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Principal Product Designer, Robot Animation and Character, Fauna

Amazon· Amazon Design / Amazon Robotics
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New York, NY$162.6k - $284.6kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Fauna Robotics is building capable, safe, and delightful robots for everyday life. We are hiring a Principal Product Designer to animate our robots and build a consistent character, defining the robot's personality and expressive motion from concept to ship.

Responsibilities

  • Craft the robot's key performances — from concept and blocking through final motion — setting the character and the quality bar in the animation itself
  • Build the expressive motion vocabulary: locomotion styles, conversational gesture, emotional reactions, idle behavior, and the small moments that make a character feel alive
  • Define the robot's personality — its point of view, emotional range, and behavioral signature — and keep it consistent across every animation as the product evolves
  • Iterate on real hardware: test how a performance reads in person, from every angle, and refine timing and weight until it lands
  • Work with motion capture and reference where it helps, then adapt and refine performances for the robot's form factor and joint constraints
  • Capture character intent in animation-ready artifacts — performance references, motion studies, behavioral scripts, and concept videos — so the rest of the team can build on it

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of professional experience in character animation
  • A body of work — reel required — that demonstrates authorship of character and personality through motion: timing, weight, appeal, and performance
  • Mastery of animation craft across a range of characters and emotional registers, from broad performance to subtle, quiet moments
  • Experience carrying a character from concept through finished, polished animation
  • Ability to work within real production or technical constraints without losing the performance

Skills

Required:Character animationAnimation craftsmanship across characters and emotional registersConcept to finished animationHardware-aware animation
Nice to have:Motion captureCharacter definition for new product/franchise

Benefits

  • comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parential leave
  • sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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