Joining Razer will place you on a global mission to revolutionize the way the world games. Razer is a place to do great work, offering you the opportunity to make an impact globally while working across a global team located across 5 continents. Razer is also a great place to work, providing you the unique, gamer-centric #LifeAtRazer experience that will put you in an accelerated growth, both personally and professionally.
Job Responsibilities :The Senior Character Designer conceives and leads the creation of new avatars from the ground up (including the identity, backstory, emotional register, visual world). This role owns how the avatars look, moves, and express themselves. Directs the full visual pipeline from concept art through animation to marketplace skins. Work with an external production studio to develop assets and align with internal narrative teams to ensure the characters feel right when it comes to life in our software.This creative leadership role will help in the setup of the vision for specific avatar companion characters and their visual identity.
Job Responsibilities
- Character conception: Define new companion avatars: who they are, their identity, backstory, emotional signature, worldview, role in the user's life, and aesthetic world. Produce character bibles that serve as the canonical reference for all downstream work (AI personality tuning, voice direction, visual design, animation, skins). Ensure each new companion avatar fills a distinct archetype gap in the roster and passes the product's four-lens evaluation (psychology, relationship, product, character).
- Visual design direction: Own the visual identity of each companion avatar (appearance, silhouette, color language, signature details, wardrobe logic). Create or direct concept art, mood boards, and reference packages. Ensure visual identity reinforces personality (a avatar character should look like who they are).
- Animation direction: Define animation requirements for each companion avatar: idle behavior, conversational gestures, emotional expressions, attention cues, signature moves. Produce animation briefs that communicate personality through movement. How does this specific avatar stands, reacts, listens, and celebrates. Ensure animation is distinct per avatar character, not shared from a generic library.
- Skin and marketplace creative: Conceive skin options across tiers (recolors, themed outfits, full transformations). Ensure every skin is personality-coherent — it should feel like the avatar character chose this look. Work with the content release schedule to plan skin pipelines, seasonal themes, and avatar character launch bundles. Direct themed drops that work across the roster.
- Studio management: Work with the external production house/studio for asset development. Translate character and skin concepts into production-ready briefs. Review deliverables against character bibles and visual standards. Hold quality on everything that ships.
- Character validation: Review companion avatar character behavior in the engine to validate that personality and identity feel consistent with the character as designed. Flag mismatches between the character bible and the live experience. This is a review and direction role, not hands-on trait tuning — the AI/ML team handles implementation, but this role is the quality bar for whether the result feels right.
Qualifications
- Background in character design, art direction, or creative direction — ideally in games, animation, or interactive entertainment where characters are products, not illustrations.
- Thinks in both identity and visuals. Can articulate who a character is (values, emotional register, role in someone's life) and what they look like — and why those two things must be coherent.
- Experience directing external studios or production houses. Comfortable writing briefs, reviewing work, and holding quality across a pipeline they don't personally execute.
- Understands that avatar characters are different from game characters. The user isn't playing as the character; they are avatar companion characters. Visual and character design must serve attachment and trust, not spectacle.
- Opinionated about animation as character expression. Believes idle behavior and subtle motion are as important as hero poses.
- Comfortable reviewing AI-generated conversation to assess whether an avatar character "feels right"; even if they're not responsible for configuring the system.
Education & Experience
BA/BS from an accredited educational institution or equivalent experience.
Travel Requirements
Normally, no travel required.
Razer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, better products, and a stronger culture. We are committed to providing an inclusive, respectful, and fair workplace for every employee across all the countries we operate in. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, ancestry, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under local laws. Where needed, we provide reasonable accommodations - including for disability or religious practices - to ensure every team member can perform and contribute at their best.
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Skills Required
- Background in character design, art direction, or creative direction
- Ability to define identity, backstory, emotional register, and visual world for characters
- Experience creating character bibles, concept art, mood boards, and animation briefs
- Experience directing external production studios and writing production-ready briefs
- Understanding of avatar companion design (attachment/trust-driven) versus game character spectacle
- Strong opinion and experience with animation as character expression (idle behavior, gestures, expressions)
- Comfortable reviewing AI-generated conversation and assessing character 'feel' (not implementation)
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
- Experience in games, animation, or interactive entertainment
Razer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Razer and has not been reviewed or approved by Razer.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage options include medical plan choices, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, and mental health/EAP, indicating solid core coverage. Global leave and healthcare frameworks are described, reinforcing consistency across locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching and immediate vesting in some cases supports long‑term savings. This adds tangible value to the core total rewards package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Free in‑office lunches on several weekdays and notable employee discounts on company gear enhance day‑to‑day value. Volunteering time and donation matching further complement lifestyle and purpose‑oriented needs.
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What We Do
Razer™ is the world’s leading lifestyle brand for gamers. The triple-headed snake trademark of Razer is one of the most recognized logos in the global gaming and esports communities. With a fan base that spans every continent, the company has designed and built the world’s largest gamer-focused ecosystem of hardware, software and services. Razer’s award-winning hardware includes high-performance gaming peripherals and Blade gaming laptops. Razer’s software platform, with over 70 million users, includes Razer Synapse (an Internet of Things platform), Razer Chroma™ (a proprietary RGB lighting technology system), and Razer Cortex (a game optimizer and launcher). In services, Razer Gold is one of the world’s largest virtual credit services for gamers, and Razer Fintech is one of the largest online-to-offline digital payment networks in SE Asia. Founded in 2005 and dual-headquartered in Irvine and Singapore, Razer has 18 offices worldwide and is recognized as the leading brand for gamers in the USA, Europe and China. Razer is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 1337).
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