ANIMATE THE WORLD'S MOST ICONIC CHARACTERS

Kindred is the fastest-growing AI companion startup in the world, with 7.7 million signups in 4 months. We're (the only) officially licensed AI company licensed to bring to life Hello Kitty, Pudgy Penguins, Teletubbies, LINE Friends, and 30+ iconic characters, becoming our daily companion-assistants that people genuinely fall in love with.

The Role

You'll work alongside our lead animator to make the most beloved characters on earth feel truly alive on people's screens. Every blink, idle sway, head tilt, and tail flick is yours to author. You'll be truly bringing to life global icons.

What You'll Do

Rig and animate characters in Spine 2D. Build and ship character skins, variations, and idle behaviors that feel handcrafted yet scale across millions of screens. Reach for After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator when the moment calls for it. Bake AI tools into your pipeline so you can iterate at speeds traditional studios can't touch, without ever flattening the soul of the character.

You Are

A Spine 2D wizard who treats animation principles like scripture but isn't precious about how the work gets made. Borderline allergic to stiff, lifeless motion. Obsessive about asset organization (clean rigs, named layers, clean exports). You've already integrated AI tools into your workflow because you understand that the animators who win this decade are the ones who 10x themselves.

What You Get

Unmatched creative latitude rigging the most beloved characters on earth, at the most exciting AI company in the world. Remote. Full-time.

Apply

We'll spend about 5 seconds looking at your CV. Instead, show us a rig you built this month, a character that breathes because of you, and why you're the only person who should be doing this job.