// Open Role at Endless Studios
Join Endless Studios to bring characters to life for an animated short film. This contract role, open to mid or senior animators, focuses on creating expressive, story-driven movement.
About Endless Studios:
Endless Studios is a global, youth game-making studio and learning community on a mission to help learners move from players to creators - building real games, portfolios, and future-ready skills. Creators collaborate with industry mentors and peers around the world, contributing to community-led game projects and gaining the hands-on experience that opens doors to jobs across the broader digital economy. We have operations globally and work with schools, universities, game studios, and strategic partners to make creation through game making accessible to everyone.
About the Role:
Our global game-making community guides learners from player to creator to contributor to career-ready. You'll build and evolve our Community Web Platform to serve a wide ecosystem of stakeholders, including learners, college partners like ASU, and game studios. As Head of Product, you will own the platform thesis and roadmap, design contribution loops that drive participation and belonging, and translate cross-ecosystem needs into capabilities like credentials, APIs, and learning orchestration. Your role is to synthesize these diverse needs into coherent platform strategy and prioritize ruthlessly across stakeholders.
Our ideal candidate is a highly experienced and proven leader. This role is focused on platform strategy and hands-on product management and building, including cross-functional influence rather than building a large product management team. You'll drive impact through your expertise, stakeholder partnerships, and product leadership rather than through direct reports.
You will operate across regions, pilot and scale playbooks, and communicate a clear narrative that aligns universities, studios, funders, and learners.
Key Responsibilities:
What You Bring:
10+ years in product management with experience in scaled online education platforms, ideally with a significant community-driven experiences for learners - you understand how to build the features and systems that make online communities thrive at scale.
Ecosystem builder with a track record taking a product from single use case to multi-party platform/marketplace at meaningful scale.
AI-fluent: proven AI fluency and sees AI as a participation and agency amplifier.
Strategic product leadership: Operates at the intersection of business strategy and product execution - defining problems the organization should solve, not just how to solve assigned problems. Comfortable zooming from long-term platform vision to immediate execution decisions.
Technical depth (non-coding): comfortable steering platform architecture trade-offs, integrations, credentials/assessment, and trust frameworks.
Cross-cultural operator comfortable as part of a distributed, 24/7 team and competent communication across time zones.
Systems thinker able to strategize and deliver across multi-stakeholder platforms where partners have competing needs.
Open source fluency (nice-to have): Understanding of how open source communities develop software and the cultural practices that make them work - contributions, governance, transparency, community-driven development.
Responsible for bringing characters to life through expressive and believable movement that supports the story and emotional tone of the film. Works closely with the Animation Director to deliver performances that align with the creative vision and maintain consistency in style and quality. Uses timing, posing, and acting skills to create dynamic, story-driven animation within production deadlines. Open to mid or senior level animators (UK or South Africa preferred).