Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a strong Producer, Online Games to work on an exciting new family-focused video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will manage the production of incredibly compelling, high-quality Online games
• Candidate will be responsible for planning and overseeing the project, and managing members of the team
• Work with executive management team to craft vision of the title, develop schedule and resource requirements to ensure achievement of vision
• Initiate and track all production processes through direct management of team leads (art, design, development, QA)
• Direct relationship management of third party consulting firms
• Ensure timely delivery of milestones while safeguarding quality of work in accordance with pre-defined project schedule
• Develop and maintain project schedules for all functional areas of development
• Work with QA to triage game issues and drive updates to the game service

Requirements

• Candidates must have experience as a Producer in the games industry
• Candidate must have shipped at least two PC and/or console game titles
• Experience managing a team of 20+ developers (programmers, artists, animators, designers, testers)
• Extremely strong project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience communicating well with executive management
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related field to interactive entertainment industry
• Strong skills with the MS Office suite of tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Producer” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Senior Animator (Characters) to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Candidate will act as a mentor on a team of talented artists on a new MMO title
• Candidate is highly skilled in the area of rigging and animations for characters
• Candidate creates animations based on verbal or written descriptions that fit within the gameplay style
• Candidates must have a good sense of movement, timing, and expression
• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment

Requirements

• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• 6+ years experience in game industry
• Extensive working knowledge of 3DSMax
• Shipped at least 2 PC / console game title
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Listed credit in animation for a shipped game
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Experience in 3D modeling and texturing
• Understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• MMO/console game experience
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine
• Bachelor’s Degree in fine Arts or equivalent

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Senior Animator (Characters)” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Senior Character Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Candidate will work with art and design to craft and maintain the project's art style and manage character creation
• Candidate will act as a mentor on a team of talented artists on a new MMO title
• Candidate will be expected to translate the vision of the designers to character art and ensure that all work conforms to the technical and stylistic specifications set forth
• Ability to faithfully translate concept art to fully realized 3D characters
• Ability to create clean, animation-ready topology
• Strong communication skills, ability to effectively relate vision to developers and artists
• Systematic approach to all areas of character art creation: modeling, UV layout and hand-painted texturing
• Strong understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment
• 3D modeling and texture creation for characters / creatures
1. 2500 triangles or less for models
2. 512 x 512 or less for textures

Requirements

• Experience in character art creation as a senior artist on a project with a team size of 20+ (programmers, artists, animators, designers, testers)
• Candidates must have 6+ years experience as an artist in the games industry
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Experience communicating well with team disciplines and working within existing project constraints (time, scope, technical)
• Two year Art Degree
• Extensive working knowledge of Photoshop; 3DSMax
• Experience in modeling and texturing hand-painted low poly characters / creatures
• Strong UV layout skills
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Strong familiarity with Massively-Multiplayer Online products and online games job experience preferred
• Candidate must have shipped at least two critically and commercially successful PC and/or console game titles
• Concept drawing ability
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply and only candidates that meet the degree requirements will be considered. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Senior Character Artist” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for an Effects (FX) Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Candidate will build a wide range of FX, from simple sprites to modeled items
• Candidate will create both low-poly geometry and textures, based off of concept art or verbal/written descriptions
• Proficiency in setting up camera sequences and lighting effects
• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment

Requirements

• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• Three years experience in game industry
• Extensive working knowledge of 3DSMax and Photoshop
• Shipped at least 1 PC / console game title
• Candidates must have a demonstrated ability to create particle FX
• Candidate must have a strong technical knowledge of particle systems and sprites
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Texture painting ability, technical knowledge of many art programs
• Extensive working knowledge of Premiere
• Listed credit in particles and special effects creation for a shipped game
• Understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• MMO/console game experience
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply and only candidates that meet the degree requirements will be considered.

Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.
Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume and/or a link to your online portfolio to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “FX Artist” in the email subject heading. Please do not email art samples.

