we want you
We're not a freelance marketplace and we're not a sweatshop. We're a long-term studio investing in long-term creative careers for Indonesian artists, on Indonesian soil.
Work on titles for Japanese, Korean, and Western publishers without leaving Jakarta. Your portfolio gains international weight.
Every new artist goes through structured onboarding before touching a client project. Senior leads review every panel.
Work from Jakarta, your hometown, or wherever you focus best. Most production roles are fully remote-friendly with optional studio days for the people who want them.
You'll work on international-caliber webtoon series for Japanese, Korean, and Western publishers — the kind of titles that move portfolios from local to global.
Junior → Mid → Senior → Lead. Tracked, transparent, and tied to real review milestones — not vibes or favoritism.
We work in Bahasa Indonesia internally. English helps for client work but is not a barrier to joining or growing here.
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Clean digital inking of webtoon panels using Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop.
Requirements: Proficiency in Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop · Strong understanding of anatomy and perspective · Experience with clean digital inking · Portfolio with original or commissioned work.
Lead line art quality across multiple titles. Mentor junior artists and liaise with Japanese clients.
Requirements: 3+ years of professional webtoon production experience · Leadership or mentoring track record · Strong communication skills in a team environment · Basic English or Japanese a plus.
Paint atmospheric backgrounds and environments for monthly serialized webtoons.
Requirements: Strong perspective and lighting fundamentals · Proficient in Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop · Sense of storytelling through environment · Portfolio of finished backgrounds.
Apply mood, lighting, and palette to inked panels for full-color webtoon series.
Requirements: Strong color theory and lighting skills · Proficiency in Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint · Portfolio showing color work in sequential storytelling · Ability to match an established palette.
Translate scripts into rough panel layouts with attention to pacing and reader flow.
Requirements: Strong narrative composition · Understanding of vertical scroll pacing · Familiarity with manga / webtoon panel grammar · Portfolio of layouts or finished comics.
Coordinate webtoon production schedules, review every panel, and shepherd projects to client delivery.
Requirements: Strong organisational skills · Project-management experience (Notion / Trello / Asana) · Editorial eye for narrative + technical quality · Bahasa Indonesia + working English.
Write and adapt original scripts for ongoing webtoon series.
Requirements: Portfolio of completed scripts or short fiction · Understanding of webtoon panel pacing · Bahasa Indonesia native + working English · Bonus: experience with serial storytelling formats.
Hiring is the start. Here's what working at vertwo actually looks and sounds like, from the people who do the work.
I joined as a junior colorist three years ago, fresh out of design school. Today I lead a team of five and I've worked on six published series — without ever leaving Jakarta.
The mentorship is real. My first month, a senior background artist sat with me on every panel until my fundamentals were where the studio needed. Nobody ever did that for me before.
I'd been freelancing for years and burnout was real. At Vertwo, sustainable hours aren't a slogan — they hold the line. I draw better because I sleep better.
My portfolio went from local to published in Tokyo in two years. The studio backs you with the right titles, the right reviewers, and the right tools to actually do it.
Most of what candidates ask before applying. If your question isn't here, the form has a notes field, or contact us directly.
For art roles (line art, color, background): 8–12 finished pieces that show your strongest work. Original characters, fan art, or commissioned panels are all fine. Include rough-to-final progressions on at least one piece if you have them.
For story roles: layouts or panel sketches showing how you approach pacing and composition.
For editing: a written sample of project coordination — a Notion doc, a project tracker, or a recap of a project you've shepherded works.
Department-specific. Line art: ink a provided rough at the panel level. Background: paint an environment from a script line. Color: color a provided line art file. Story: layout 5 panels from a script excerpt. Editing: build a 2-week production schedule from a brief.
Test materials are released through your dashboard once your application is screened. You work locally on your own software/hardware, then upload back through the dashboard. Typical effort: 4–8 hours over the test window (~5 days).
It depends on the role — check the role detail in the position card. Most junior and mid-level roles are hybrid (2–3 days/week onsite in Jakarta). Senior leads and editing roles are typically onsite. We don't currently hire fully remote outside Jakarta — the studio time is part of how mentorship works here.
No. Bahasa Indonesia is our internal working language and is sufficient for every role. Working English helps for client-facing work, and basic Japanese is a plus for senior roles partnered with Japanese publishers — but neither is a requirement to apply or grow here.
We benchmark against the upper third of the Indonesian webtoon market for each role + level, with annual reviews tied to the Junior → Mid → Senior → Lead progression. Specific ranges are shared at the offer stage — we'll never lowball, and we'll never ghost on numbers.
Drop us a line through the contact form anyway. We run 3–4 batches a year, and exceptional senior portfolios sometimes get reviewed off-cycle for specific roles.
Yes. We hire at the junior level every batch, and student portfolios are welcome — we read for craft, not credentials. If you can show clean fundamentals (anatomy, perspective, color theory, composition), the rest is teachable.
