Weekly Game Jobs Digest - July 3
COOLEST JOBS I’VE SEEN THIS WEEK
Each week, I plan to profile a very short (< 5) + hyper-curated list of unique jobs that I believe deserve special attention.
Principal Animator, Fantastic Pixel Castle (FPC) - FPC was founded by Ghostcrawler, AKA Greg Street - who led game design for both WoW AND League of Legends. Backed by the might of NetEase, the FPC team is working on making a new MMO. A rare combination of the right people + the financial wherewithal to bring this sort of ambitious project to reality. I personally worked with a lot of folks on this team - they are incredible.
Principal Technical Designer, Mountaintop - The Mountaintop team recently raised $30M - among the investors: Shroud + Zedd. The founders are also pretty impressive - Nate Mitchell cofounded Oculus and continued to lead the organization post Meta acquisition. Matt Hansen was previously the COO of Double Fine. The team is working on a tactical shooter and have some of the best possible investors, advisors and team for the task.
Game Creator, Lil Snack - Despite incorporating less than 9 months ago, Lil Snack already launched their daily ephemeral games product, became the gaming partner for Buzz Feed, and raised $3.1M. Led by Travis Chen, who previously led Game Design at both Scopely and Bad Robot, and Eric Berman - the team is rapidly iterating on game ideas, and needs someone to join their squad to add to the creative mix.
Sr. Concept Artist, Theorycraft — Just last week, the Theorycraft team announced Supervive, and was profiled by all sorts of publications including Rolling stone - who said “as it stands, there’s no other MOBA-like game out there now that allows you to “Falcon punch” an opponent into a moving train. And for that experience alone, everyone should give it a go.”
SOME PRACTICAL SEARCH ADVICE
Hey - guess what - not everyone posts their jobs on LinkedIn. Here’s how you can find their jobs!
Step 1: Go to Google
---> type "site:greenhouse.io"
Step 2: Add search terms
---> Add titles, locations, or keywords.
** Google supports boolean searching - here are two examples **
site:greenhouse.io ("gameplay engineer" OR "gameplay engineering") AND "remote"
or...
site:greenhouse.io ("UX designer" OR "UI designer" OR "UX/UI designer" OR "user experience designer" OR "user interface designer" OR "UX researcher" OR "UI developer" OR "product designer") AND "remote"
---> you can also do this for the other major ATS platforms
- jobs.lever.co
- jobs.smartrecruiters.com
- wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
- jobs.bamboohr.com
- jobs.jobvite.com
- careers.icims.com
- apply.jazz.co
- careers.workable.com
Prebuilt Search URLs
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Other
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THE “WHO IS HIRING” LIST
Each company below published new jobs within the past two weeks. Drop a comment to recommend potential additions to the list!
REMOTE
STUDIOS
TECH / PLATFORMS
HYBRID / ONSITE
CALIFORNIA
⚜️ Azra Games (San Jose)
🐿 Blind Squirrel Games (Irvine)
🔥 Bonfire Studios (Irvine)
💓 Heart Machine (Culver City)
🦅 Intrepid Studios (San Diego)
SEATTLE
NYC
👩🔬 Pahdo Labs
EUROPE
🏔 Avalanche Studios Group (Sweden /UK)
🧟♂️ Playdead (Copenhagen)
🧙♀️ Cult of the North (Stockholm)
THAT’S IT!
I hope the second list + new tips was valuable! Would love feedback / thoughts, and wishing you all the most success with your job search. Make sure to hit the subscribe button below to get future issues direct to your inbox!!!