enabled tools to assist with note-taking and summarizing conversations. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and interviewers. They are not used to screen applications or make hiring decisions. All candidate evaluations and hiring decisions are made by people.
- This opening is for an existing vacancy.
- All legitimate Clipwire roles are only posted on our official careers page and LinkedIn and we do not conduct job interviews via messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram or others.
- We never ask for personal or financial information during interviews.
- Sensitive information is only ever requested after a formal written offer through official channels.
- Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing attack, and you should not engage.
- Our in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (tripledotstudios.com)
