🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Eleventh Hour Games is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Eleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs.We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators.With our breakout titleLast Epoch,we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

THE OPPORTUNITY:

As a Principal Character Artist at Eleventh Hour Games, you will be responsible for driving the vision, quality, and execution of character art that brings the world of Last Epoch to life. You will set the bar for character quality across heroes, enemies, NPCs, and gear-driven visual identity, while serving as a highly senior individual contributor and a key creative partner to Art Direction.

This role requires both exceptional artistic craft and deep technical character pipeline expertise. You'll collaborate closely with concept, animation, design, and technical art to create characters that are visually compelling, production-ready, and tightly integrated with gameplay systems. The ideal candidate brings a high visual bar, advanced real-time character creation skills, and the technical depth to help shape scalable character workflows as the project grows.

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Tips for South African Applicants

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Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Eleventh Hour Games

Eleventh Hour Games is a company in the unity industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 8 open positions on Hirezar. View all Eleventh Hour Games jobs →