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Freelance Illustrator

Frictionless design for growing businesses. Dedicated team of top designers, fast turnarounds & magical DesignOps tech.

Superside

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We are seeking skilled Illustrators specialized in illustration for animation, with a strong focus on storyboarding and character illustration. This role supports creative and AI training use cases that require clear visual storytelling, expressive characters, and animation-ready illustrations. The ideal candidate is comfortable translating concepts, scripts, or prompts into structured visual narratives and illustration assets that are designed to be animated.

Key responsibilities

  • Create a wide range of illustrations, including: Storyboards to define sequences, pacing, and visual flow, character illustrations with clear expressions, poses, and consistency & supporting visual elements (props, environments, key frames) as needed
  • Translate briefs, scripts, or references into clear visual storytelling.
  • Maintain visual consistency across assets. Follow creative guidelines, style references, and client specifications.
  • Conduct self-quality checks to ensure clarity, consistency, and professional-grade o

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Strong illustration skills with a focus on storyboarding and character design.
  • Excellent design skills and understanding of modern style conventions and techniques.
  • Solid understanding of: Visual storytelling and sequencing, composition, perspective, and framing & character anatomy, expression, and movement
  • Proficiency with digital illustration tools (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate, or similar).
  • Ability to work from written briefs, references, or loose concepts.
  • High attention to detail and consistency.
  • Ability to balance creativity with structured requirements.
  • Nice to Have

  • Experience working with animation or motion design teams.
  • Familiarity with animation pipelines and handoff requirements.
  • Background in animation studios, motion branding, or digital storytelling.
  • Experience contributing to AI training datasets or structured creative tasks.
  • Portfolio showcasing storyboards and character-driven illustration work.

Important Application Notes

Application Process: Successful candidates who meet our technical requirements will receive an email detailing the next steps.
Selection Timeline: Due to the high volume of applications, we are only able to contact shortlisted candidates. If you do not receive an update from us within four (4) weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful at this time.

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About Superside

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Frictionless design for growing businesses. Dedicated team of top designers, fast turnarounds & magical DesignOps tech.

Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams—from everyday production design work to large-scale strategic design solutions.

Trusted by 300+ businesses including Facebook, PUMA, Amazon, Shopify, Kiva and more, Superside makes design hassle-free for Marketing, Creative and Product Design teams. Visit www.superside.com for ongoing design help.

About Superside

Superside is a tech-enabled design company that delivers beautiful design at scale to scale-ups and enterprise teams — from everyday production work to large-scale strategic design solutions.

Our Mission

To create more equal economic opportunities globally by finding and growing the world’s best creative talent.

How we're going to make that happen

Superside is a fully remote tech-enabled design company targeting the very best designers and project managers from top-tier agencies anywhere in the world. Today, we have 160 employees in over 50 countries.

We work with our clients through our leading in-house Design Operations platform, enabling seamless collaboration and efficient execution across all timezones.

Our clients are primarily US-based brands, and include Amazon, Puma, Spotify, Salesforce, Twitch Prime, S&S Activewear, Cisco, and others, as well as scale-ups and future industry leaders.

We aim to be the best place for ambitious international designers to quickly learn and grow their careers.

Our Investors

Superside is backed by Sam Altman (former president of Y Combinator), Geoff Ralston (president of Y Combinator), Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail), Y Combinator, Slack Fund, Freestyle Capital, High Alpha Capital and Alliance Ventures.

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In Superside we strongly value meritocracy, long-term development and professional growth. We encourage and offer training in new skills and certification in new verticals, providing continuous learning opportunities, constant mentoring, leadership development, and certification in our global Academy to ensure everyone has the right tools to grow and succeed.

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