For this position, your portfolio should show samples of low- and high-detail examples of your artworks (particle systems & textures). Our interest is primarily in non-photorealistic artwork.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Technical Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Instruct other artists on use of 3DS Max, Gamebryo, and other game development tools
• Write and optimize the workflow pipeline for use of art tools
• Write scripts to help improve the workflow of the artists
• Consult with artists on individual workflow issues
• Test and give feedback on proprietary software tools
• De-bug and fix art tools, art assets and other in-game objects

Requirements

• 3DS Max scripting
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine
• Technical writing ability
• Basic understanding of XML
• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• 3+ years experience in game industry
• Extensive working knowledge of 3DSMax and Photoshop
• Shipped at least 1 PC / console game title
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• MMO/console game experience

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to HR@KingsIsle.com, and include “Technical Artist” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Character Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment
• 3D modeling and texture creation for characters / creatures
• 2500 triangles or less for models
• 512 x 512 or less for textures

Requirements

• Two year Art Degree required
• Two years of game industry experience
• Extensive working knowledge of Photoshop; 3DSMax
• Experience in modeling and texturing low poly characters / creatures
• Strong UV layout skills
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Concept Drawing Ability
• Experience working on MMO projects
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Character Artist” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Contract Animator to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities:

• Candidate will create animations based on verbal or written descriptions that fit within the gameplay style

Requirements

• Candidate is highly skilled in the area of rigging and animations for characters
• Candidates must have a good sense of movement, timing, and expression
• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment
• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• 2 to 8+ years experience in game industry
• Extensive working knowledge of 3DSMax
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Experience in 3D modeling and texturing
• Understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• MMO/console game experience
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine
• Bachelor’s Degree in fine Arts or equivalent

Pay rate will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Austin located candidates only please.

Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.
Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Contract Animator” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Contract Character Artistto work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 
Responsibilities:

• Ability to work individually and with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast paced environment
• 3D modeling and hand-painted texture creation for characters / creatures
• 1500 triangles or less for models
• 512 x 512 or less for textures

Requirements

• Experience in modeling and texturing low poly characters / creatures
• Extensive working knowledge of Photoshop and 3DSMax
• Strong UV layout skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Good communication and problem solving skills
• Two years of game industry experience
• Two year Art Degree required

Preferences

• Concept Drawing Ability
• Experience working on MMO projects
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Pay rate will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Austin located candidates only please.

Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.
Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume and/or a link to your online portfolio to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Contract Character Artist” in the email subject heading. Please do not email art samples.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Game Designer (Systems) to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Candidate will work to craft “simple-to-learn, hard-to-master” game systems that will increase player enjoyment and retention in an online, persistent world
• Collaborate with design leadership to design, implement, and iterate on the core combat experience, including combat mechanics, encounters, player classes and abilities, and AI
• Strong understanding of interrelated game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• Strong communication skills, ability to effectively relate requirements to programmers and artists

Requirements

• Candidates must have 3+ years as a Designer in the games industry
• Candidate must have shipped at least one game title
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Extremely strong math skills
• Implementation of systems (i.e. balancing tables and underlying game system formulas) will be emphasized over “high concept” design vision experience
• Strong familiarity with massively-multiplayer online products and online games job experience
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

Preferences

• Experience designing and implementing turn-based combat systems

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include "Game Designer (Systems)" in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Game Designer (UI / Scaleform) to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Work individually and with a diverse and experienced team in a creative and fast-paced environment
• Collaborate with designers, programmers, and artists
• Candidate will be expected to take a leadership role in the prototyping, implementation and testing of UI for all internal game systems.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Scaleform
• Must have 2+ years as a Flash ActionScript 2 scripter, with at least 2 commercial and currently accessible projects
• Demonstrated ability to optimize Flash for both memory footprint and speed
• Strong understanding of interrelated game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• Ability to mock up User Interfaces for use in game quickly and able to iterate on it at a rapid pace with minimal supervision.
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within assigned schedules
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to effectively relate vision to developers and artists
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

Preferences

• Experience with game development in C++
• Prior work with UI development and theory
• Experience in game system design as designer on a project with a team size of 20+ (programmers, artists, animators, designers, testers)
• Strong familiarity with Massively-Multiplayer Online products and online games job experience

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Game Designer (UI / Scaleform)” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Ability to work with a diverse and experienced team of developers in a creative and fast paced environment
• Ability to collaborate with other programmers, designers and artists
• Ability to create, test, debug and maintain game code and scripts
• Ability to mentor and lead other members of the engineering team

Requirements

• Verifiable proficiency with C++, Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• Architectural experience (client/server preferred)
• 5+ years of programming experience
• 3+ years of computer game experience
• Good communication skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Bachelor of Science degree

