Jobs at Glitch Productions

Own full-cycle global recruitment across animation, art, technology, and gaming roles, including freelance, contract, and full-time hiring. Build talent pipelines, manage agencies, negotiate offers, benchmark salaries, maintain ATS data, report recruiting metrics, and improve candidate experience. The role also supports employer value proposition development and implements automation across sourcing, screening, scheduling, communications, and offer workflows.

Leads global franchise strategy, brand expansion, licensing, partnerships, and commercial growth for an animation studio’s intellectual property portfolio. Owns long-term roadmaps, cross-category collaborations, franchise P&L, licensing targets, royalty structures, brand consistency, audience engagement, and lifecycle management across entertainment, gaming, consumer products, publishing, live events, and digital platforms.

Create high-quality 3D visual effects (smoke, fire, water, explosions, magic, environment) for teasers, trailers and marketing. Develop, integrate and optimize simulations into the production pipeline, collaborate with directors and artists, implement feedback, troubleshoot technical issues, maintain organized files, and deliver polished work on deadline.

Leads the 2D animation team and establishes the project’s animation style, performance tone, and visual quality. Provides creative direction, draw-overs, reviews, and feedback across storyboards, animatics, roughs, breakdowns, and final animation. Mentors animators, coordinates with design, layout, compositing, technical, and production teams, troubleshoots pipeline issues, and improves workflows, guides, pose libraries, and timing documentation.

Supports the COO through calendar and meeting management, travel coordination, briefing preparation, action-item follow-up, and selective meeting representation. Coordinates cross-functional work with department heads, manages COO-sponsored projects, tracks budgets and vendor relationships, runs all-hands meetings, supports internal communications, and improves operational processes and documentation. The role requires discretion, strong organisation, proactive follow-through, and confidence working with senior leadership in a fast-paced animation studio.

Manage development for a slate of animated (3D/2D) shows: recruit core leadership, run parallel workstreams (scripts, casting, visual development), track budget/schedule, deliver proof-of-concept vertical slices, and manage handoffs into production while keeping executives informed.

Manage supplier sourcing for consumer products, collectibles, and apparel. Develop sourcing strategies, evaluate and manage suppliers, negotiate terms, ensure product quality and regulatory compliance, support product development on materials and manufacturing, set inspection and QA metrics, and coordinate cross-functionally to ensure timely delivery and cost-effective production.

Lead and own the 2D pipeline: design, build and maintain tools (primarily for Toon Boom Harmony), integrate with production tracking, automate scene setup and versioning, troubleshoot 2D technical issues, document workflows, and establish scalable standards while collaborating with artists and the wider tech team.

Lead and scale global consumer product strategy and team for original and licensed merchandise. Own product development lifecycle, systems, operations, and data; streamline workflows; coordinate with Brand, Marketing, Sales, Logistics and Legal; track sales and optimise inventory, margins, and product launches.

First in-house legal hire to build Glitch's global legal infrastructure: negotiate and draft content, distribution and platform agreements; manage employment, cross-border hiring and entity structuring; protect and enforce IP; lead risk, privacy and dispute responses; and manage outside counsel and legal policies across production, finance and people functions.