Senior Character Designer (Gaming)

Location: Singapore

Company

Razer develops gamer-focused products and software for a global gaming audience.

What you will do

• Define companion avatars, including their identities, backstories, emotional signatures, worldviews, roles, and aesthetic worlds.
• Create character bibles, concept art, mood boards, and reference packages that establish canonical visual and personality direction.
• Direct animation requirements, including idle behavior, conversational gestures, emotional expressions, attention cues, and signature movements.
• Develop personality-coherent avatar skins, themed outfits, transformations, seasonal concepts, and marketplace launch bundles.
• Manage an external production studio by preparing briefs, reviewing deliverables, and maintaining visual quality standards.
• Validate avatar behavior in the engine and identify inconsistencies between the character bible and the live experience.

Requirements

• Professional background in character design, art direction, or creative direction, preferably in games, animation, or interactive entertainment.
• Ability to connect character identity, emotional qualities, visual design, and the character’s role in the user’s life.
• Experience directing external studios or production houses, writing briefs, reviewing work, and managing production quality.
• Strong understanding of avatar companion characters, attachment, trust, and personality-driven design.
• Ability to direct animation as a form of character expression, including subtle motion and idle behavior.
• Comfort reviewing AI-generated conversations to assess whether an avatar feels consistent with its designed personality; AI/ML implementation is handled by another team.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month full-time contract.
• Global collaboration across a team located on five continents.
• Normally no travel is required.
• Inclusive and respectful workplace with reasonable accommodations where needed.