Illustrator / Character Concept Artist

This full-time role develops settings and initial concepts for characters appearing in games. The work is carried out in coordination with planners, illustrators, and designers, and requires attention to game and entertainment content.

Required qualifications include experience managing data with Photoshop and Illustrator and the ability to edit images. Candidates must also have experience preparing documents with Excel and PowerPoint, blind-touch typing ability, familiarity with fashion and trends, the ability to quickly find desired information online, and experience responding by telephone and email.

Regular exposure to entertainment content is welcomed. The stated profile includes enthusiasm for games, broad interest in content, a proactive and flexible approach to work, and consideration for team members.

The job posting identifies the employment type as regular full-time employment, while noting that contract-employee or outsourced arrangements may also be used in some cases. Annual compensation is determined according to company rules, taking experience and ability into account. The structured job data lists an annual range of JPY 4.5 million to JPY 12 million. A half-year performance incentive is available outside the annual salary, which includes prescribed overtime and late-night work allowances paid regardless of whether such work occurs. Listed examples are JPY 6 million at age 28, JPY 6.5 million at age 31, and JPY 8 million at age 39.

Working hours are 10:00–19:00, with eight scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00–14:00. Average monthly overtime is approximately 18.5 hours based on 2025 results. The offices are in Shibuya and Meguro, Tokyo, and are generally non-smoking indoors, with dedicated smoking rooms for heated tobacco products.

Holidays include a two-day weekend on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, three summer-leave days taken between July 1 and November 30, year-end and New Year holidays from December 29 to January 3, annual paid leave of 10 days granted on the joining date in the first year, and condolence leave. The posting states that these holiday provisions may not apply to outsourced contracts.

Insurance listed for regular employees includes health, employment, workers’ compensation, and employees’ pension insurance; these may not apply to outsourced contracts. Other support includes company meetings, official clubs, social-event expense assistance, a game playroom, onboarding training, CyStudy, Skill Thursday, a mentor-trainer program for new and second graduates, influenza vaccinations, an in-house bodywork service, free soft drinks, lunch assistance, a babysitter-use discount, brain checkups, housing assistance, moving expenses, a child allowance, and a corporate defined-contribution pension plan. Side jobs are prohibited.