Director of Game Technology
Lead Tools Engineer
Lead Artist/Art Director
Tools Engineer
Senior/Exec Producer
Video Game Engineers (Mid-Sr-Lead)

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER/ADMINISTRATOR – JGMA1163 – Foxboro, MA

Responsibilities:
- Act as lead network architect responsible for capacity planning, design and configuration of our routers, switches, network appliances, host, and other communication devices.
- Responsible for the protection of corporate data assets, create backup strategy and disaster recovery plans
- Create, design and implement our IT/IM strategy, internal networking systems, procedures and policies.
- Maintain the appropriate relationships with 3rd party vendors and evaluate vendor hardware, software, and communications products and provide purchase recommendations.
- Act as System Administrator for our internal applications and devices
- Provide technical support to up to 30 high-tech users
Required Skills/Abilities/Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in network engineering, must have the ability to lead others.
- 2-3 years experience managing a 200+ node network
- 2-3 years experience configuring Cisco routers and switches, and Linux firewalls
- 3+ years experience with Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange
- Experience designing and supporting large scale Enterprise WAN infrastructures
- Possess a clear understanding of network capacity planning
- Extensive knowledge of Network Monitoring and Management tools
- Must be able to quickly turn business issues into technical solutions.
- High proficiency with LAMP technology
- Attention to detail, comprehensive problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Familiarity with Perforce or other source control systems
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- VOIP support experience a plus

ART DIRECTOR – JGMA2113 – Foxboro, MA

Looking for an experienced, versatile Art Director that is responsible for defining the look and feel of our flagship sports titles, creating a distinctive visual brand for our games and leading our team of artists and our art production pipeline. We will be breaking new ground in the quality and caliber of the art that Flash/Shockwave can render and the Art Director will be the driving force behind pushing that boundary and embracing that challenge. The position will be responsible for overseeing and developing concept art, modeling, texturing, skinning and weighting, character setup and animations, FX , UI and managing outsourcers. A candidate with a high-level of proficiency with animation and experience with outsourcing is preferred.
Our team is first and foremost a team of entrepreneurs. The ideal candidate must be able to think fast on their feet, entrepreneurial, creative and willing to adapt to a fast-moving market. Candidates should be comfortable leading a team of skilled artists, designing an art pipeline, project management and working with other departments (e.g. marketing, engineering, game design etc.). Candidates should also be comfortable working with outsources, providing art direction and being an active contributor to the production of art assets.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of professional game development experience of which at least 2 years should be as a senior artist/lead.
- Expert proficiency with Maya and Photoshop
- Basic proficiency with all of the following and expertise in at least three of the following: character setup and animation, anatomy and perspective drawing, modeling, texturing, skinning and weighting, visual FX and UI.
- Experience directing and managing outsourced artists
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to write high-quality specifications
- Degree in an art related discipline
Valued Skills:
- Experience with processing game assets through an art pipeline into an existing game engine
- Proficiency to expertise with Illustrator, Flash and Fireworks
- Proficiency with HTML/XML/CSS

DIRECTOR OF GAME DESIGN – JGMA3079 – Foxboro, MA

The Director of Game Design is responsible for overseeing and helping develop specifications for all game systems, balanced formulas for team stats and advancement and scripted rules for specific titles. The position is also responsible for providing feedback and guidance on the playability, entertainment value and quality of the game. It is critical that this position have the ability to communicate their vision to the technology team, the art team and the executive staff. Examples of the various game systems include: team AI, team stats and advancement, tournaments and leagues, skills and items, playbooks and penalties and rules.
Our team is first and foremost a team of entrepreneurs. The ideal candidate must be able to think fast on their feet, entrepreneurial, creative and willing to adapt to a fast-moving market. Candidates should be comfortable leading teams of designers, hiring and firing, prioritizing tasks, managing multiple projects and work-streams and working with other departments (e.g. marketing, art, engineering etc.). A passion for sports and a deep-knowledge of sports games is a must. Particular depth in football is a plus.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of professional game design experience with at least 2 at a senior level.
- Deep-knowledge of sports, particularly football
- Prior experience designing a team AI , stats and advancement curves
- Prior experience designing a project from the ground-up
- Prior experience designing a sports title or an RTS (real-time strategy game)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to write high-quality specifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent certification
Valued Skills:
- Prior experience as a programmer and familiarity with a programming language
- Prior experience as an artist and familiarity with modeling, texturing and animation.

