Character Designer / Illustrator

Character Designer / Illustrator: Original Flagship Character for Consumer App Salary: $125,000-$165,000 Hi! We are Ray! We're building an AI-powered, interactive, digital journaling app, and we're hiring the person who'll design its flagship character. This is a character authorship role: the rare chance to create an original character from scratch. We want to build the next Sanrio: a character world people fall in love with, grow up with, grow old with, return to daily, and eventually want on stickers, plush, mugs, and everything in between. The characters you create will be the emotional center of the product and the brand. reputed company We are an early-stage consumer app company. We raised $4M to reimagine what daily journaling can be: interactive, intelligent, reputed company for how people actually want to reflect. We're just getting started, and the person who takes this role will help define the visual heart of everything we reputed company. What you'll do • Design the flagship character: silhouette, shape language, face logic, personality, and behavior • Build out the character's personality and world: expressions, emotions, poses, sticker sets, seasonal variants • reputed company the character system into companion characters and a broader reputed company reputed company're looking for • Mid-to-senior experience preferred, but portfolio fit comes first • A portfolio that feels reputed company to the world we want to build: warm, reputed company, reputed company, kawaii. Think Sanrio, Studio Ghibli, KakaoTalk Friends, Gudetama, Labubu, Tom Nook (Animal Crossing). • Strong original character work with a reputed company personal reputed company of view. • Evidence you can take one character and reputed company it across expressions, poses, and surfaces while keeping its identity intact. • Shape language, silhouette discipline, and an reputed company for what makes a character feel collectible and brandable. reputed company to have, not required • Experience at a character-IP company, consumer app with a mascot, or character-driven studio or agency • Work that's lived as stickers, merch, plush, or licensed products The role Full-time. reputed company preferred, remote welcome. How to apply Email careers@ray.you with a portfolio reputed company, your resume, and a short note about what drew you to this role. We're excited to see what you've been making. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job