Vacancies of the week (June 26)

Based on the job search service and specialists TalentsInGames.com Marina Lopatina, product manager, has prepared a selection of the most interesting vacancies for the week.

Marina LopatinaPublishing vacancy of the week

Head of Publishing in Mail.Ru Group (Moscow)

The company’s gaming direction Mail.Ru Group is looking for the head of the publishing division.

Responsibilities:

• implementation of the classroom and financial indicators assigned to the project;
• planning and coordination of all work on the project;
• monitoring and analysis of key project indicators, work on continuous improvement of key indicators;
• coordination and control of the work of the project team (game masters, designers, support, etc.);
• defining the policy and specific measures for monetization of the project;
• communication with the game developer, requests for development and revision of the game;
• brand management, competitive market monitoring;
• development of the game community.

Requirements:

• extensive gaming experience and knowledge of the F2P MMORPG games market;
• general relevant work experience (producing, IT project management, QA Lead in game projects, HeadGM, product management, etc.) — from 5 years;
• understanding the main trends in the gaming industry;
• experience with monetization of game projects, services;
• confident command of English.

Animation vacancy of the week

Modeller-animator at Friday’s Games (Novosibirsk)

Novosibirsk Friday’s Games, which released Gods and Glory together with Wargaming, is looking for a modeler-animator to work on the “farm”.

Responsibilities:

• creating high-quality animations for mobile games of various genres;
• creating high-poly and low-poly 3D models.
• creation and refinement of art for animation.

Requirements:

• knowledge of 3ds Max;
• knowledge of Photoshop;
• a creative view of the world;
• ability to work in a team;
• passion for mobile games and desire to develop them;
• the presence of a portfolio.

Additional advantages will be:

• experience in creating skeletal animation;
• the ability to draw by hand and on a tablet.

Programmer vacancy of the week

Senior Game Programmer at Next Games (Helsinki)

Finnish recruitment agency Games Factory Talent is looking for a senior game programmer in the Helsinki office of Next Games. Salary — from €3000.

Responsibilities:

• working together with team members in creating new functionality and maintaining old code base;
• taking responsibility and ownership of the code base;
• helping the more junior programming members of the team;
• showing leadership in the programming area.

Requirements:

• strong C# programming skills;
• ability to work with a large existing code base;
• experience in data-driven systems;
• writing high-quality robust code;
• experience in working with a live product and SaaS;
• ability to understand and design code architecture;
• ability to produce code that follows OOP principles and design patterns;
• +7 years of any programming experience;
• worked on multiple published game, ideally mobile;
• working on Unity;
• any version control system.

Additional advantages will be:

• fluent in English;
• active communicator;
• team player;
• excellent Unity skills;
• passionate about making great F2P mobile games.