About Alpha Channel
A small, focused job board which aggregates openings directly from animation, VFX, and games studios. Created and maintained by David Lee-DuVoisin. Feedback, issues, feature requests? Please send me an email at daduvo11@gmail.com
Sourced Directly From Studios
Every listing comes straight from each studio's own public job-board API, the same systems that power their careers pages: Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Workable, and BambooHR. Nothing is re-posted from third-party aggregators or sketchy middle-men. Each role links back to the original posting. Because we source the data from first party APIs, some studios who used closed systems are unable to be tracked.
Automated & Unverified
Alpha Channel is fully automated. Listings are collected by scripts and enriched with extracted metadata (locations, disciplines, seniority, salary ranges, software) using rule-based parsing with an efficient LLM filling any gaps. This data is not human-verified and can be incomplete, misleading, or totally wrong. Always confirm the details on the original posting before relying on them. The two most troublesome values are pay and locations which are both surprisingly difficult to extract and normalize. If you see any egregious issues, feel free to send me an email so I can investigate and fix them.
Bookmark Your Filters
The filters on the homepage are stored in the page's URL. Once you've narrowed things down, just bookmark the page (or copy the link) and it will reopen with the same filters applied. It's an easy way to save a search like “animation roles in Canada” and check back on it later.
Updated 4x Per Day
The whole board is rebuilt automatically every 6 hours in UTC time (00/06/12/18 UTC). Each run checks for new data for every tracked studio, removes roles that have closed, and adds new ones. To keep the board current, listings older than one year are hidden even if a studio still has them open. The window slides with every rebuild, so anything you see was posted within the last twelve months.
No Bloat, Tracking, or Advertising
This website contains no tracking, data collection, cookies, or advertising of any kind. The only tracking may come from the host Cloudflare which checks visitors to mitigate abuse.
What is the tech stack?
This website is built to be about as cheap as possible since there will be no monetization. The backend is TypeScript, frontend is Astro, database is SQLite hosted on Turso. The website is statically rendered and served via Cloudflare Pages (all filtering and search is clientside). Builds are scheduled with a simple Cloudflare Worker which triggers the Github Actions build (Actions cron jobs are very unstable). On each build the system scans for changes on each ATS API endpoint and updates the database. It then enriches the data, first attempting text parsing and falling back on Gemini Flash with structured output for edge cases. Gemini outputs are cached to the database in case the same job description is reused later. The site is then rendered down to a static website and deployed via Wrangler. My costs right now are about $4/mo for the Gemini API and $12/yr for the domain, everything else is free.
Takedown Contact
If you own any of the data (job postings, logos, etc) hosted on this site and would like it removed, email me at daduvo11@gmail.com and it will be promptly removed from the site.