Mob Entertainment
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago.
Senior Lighting Artist
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago.
About Mob Entertainment
Mob Entertainment is the indie studio behind Poppy Playtime, the iconic horror puzzle franchise beloved by millions worldwide. We build worlds defined by atmosphere, tension, and visual craft — and lighting is at the heart of that experience.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Lighting Artist to join the Poppy Playtime team. You'll be responsible for crafting the atmospheric, dread-soaked lighting that defines the Playtime Co. experience. From flickering factory floors to pitch-black vents, you'll set the emotional tone of every space players enter — working closely with art direction, environment, and VFX teams to bring each chapter to life.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement optimized baked-lighting across all game environments, leveraging Unreal Engine’s GPU Lightmass workflows alongside selective stationary lighting to drive mood, tension, and narrative through light and shadow.
- Collaborate closely with environment, VFX, and art direction teams to ensure lighting is consistent with the visual vision of each chapter
- Develop and maintain lighting standards, style guides, and best-practice documentation for the team
- Optimize lighting setups for performance across target platforms without sacrificing visual quality
- Mentor junior and mid-level lighting artists, providing feedback and fostering a culture of craft and iteration
- Work with the Art Director to prototype new lighting looks, effects, and dynamic systems for key story beats
- Contribute to post-process pipeline development including bloom, lens flares, and color grading within Unreal Engine 5
- Participate in art reviews and actively engage in cross-discipline critique sessions
Requirements
- 10+ years of games industry experience with at least three shipped titles
- Expert-level proficiency in Unreal Engine 5 lighting and GPU Lightmass pipeline
- Strong understanding of real-world lighting, photography, and cinematography principles
- Proven ability to create horror, suspense, or atmospheric lighting styles
- Experience optimizing lighting for real-time performance on PC and console
- Solid communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the Poppy Playtime universe and its visual language
- Experience with dynamic lighting and scripted cinematic sequences
- Background in Environment Art or Cinematics
- Knowledge of color theory and LUT pipeline for semi-stylized, PBR games
- Experience mentoring or leading a lighting team
- Passion for the horror genre and atmospheric storytelling
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Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to info@mobentertainment.com
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Contract UI/UX Designer - Video Games
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago.
The Role
We’re looking for a Contract UI/UX Designer / UI Artist who can combine strong visual design skills with player-first thinking to craft intuitive, immersive, and visually striking user interfaces.
This role sits at the intersection of design, art, and gameplay. You’ll be responsible for both the user experience (flow, usability, clarity) and the visual execution (layout, motion, style) of in-game UI, helping ensure players can seamlessly engage with our worlds without breaking immersion.
*******MUST HAVE VIDEO GAME EXPERIENCE*******
What You’ll Do
- Design intuitive and engaging user experiences that improve player engagement and ease of use, including player flows, wireframes, and interaction models
- Prototype UI/UX solutions to test usability and player experience
- Ensure UI readability, accessibility, and responsiveness across platforms
- Create high-quality UI visuals that align with the game’s tone, style, and horror atmosphere
- Design clear and effective icons, symbols, and visual indicators to help players understand game mechanics, objectives, and feedback
- Own the design of complex, high-impact UI systems such as HUD, inventory management, and other in-game interfaces
- Drive the UI design workflow from wireframing and prototyping to creating art assets and supporting in implementation
- Work closely with game designers, programmers, and other team members to ensure that the UI/UX design is in harmony with the overall vision and mechanics of the game
- Create and maintain UI style guides, component libraries, and documentation
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years of experience in UI/UX design or UI art for games or interactive media
- Strong portfolio demonstrating both UX thinking and high-quality visual UI work
- Experience designing for games, including HUDs, menus, and interactive systems
- Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar
- Understanding of usability, player psychology, and interaction design principles
- Experience implementing UI in a game engine (Unreal Engine preferred)
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across disciplines
- Detail-oriented with a strong sense of visual hierarchy, typography, and layout
Nice to Have
- Experience working on horror or atmospheric games
- Motion design or UI animation skills
- Familiarity with Unreal Engine UMG and Blueprints
- Basic scripting or technical implementation knowledge
- Experience with live games or iterative UX improvements based on player feedback
- Understanding of accessibility standards in games
OUR CORE VALUES:
- Storytelling
- Quality
- Obsession
- Creativity
- Subversion
- Collaboration
- Scrappiness
EMPLOYEE EXPECTATIONS:
- Kindness
- Result-Oriented
- Autonomy
- Efficiency
- Humility
- Be real.
- Be weird.
#LI-Remote
Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to info@mobentertainment.com
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Game Director
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago.
As a Game Director, you’ll have the important mission to ensure that the game systems properly convey the creative vision and that the vision remains an integral part of the target player experience.
You will oversee the Poppy Franchise and work with all key stakeholders to ensure the overall vision and health of the franchise for many years to come. You will live and breathe the franchise.
