Rive Animator & Illustrator

About the Role

We’re looking for a Rive Animator & Illustrator to bring our mascot Milo and the Mathspace experience to life through expressive motion, character animation, and interactive design.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the emotional heartbeat of the Mathspace product from Milo’s encouraging gestures and playful emotes to animated interfaces that make learning feel more fun, personal, and rewarding.

The ideal candidate is a skilled illustrator and animator with deep expertise in Rive and vector-based illustration (Adobe Illustrator). You’ll collaborate closely with our product experience team to design, animate, and systemize motion assets that scale across Mathspace’s ecosystem.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

🎬 Character Animation & Illustration

• Design, rig, and animate Milo across a wide range of emotes, actions, and celebrations.
• Create and maintain a reusable animation library supporting multiple contexts (learning, feedback, reward, and seasonal events).
• Illustrate and rig Milo outfit and accessory variations aligned with gamification themes (shop, expedition, classroom, etc.).
• Evolve Milo’s animation language to reflect emotional nuance, encouragement, and humour.

🕹️ Gamification & Interactive Design

🎨 Content Creation & Cross-Team Support

⚙️ Systems & Collaboration

Skills & Experience

Essential

Desirable

Who You Are

You’re a creative technologist who loves using motion and character to make digital experiences feel alive. You care deeply about how art and animation can make learning fun, rewarding, and emotionally resonant. You’ll play a pivotal role in expanding Mathspace’s creative capabilities helping us grow from a high school focused product into one that inspires primary through secondary students to learn with confidence and joy.

💡 Business Case Summary

Why This Role Matters

Mathspace is investing in the emotional and motivational layer of the learning experience. To support our mission of making mathematics more engaging, we need dedicated expertise in illustration and animation to :

In a full time capacity the role would also support

Expected Outcomes

What this role is not

This role is not designed for Illustration of content that’s primary purpose is to be static e.g. print textbook content. They will sit across product and brand design with primary squad engagement with Elephant.

Benefits

What We Offer