# Senior Production Artist

**Company:** [Huntress](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/huntress)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $110k – $120k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Game Design, Illustration, Storyboarding, After Effects, Interactive Media, Educational Technology, UI Design, Asset Production
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> Create visual assets, environments, and storyboards for interactive security awareness training simulations. Lead visual development of game-like learning experiences that teach cybersecurity skills through engaging, hands-on play.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Educational Game Experience Design
- Translate educational curriculum and learning objectives into playable game mechanics and risk/reward systems
- Define the moment-to-moment feel, pacing, reward systems, and difficulty curves to keep students engaged without sacrificing educational rigor
- Contribute to playtesting by identifying usability friction, confusing feedback, and visual clarity issues for implementable design improvements
- Define engagement metrics, retention rates, and learning outcomes to evaluate the game's effectiveness after launch

### Illustration
- Support simulation and episode production by creating production-ready visual assets for interactive training content, including characters, props, environments, UI elements, icons, and in-world objects
- Translate creative briefs, learning goals, and product requirements into clear visual concepts, storyboards, layouts, and production assets
- Partner with product managers, security researchers, writers, product designers, animators, and creative leads to shape experiences that balance fun, clarity, and instructional value
- Own asset workstreams from concept to handoff, keeping files organized, reusable, and easy for cross-functional teammates to implement
- Help establish and maintain visual systems, patterns, and documentation that create consistency across episodes, simulations, and future interactive formats
- Identify opportunities to improve production quality and team velocity through better asset planning, reusable templates, and ethical AI-assisted concepting workflows

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in game design or educational technology, interactive media, illustration, animation, or adjacent visual design roles, with a portfolio that shows shipped or production-ready work
- Experience creating art for online-based interactive games, simulations, e-learning, or other systems where visuals need to support user actions and state changes
- Strong illustration and asset-production skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, with the ability to create polished, scalable assets in an established style
- Ability to take loosely defined ideas and turn them into production-ready concepts, layouts, and asset libraries with minimal oversight
- A strong eye for visual consistency, readability, hierarchy, and environmental storytelling across characters, worlds, and interfaces
- Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, iterative environment and contributing thoughtful feedback that improves the final experience

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with storyboarding, scene planning, or pre-visualization for interactive or animated content
- Familiarity with game design principles such as feedback loops, player guidance, challenge framing, reward moments, and moment-to-moment visual clarity
- Experience with After Effects, motion workflows, or handoff to animation
- Experience using AI-assisted creative tools responsibly for early ideation, variation, or background development
- An online portfolio is required for this position

## Compensation & Benefits
- Compensation Range: $110,000 to $120,000 base plus bonus and equity
- 100% remote work environment
- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
- Life and Disability insurance plans
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
- Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

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