You will also assist the VP, General Manager of Games and CCO in reaching the strategic design objectives set out for a project by guiding conceptual application in the game. While your designers focus on their areas of ownership, you’ll pay attention to the larger picture, overseeing the game’s overall outcome: progression, pace, balance, and – of course – quality.
You will ensure that all elements related to design work together cohesively to fit the intended experience and make it rich and fun.
What you’ll do
- Work with the VP, General Manager of Games and CCO to ensure that the game design meets the vision that was set out.
- Define best design methods for the project and inform the design team.
- Communicate quality and content expectations to the design team on a regular basis so that the systems take constraints onto account in order to ultimately create the optimum user experience for target players.
- Translate the rational game design elements into elements that can be used by the level design
- Support the level design lead in translating and deploying the game design elements into operable elements for the level designer.
- harmonize design across all departments, making sure design has ready answers and Jira requests for Engineering, Art, Sound, fx, etc so that the project does not run behind schedule.
- Work hand in hand with other director level positions on the team: Art, Engineering, and Production to insure smooth operations
- Reports to VP of Games and insure they and upper management is aware of the status of the project on a regular basis
- Analyzing the different aspects and objectives of the game and communicating them clearly to the creative teams
- Developing and implementing a global vision and creative foundations for the game (visual effects, theme, context, gameplay, etc…)
- Developing the creative vision of the game in line with the product vision
- Participating in the proposal development process aka brainstorming
- Participating in project follow-up meetings at all phases (pre-production, production, live)
- Writing clear documentation including required visual references
What you bring
- 4 + years of leadership experience in the video game industry (or other relevant experience): you’re a creative leader with a vision for the future of games
- 5 + years of Design experience in a lead or Management role
- Knowledge of Unreal and their limitations
- Familiarity with project management software (e.g. Jira)Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Effective cross-departmental communication: you have the know-how to comfortably communicate with all disciplines (programming, art, design, marketing, and so on)
- A highly collaborative and innovative spirit
- The ability to take technical and production feasibility into account when coming up with concepts
- Mentorship: you’re motivated to share your expertise to guide the next generation of creatives
- Autonomy in using presentation and design tools (e.g. PowerPoint, Photoshop, googleslides, etc.)
- A solid understanding of the market & a (fiery) passion for video games
What to send our way
- Your CV highlighting your education, experience, skills, and any games shipped
OUR CORE VALUES:
- Storytelling
- Quality
- Obsession
- Creativity
- Subversion
- Collaboration
- Scrappiness
EMPLOYEE EXPECTATIONS:
- Kindness
- Result-Oriented
- Autonomy
- Efficiency
- Humility
- Be real.
- Be weird.
#LI-Remote
Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to info@mobentertainment.com
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Senior Technical Animator
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio that is best known for our hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". This franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and our team is naturally expanding as our ambition expands. To give a taste of our brand's popularity, more than 100 billion YouTube views of Poppy Playtime related content have occured since the game's launch 4 years ago.
Mob Entertainment is a mid-sized game studio focused on crafting memorable, atmospheric, and emotionally impactful gameplay experiences. We specialize in immersive worlds where tension, storytelling, and player agency come together to create unforgettable moments. Our team develops primarily in Unreal Engine and collaborates using Jira and Confluence to ship high-quality games with production discipline and creative ambition.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Technical Animator to bridge the gap between animation and engineering in video games. In this role, you will design and maintain animation systems, develop tools and pipelines, and work closely with animators, designers, and engineers to ensure high-quality character movement and performance in-game.
You will help define animation workflows and technical standards while ensuring that animation assets integrate seamlessly into the game engine.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain animation systems, rigs, automated lip sync systems, and runtime solutions within the game engine.
- Build tools and pipelines that improve the efficiency of animation workflows.
- Collaborate with animators to ensure rigs, skeletons, and animation assets perform optimally in-game.
- Work with gameplay engineers to integrate animation features and systems.
- Optimize animation assets for performance, memory, and runtime stability.
- Troubleshoot and resolve animation and rigging issues across the pipeline.
- Support motion capture integration, retargeting, and procedural animation systems when needed.
- Establish and document best practices for animation pipelines and technical workflows.
- Mentor junior technical animators and support the broader animation team with technical challenges.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in technical animation or rigging within the video game industry.
- Strong experience with Unreal Engine game engine.
- Proficiency with Maya or similar DCC tools, including rigging and scripting workflows.
- Experience working with animation state machines, blend trees, and runtime animation systems.
- Understanding of character rigging, skinning, and deformation systems.
- Familiarity with Python, MEL, C++, or Blueprint scripting for tool and pipeline development.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex animation issues.
- Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-discipline with art, design, and engineering teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with motion capture pipelines and retargeting systems.
- Knowledge of rigging with unreal tooling, procedural animation with control rig, physics-based animation, or IK systems.
- Experience optimizing animation for console or PC performance constraints.
- Animation Experience doing animations
- Shipped at least one AAA or mid-sized studio game title.
- Experience developing animation tools or plugins.
#LI-remote
Mob Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to info@mobentertainment.com
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