# Lead Animator

WHAT’S THE ROLE? Are you passionate about crafting compelling character and creature animation that elevates gameplay? At Frontier, animation is at the heart of our storytelling. We’re looking for an experienced Lead Animator to helm one of our Animation teams on an exciting new project. WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING Own animation progress, delivery, and quality on the assigned project. Lead and organise a large animation team, delegating meaningful ownership, balancing workload, and maintaining appropriate oversight. Set a clear animation vision, quality bar and delivery plan, with defined priorities, responsibilities and dependencies. Work closely with Production on scope, estimates, schedules, capacity, milestones and delivery risks. Coordinate with Project Direction and discipline leadership to align Animation with wider project goals and dependencies. Identify and communicate risks, assumptions and mitigations to Project Direction and studio senior management. Manage team performance and delivery expectations through timely, direct, and constructive feedback. Guide character and creature animation practice, engine implementation and creative standards across internal and externa

- **Id**: 3756277
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/frontier-developments-lead-animator>
- **Role**: Hospitality
- **Role family**: Hospitality
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T14:39:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T01:45:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3297
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: PC Games, Game Development

## Company

- **Id**: 51610
- **Name**: Frontier Developments
- **Domain**: frontier.co.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/frontier-developments>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Unity** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T17:04:07Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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