GAME SYSTEMS LEAD/DIRECTOR – JGMA4067 – Foxboro, MA

The Director of Game Systems is responsible for the architecture and development of the specific rules and systems that define each of our sports titles. The game systems engine will work on top of a core technology platform that provides basic infrastructure (networking, physics, collision detection etc.) The Game Systems codebase will implement all features specific to the sport for each title including: AI, UI and player interface, game rules, teams and stats, leagues and tournaments, advancement and items.
Our team is first and foremost a team of entrepreneurs. The ideal candidate must demonstrate the ability to think fast on their feet, be entrepreneurial, creative and willing to adapt to a fast-moving market. Candidates should be comfortable leading teams of skilled engineers, hiring and firing, setting budgets, prioritizing tasks, managing multiple projects and work-streams and working with other departments (e.g. marketing, art, game design etc.). A passion for building excellent software and writing efficient, elegant code is a must, as is prior experience in the games industry. A passion for sports and a knowledge of football is a plus.
Qualifications:
- 5-7 years of professional C++ development experience of which at least 2 years should be at a senior level as a software architect or a team leader.
- Deep knowledge of C++ and the STL
- Familiarity with client-server architecture and writing bandwidth and memory-efficient code
- Experience with build management and source control systems
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and game development processes
- Development experience or deep knowledge of the following areas of core game technology: AI, UI and player interface and advancement systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to write high-quality specifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Valued Skills:
- Prior experience in the games industry, particularly having shipped a product as a senior engineer or lead
- Proficiency with PHP or Java/JSP and AJAX
- Proficiency with SQL and database architecture
- Proficiency with HTML/XML/CSS
- Experience developing Flash/Shockwave applications

Responsibilities:
- Develop, optimize, and track search-friendly site content and pages for use across all company web sites; develop actionable management reporting and statistics on behalf of all paid and organic search activities.
- Serve as a thought leader across the entire enterprise on behalf of organic-search efforts, including monitoring industry (Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc) and competitor search development efforts and trends in order to position the company as the leading organic-search expert in the online space.
- Develop strategic management relationships with all major online distribution channels.
Qualifications:
- Savvy marketer and business manager with a record of quantifiable achievements, strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to use good judgment and work effectively inter-departmentally, thrive in a multi-task position within a fast paced environment. A can-do professional approach to business and a willingness to be held accountable for results.
- The ideal candidate will have prior experience marketing online services, content or entertainment through online search vehicles and has demonstrated strong strategic ability as evidenced by past performance that is highly-regarded for its superior products/services and the freshness and innovation of its marketing.
- Exceptional management skills in developing and executing sophisticated marketing strategies, tactics, plans and programs.
- Experience in building and launching online services including merchandising online business-to-consumer products and services.
- Highly resourceful; not dependent on large corporate staffs and resources.
- An undergraduate degree is required and an MBA degree is preferred.

SENIOR/EXEC PRODUCER (TMMA4047) Quincy, MA

Summary
Looking for a Producer for our next game project. This person will manage the development operations of the entire Boston studio as well as coordinate activities with our Australia studio. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with one of the premiere development teams in the industry.
The producer is considered to be the ‘heart’ of the development team. The ideal candidate will embrace the creative tension of the development process, striving for quality at every turn while actively managing to stay within the constraints of budget and time. This person must be able to listen and react to the needs of the project and confidently direct the team to meet those requirements. We believe that great game producers must be capable of thinking on their feet and of responding flexibly to an ever-changing development environment.

