Rovio Entertainment

2D Artist

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Toronto, ON

Hybrid

70K-90K Annually

Mid level

Gaming • Esports

The Role

The 2D Artist will design characters, props, and environments for games, create polished assets, UI elements, and marketing artwork, ensuring visual cohesion.

Summary Generated by Built In

Rovio is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds - want to know more about Rovio as an employer? Click here.

Rovio Toronto is a human-scale studio of passionate gamers with a track record of building fresh, fun games with iconic brands. Our focus is mobile, with ambitions to grow beyond as new opportunities arise. Being small keeps us agile and gives everyone meaningful ownership. We value transparency and candour, empowering each other to do our best work, supported by a hybrid model and a strong sense of community.

We’re looking for a creative and versatile 2D Artist to join our vibrant Rovio Toronto team, creators of Angry Birds Bounce on Apple Arcade and an unannounced new project.

This role blends concept and production work: you’ll help design characters, props, and environments, while also creating polished in-game assets, UI elements, and marketing artwork. Beyond asset creation, you’ll play a key role in helping establish and refine the visual vision for the project, working with the Lead Artist and the rest of the team to ensure everything feels cohesive, on-brand, and engaging for players.

This is an open vacancy with a salary range of 70,000 - 90,000 CAD/year. At this stage, we are primarily focusing our search on candidates based in the local region.

Join us and help us build a culture of trust, passion, and innovation!

You will have impact and fun at work by:

Create concept art for characters, props, backgrounds, environments, and other game elements to support visual development
Produce polished 2D assets for use in-game, including UI elements, icons, and illustrations
Contribute to marketing and promotional artwork, ensuring consistency with the game’s brand and style
Work closely with the Lead Artist to maintain a unified visual direction and brand identity
Collaborate with artists, designers, and developers to provide references, paintovers, and asset support
Participate in reviews and incorporate feedback effectively

Experience and skills we are looking for:

3+ years of professional experience as a 2D artist, ideally in the games industry
Strong portfolio demonstrating skills in concept art, illustration, and polished production assets
Proficiency in industry-standard software (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate, or similar)
Ability to adapt to and work within an established brand/IP
Understanding of how 2D art supports the game production pipeline
Strong communication and collaboration skills

It would be nice if you also have the following skills:

A passion for video game development
Has shipped one or more mobile games
Experience working across multiple artistic disciplines such as 3d Modeling, animation, VFX, graphic design or motion graphics
Experience with storyboarding, animatics, or pre-visualization

AI is not used to screen, assess, or select applicants. We welcome applicants to use the name they want to be addressed by in the application form, regardless of whether it is their legal name.

At Rovio, we are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures. We are committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility. If you have any questions before applying, please write to us at [email protected].

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The Company

Espoo,

605 Employees

Year Founded: 2003

What We Do

Rovio Entertainment Ltd. is a global mobile-first games company that creates, develops and publishes mobile games, which have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Rovio is best known for the global Angry Birds brand, which started as a popular mobile game in 2009, and has since evolved from games to various entertainment, animations and consumer products in brand licensing. Rovio has produced The Angry Birds Movie (2016), and its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in 2019. The company offers multiple mobile games and has seven game studios – one in Espoo (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Barcelona (Spain), Montreal and Toronto (Canada), as well as a subsidiary in Izmir (Turkey) called Ruby Games. Most of the employees are based in Finland where Rovio is headquartered. In 2023, Sega Europe Limited acquired more than 90 percent of Rovio’s issued and outstanding shares, making Rovio a subsidiary of Sega