uken
Junior Artist - Remote
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Junior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 12 hours ago
PhotoshopGraphic DesignAfter EffectsMotion DesignPremiere ProVideo ProductionCollaboration
About the role
- Uken is looking for a Junior Artist to join our team.
- You'll work closely with performance marketers, motion designers, and producers to edit engaging ad creatives, iterate on performance-driven concepts, and help bring campaigns to life across multiple advertising platforms.
- This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their creative career who is passionate about video editing, mobile gaming, and digital advertising, and wants to grow their skills in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more.
Requirements
- 1-2 years of experience in video editing, motion graphics, advertising production, or a related creative field (internships and personal projects welcome)
- Proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro, and familiarity with Adobe After Effects and Photoshop
- Strong understanding of pacing, storytelling, typography, and visual composition
- Experience working remotely - collaborating, iterating and receiving direction in written or video meeting format
Skills
- This is an 8 month contract backfilling a short-term leave
Compensation
- Competitive salary, fully remote work
Company info
- Uken builds games that people love.
- Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy!
- World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month.
- Ava's Manor Solitaire Story is a relaxing tripeaks solitaire game where players renovate the manor while uncovering mysterious clues as a romantic love story develops between our cast of characters.
- We consider ourselves data-driven designers, technologists, and artists.
- We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data-driven mindset.
- We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly, and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies.
- We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries but with a focus on practical use.
- We take entertainment seriously.
- Uken welcomes applications from racialized people, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and people from gender and sexually diverse groups who would contribute to the further diversification of our team.
- Uken is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities.
- If you need assistance or accommodation for any part of the selection process due to a disability, please contact us at jobs@uken.com.
- Important: Please note that Uken emails will never come from a Gmail or other personal account.
- We will never ask for personal information (SIN, banking details, or ID) until a formal job offer is made.
- Job offers are made after a formal evaluation process is complete which includes interviews.
- If you receive a suspicious message, you can verify its legitimacy at jobs@uken.com.
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