• Lead a game development team through the creation of mobile games from pre-production all the way through to post launch support
• Identify key target markets and competitive products that guide the development goals and targets
• Collaborate with the game designer to develop and champion a game’s vision that is both fun to play and extremely effective at monetizing users.
• Work with internal and external resources to meet production schedules
• Work with our central technology team to ensure a smooth product launch
• Formulate and test best theories using our analytics platform for data-driven game design changes
• Collaborate with the marketing department to plan product launches and user acquisition
• Coordinate testing process with our internal QA department
• Monitor each game’s post launch performance and develop post launch product support roadmaps that maximize Hothead’s return on investment.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a game producer
• Experience with sports games and/or thorough sports knowledge is preferred
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with mobile, online competitive games
• A detail-oriented and organized personality and great at multi-tasking
• A good sense of humor

• Thoroughly understand free to play business models for mobile games.
• Design and interpret in-game analytics.
• Design and measure the impact of features to address key metrics.
• Be able to generate game vision and get buy in from the team.
• Write high quality game design documents.
• Use visualization tools for game designs such as Balsamic and App Taster.
• Write story mission content for a broad range of themes.
• Work with your producer and lead programmer to produce an accurate project schedule.
• Speedy research and analysis all relevant competing products.
• Have good design instincts.

REQUIREMENTS

• Submit your resume referring to examples of previous work.
• 3+ years of industry experience with multiple shipped titles.
• A technical understanding of the game development process.
• Experience shipping a game using one or more scripting languages.
• Strong inter-personal skills and an ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Familiarity with key mobile game services such as TapJoy, Flurry and Chartboost.

BONUS POINTS

• Art skills
• Familiarity with Torque Script
• Social game expertise

• Create robust, highly functional and maintainable code.

• Demonstrate knowledge of development tools, algorithms, implementation, coding methodologies and revision control systems.
• Understand the game’s guiding vision, technical foundation, intended functions and behaviors and fearlessly drive towards making a product you’re proud of.
• Collaborate with artists, designers and other team members to solve interdisciplinary problems creatively and effectively.

Requirements

• Build and maintain an internal dashboard web site
• Provide data visualizations for game sales, server health and performance, and user behavior and analytics data
• Design and implement interfaces for tuning live game behavior
• Assist game teams with code deployments and other game operational issues
• Improve efficiency of internal processes and performance of data processing systems
• Solve interdisciplinary problems creatively and effectively, approaching all tasks with a customer service orientation

Requirements

• Experience with modern web languages and frameworks, especially Python, JavaScript, CSS and HTML
• Comfortable operating on the command line in a UNIX environment
• Experienced in the setup and use of RESTful APIs in Apache or other web servers
• Familiarity with source control systems, particularly Perforce and git
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to transmit complex information to others at various levels of technical detail.
• Self-directed and able to perform effectively alone and in strike teams

Bonus Points

• Knowledge and experience with NoSQL databases (CouchDB, MongoDB) and with relational databases like MySQL.
• Experience with jQuery and D3 JavaScript frameworks.
• Familiarity with other languages such as C++, Objective-C and Java.
• Experience deploying cloud-based server infrastructure, particularly on the Amazon AWS platform.

• Communicate and work effectively with other artists, designers and programmers
• Utilize the latest technologies to create game-ready assets
• Work with other artists and designers to develop and maintain the visual style
• Work with programmers to refine the art pipeline and seek to evolve/improve all processes
• Work with the producers to accurately assess time and resource needs
• Provide appropriate feedback to improve the creative process and seek feedback from peers
• Be a positive and creative force on the team

REQUIREMENTS:

• Please submit a digital portfolio and resume
• 5+ years of industry experience with multiple shipped titles
• A technical understanding of the game development process
• Thorough knowledge and proficiency using 3D modeling packages, including but not limited to Maya
• Thorough knowledge of 2D art creation/manipulation packages, including but not limited to Photoshop
• Strong inter-personal skills and an ability to work in a collaborative team environment

BONUS POINTS:

• Experience with mobile game development
• Strong conceptual skills including interface, character, prop and environment design
• Animation skill-set

• Thoroughly test all Hothead’s iOS and Android games and their associated updates
• Respond to Player support question, issues and feedback inquiries
• Adapt to a fast changing testing environment and be able to multi-task with several projects daily
• Carry out technical requirements testing for both iOS and Android platforms to ensure on-time submissions
• Creating testing plans to ensure complete testing coverage, and updating test cases accordingly with updates
• Ability to perform ‘outside of the box’ testing methods to ensure a high quality end user experience for everyone

REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum 1 year Quality Assurance/Player Support Testing experience or equivalent, game testing experience is preferred
• Being a mobile gamer or being at least familiar with games and the game’s market
• Knowledge of the 5 major Sports (Baseball, Basketball,Hockey,Football and Soccer) a must
• Previous experience testing Sport mobile games a plus
• Familiar with using bug tracking software
• Very familiar with iOS/Android testing procedures
• Familiar with using Windows and its associated word processing programs (ie. MS Office or Open Office etc…)
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and able to use these skills effectively in a team environment
• Excellent ‘people’ skills, you communicate and work well with team members in a clear/concise/respectful manner
• Ability to be thorough and follow-up on game issues with QA team members, the QA Lead and the game teams
• Able to provide constructive quality gameplay feedback to game team members
• Willing to work overtime if needed
• Always has a positive outlook and is willing to adapt to change in workflow easily

• At least 2 years industry experience
• Proficient in DAW ie ProTools, Nuendo or Sonar etc
• Ability to create and implement sound effects, UI elements as well as post-production of movies
• Experience but not expertise in basic scripting languages
• Able to compose music in various styles ranging from electronic, rock to full orchestral

• Own company files (organize and maintain)
• Own mail and courier deliveries
• Minimal telephone reception and visitors
• Purchase and maintain office supplies
• Make travel arrangements for the management team
• Liaise with building manager, cleaning staff and employees when necessary
• Manage petty cash, credit card receipts, reconcile monthly reports and make bank deposits
• Provide customer service (mostly email, some telephone)
• Attend and record notes at management meetings

Human Resources (Training Provided)

• Manage company benefits and address employee questions
• Manage the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Record employee vacation and sick day calendar
• Organize paperwork for new hires and terminations
• Record weekly project allocations data
• Maintain shareholder registry, options list, Board Resolutions, etc.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelors degree in a relevant field
• 2+ years experience in an administrative role
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office and email communication

Skills & Attributes

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail, organization skills and initiative to manage multiple projects
• Flexible attitude to handle and prioritize workload from various sources
• Ability to be flexible with work hours when required

• Manage budgets and ROI on marketing spends across all our games
• Manage & implement User Acquisition campaigns
• Work with business intelligence team to determine value of acquisition efforts
• Develop, execute, test and monitor effective marketing campaigns to grow and diversify sources of users
• Develop A/B testing programs to maximize return on investment
• Manage analytics and funnel optimization programs to increase new users, conversion, repeat visits and viral distribution
• Cultivate relationships with advertising partners and companies that can support profitable user acquisition

Requirements

• 2 to 5 yrs experience in a user acquisition focused role with a focus on data analytics and reporting
• Experience managing online user acquisition programs with an emphasis on CPI and CPC
• Experience with optimizing user acquisition programs across self-service platforms such as Tapjoy, AppRedeem, AdMob etc
• Ability to develop structured and ad hoc campaign performance reports
• Ability to work with Hothead’s Business Intelligence Manager to organize and summarize large sets of data
• Advanced knowledge of Excel including data manipulation and pivot tables
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelors Degree in a quantitative field