Preferences

• MMO experience
• Real-time and Multi-threaded environments
• Prior distributed system development experience
• Network programming experience (TCP, UDP, optimization, security, NATs, etc.)
• Prior shipped game titles
• Database development experience
• Knowledge of Linux, Windows, SQL and XML

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@KingsIsle.com, and include “Senior Software Engineer” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer (Mobile Devices) to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA online video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Development and maintenance of cross-platform online technology
• Ability to work with a diverse and experienced team of developers in a creative and fast-paced environment
• Collaborate with other programmers, designers and artists
• Create, test, debug and maintain game code and scripts
• Mentor and lead other members of the Engineering team

Requirements

• Verifiable proficiency with C#, Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• Mobile device or Embedded development experience
• Architectural experience (client/server preferred)
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows platforms
• 5+ years of programming experience
• 3+ years of computer or mobile game experience
• Good communication skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Bachelor of Science degree

Preferences

• Experience with mobile middleware, especially Unity3D
• Real-time and Multi-threaded environments
• 3D and mathematical background
• Prior shipped game titles and/or online game experience

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply.

Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@KingsIsle.com, and include “Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Devices” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Client Software Engineer to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101, which has garnered over 20 Million registered players to date, and is one of the fastest growing websites in the U.S.  This is an opportunity to be a part of a fast-growing and highly successful entertainment company. 

Responsibilities

• Ability to work individually and with a diverse, experienced team of developers in a creative and fast paced environment
• Collaborate with other programmers, designers and artists
• Create, test, debug and maintain game code and scripts

Requirements

• Strong DirectX/OpenGL experience
• Verifiable proficiency with C++, Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Good communication skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Bachelor of Science degree

Preferences

• Real-time and Multi-threaded environments
• Network programming
• Prior shipped game titles and/or MMO experience
• Knowledge of Linux, Windows, SQL and XML

Salaries will be commensurate with experience. Only highly qualified candidates need apply. Applicants must be legally able to work in the USA for KingsIsle effective immediately.

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@KingsIsle.com, and include “Client Software Engineer” in the email subject heading.

Location: Plano, TX

Description: Creative, highly accomplished and skilled technical professional is needed to help design, implement and support services and features within the Data Warehouse. You will be responsible for creative and timely solutions that support KingsIsle’s business objectives.

Successful candidates possess the following traits:

• Ability to work independently and in small teams
• Good communication skills
• Good problem solving skills
• Work ethic
• Ability to abstract complexity
• Ability to gather and interpret business requirements into a viable technical solution

Required Skills
Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, possess a minimum of five years experience and have demonstrable skills in the following technologies:

• Database/SQL (with emphasis on MySQL)
• Data Modeling and System Level Architecture Design
• Java/C++ Experience
• Perl or other similar modular scripting languages
• Object oriented design and the use of patterns in development
• Development and testing in a Linux environment
• Experience with ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading)
• Experience with Database visualization tools (Tableau and Excel preferred)
• Experience with trouble-shooting and tuning data processing components/scripts

Highly desired skills

• Experience with Distributed Systems
• Working knowledge of scalable data architectures (e.g. Hadoop)
• Exposure to full development lifecycle: requirements generation, project planning, implementation, unit testing, documentation, deployment

Position will be located in Plano, Texas. Qualified applicants should email your resume to DallasHR@KingsIsle.com, and include “Senior Software Engineer (Data Warehouse/BI) ” in the email subject heading.

Location: Plano, TX

Description: Creative and skilled technical professional is needed to help design, implement and support services and features within the Data Warehouse. You will be responsible for creative and timely solutions that support KingsIsle’s business objectives.

Successful candidates possess the following traits:

• Ability to work independently and in small teams
• Good communication skills
• Good problem solving skills
• Good work ethic

Required Skills
Candidates must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering and have demonstrable skills in the following technologies:

• Database/SQL (with emphasis on MySQL)
• Data Modeling and System Level Architecture Design
• Java/C++ Experience
• Perl or other similar modular scripting languages
• Object oriented design and the use of patterns in development

Highly desired skills

• Development and testing in a Linux environment
• Experience with ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading)
• Experience with Database visualization tools (Tableau and Excel preferred)
• Knowledge of Distributed Systems

Position will be located in Plano, Texas. Qualified applicants should email your resume to DallasHR@KingsIsle.com, and include “Associate Software Engineer (Data Warehouse/BI)” in the email subject heading.