Responsibilities
- Conceive and organize a project structure that effectively balances the creative and the practical.
- Collaborate with and manage the time, focus, and priorities of Creative Director, during all aspects of the development cycle.
- Work with leads and stakeholders to build a quality-focused, cost-aware project plan (budget, milestones, headcount, schedule)
- Maintain and update project schedules to reflect current project realities.
- Clearly communicate tasks and responsibilities to staff and external contractors
- Work with leads and HR staff to grow the studio in order take on new challenges and expand our development expertise and capacity.
- Identify risks and put in place risk management strategies
- Facilitate communication and cooperation in the project team
- Manage relationship with publisher and other third parties
- Coordinate with team leads and goal-based “strike teams” to triage, prioritize, and delegate project tasks
- Devise and establish development and company processes that nurture, challenge, and grow the team to reach their highest potential.
- Manage cross-time zone, cross studio development, finding the most graceful solutions to the personal and management challenge of coordinating teams on opposite sides of the world.
Requirements
- Minimum five years experience in the games industry
- Must have shipped at least 2 AAA titles in a producer, development director, or project lead role
- Experience managing a large scale software development project (40+ development staff over 2+ years)
- Experience shipping console game titles including dealing with manufacturer approval processes
- Demonstrated ability to lead the development of great products, both critically and commercially.
- Understanding of key technical issues involved with console and PC game development
- Experience with scheduling tools
- Experience managing a project budget
- Excellent people skills including the ability to motivate people and inspire their creative talents
- Experience managing conflict
- Experience in risk analysis and mitigation
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Willingness to be flexible with hours when working with resources on the other side of the world.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with remote studios and contractors
- Willingness to travel for short periods of time to publisher and remote studios
- experience with agile development methodology

VIDEO GAME ENGINEERS (Mid-Sr-Lead) (JGMA1079)

Position Summary
Looking for experienced video game engineers from all disciplines. Successful candidates will work closely with a team of engineers, designers, and artists for an online video game project currently in preproduction. The environment is fast-paced yet family oriented. Benefits are the best in the business.
Position Responsibilities
Candidates should possess the following:
- 4+ years game industry or related programming experience.
- Strong team player: Demonstrated ability to collaborate as member of a team and work toward team goals.
- Strong time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities, solve problems, and meet deadlines.
- Experience on at least one critically and/or commercially successful product.
- Demonstrated expertise in multiple game technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to write clear, maintainable, portable code.
- Demonstrated understanding of engineering and software architecture principals.
- Demonstrated ability to contribute innovative ideas to all aspects of game development.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex code problems efficiently.
- Experience working with a variety of game development technologies, including but required: (3D Graphics, 3D animation technology, Physics, AI/Pathfinding, Game Systems, Sound, Tools –system and content creation, Networking, Database Development)
- Ability to work either self-directed and as part of a larger team is critical.

Director of Game Technology (TMMA1070)

Description
The Director of Game Technology is responsible for managing the internal game technology team and reports to the CTO. This position will direct the daily activities of a skilled team of software engineers by performing such duties as project management, task prioritization, risk assessment, interdepartmental coordination, budgeting, hiring, firing, employee growth, and technology partner management.
This role is primarily focused on project and personnel management. Although candidates are expected to be highly technical, there will be only rare opportunities to write code. This position will influence the company's game technology architecture and help to develop a roadmap for the creation of that technology.
The candidate should have experience working in a multi-project environment and be able to detail past successes in managing a multi-discipline engineering team. The candidate should demonstrate expertise and passion in the field of video games and video game technology.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of game technology
- Identify areas of technical risk and create risk mitigation plans
- Serve as the liaison between projects teams; gathering requirements and following through
- Make staffing recommendations and decisions within the game technology team
- Manage research and development on cutting-edge online gaming technologies to be used across multiple development teams
- Help to establish and maintain relationships with technology partners
- Stay informed of new hardware and software developments and offer insight and experience as to what technologies should be developed
- Contribute to the overall technical position of the company
- Contribute to and enforce engineering standards and articulate general philosophies for software engineering
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the manager
Qualifications
- At least 8 years experience in the game industry which includes design and implementation of game software
- At least 4 years of experience as a lead engineer
- At least 4 years of experience dealing with personnel management
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Platforms: XP/Vista, Linux
- Languages: C, C++ (with a strong OOP background), SQL, Perl
- Networking: TCP/IP, UDP/IP
- SDK: DirectX, Havok, Granny, Bink, and other 3rd party game technologies
- Tools: Visual Studio, Maya, Photoshop, level building tools and content pipelines
- Previous experience as a software engineer preferred
- Experience with Scrum methodology a plus
- Experience with recent consoles a plus

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