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 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• 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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• 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

Preferences

• Massively Multiplayer Online 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

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

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 for a Client Software Engineer to work on exciting new family-focused video games for mobile and tablet devices. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Create, test, debug and maintain game code to create compelling player experiences
• Work individually and collaboratively with other programmers, designers, and artists in a creative and fast paced environment to implement features and functionality that create a unique and superior game experience for our customers

Requirements

• Verifiable proficiency with C#
• Verifiable proficiency with Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• Professional gameplay implementation experience
• Experience with version control systems (Subversion, Alienbrain, or similar)
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Good communication skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or some form of Engineering

Preferences

• UI design and implementation experience
• Mobile device development experience
• Experience profiling and optimizing client code
• Experience maintaining live software
• Experience with 3D math and rendering systems
• Unity experience
• Prior shipped game titles

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

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

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for an Associate 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 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work 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

• Bachelor of Science degree
• Familiarity with game development process and game system architecture
• Verifiable proficiency with C++, Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• Architectural experience (client/server preferred)
• Good communication skills
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• 0-2 years of relevant experience
• Real-time and Multi-threaded environments
• Prior distributed system development experience
• Network programming experience (TCP, UDP, optimization, security, NATs, etc.)
• Database development experience
• Knowledge of Linux, Windows, SQL and XML

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

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

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Senior Concept Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Work with art and design to craft and maintain the project's art style and manage concept art creation
• Act as a mentor on a team of talented artists on a new MMO title
• Translate the vision of the designers to concept art and ensure that all work conforms to the technical and stylistic specifications set forth
• Effectively relate vision to developers and artists
• Approach all areas of concept art creation systematically
• Produce a wide variety of drawings, including character, item and environment, that define the look and function of non-photorealistic in-game assets
• Work closely with project leads to define the style and look of the game
• Create storyboards, sketches, in-game 2D screens, layouts and color comps

Requirements

• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• Experience in concept art creation as a senior artist on a project with a team size of 20+ (programmers, artists, animators, designers, testers)
• 6+ years experience as an artist in the games industry
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience communicating well with team disciplines and working within existing project constraints (time, scope, technical)
• Demonstrated drawing skill to sketch and color organics and non-organics, as well as a good sense of lighting
• Good sense of expression, color and form
• Strong ability to create uniquely styled characters & environments, and to match & expand on existing styles
• Respond and adapt to existing art style and direction
• Strong proficiency in Photoshop / Illustrator

Preferences

• Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts or equivalent
• Strong understanding of interrelation between art and game systems in a massively-multiplayer environment
• Candidate must have shipped at least two critically and commercially successful PC and/or console game titles
• Experience using 3DS Max to generate assets
• Understanding of the limitations of 3D rendering of artwork

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Senior Concept Artist” in the email subject heading. For this position, your portfolio should show samples of your artworks (figure, item and environmental) Our interest is primarily in non-photorealistic artwork. Please do not email art samples.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Concept Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will produce a wide variety of drawings, including character, item and environment, that define the look and function of non-photorealistic in-game assets
• Candidate will work closely with project leads to define the style and look of the game
• Candidate will create artwork for promotional and marketing material
• Candidate may create storyboards, sketches, in-game 2D screens, layouts and color comps

Requirements

• Two-year Art degree required (minimum)
• Two to five years experience in game industry
• Candidates must have a demonstrated drawing skill to sketch and color organics and non-organics, as well as a good sense of lighting
• Candidates must have a good sense of expression, color and form
• Strong ability to create uniquely styled characters & environments, and to match & expand on existing styles
• Candidate must be responsive/adaptive to existing art style and direction
• Strong proficiency in Photoshop / Illustrator
• Good verbal and written communication skills, excellent team player
• Ability to contribute to and work within schedules that are assigned

Preferences

• Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts or equivalent
• Listed credit in concept creation for a shipped game
• Experience using 3ds Max to generate assets
• Understanding of the limitations of 3D rendering of artwork

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume and/or a link to your online portfolio to hr@kingsisle.com, and include “Concept Artist” in the email subject heading. Please do not email art samples.

For this position, your portfolio should show samples of your artworks (figure, item and environmental). Our interest is primarily in non-photorealistic artwork.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Flash Animator/2D Artist to work on exciting new family-focused video games for mobile and tablet devices. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will work with engineering and design to craft and maintain the project's art style and manage art asset creation
• Candidate will be expected to translate the vision of the designers to art assets and ensure that all work conforms to the technical and stylistic specifications set forth by the team

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• Strong drawing and conceptualization abilities
• Excellent 2D graphic design skills and UI art creation experience
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash
• Expertise in creating Flash vector art for characters, environments, animation, effects, and user interface
• Skill in art development using Flash tools for web and mobile applications, capable at dealing with layout issues and file size optimization
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Associate’s degree

Preferences

• Traditional animation experience
• Moderate to expert knowledge of Action Script 3.0
• Some knowledge of Unity
• Capability to work within an already established art style

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• Salaries will be commensurate with experience
• Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle

For this position, your portfolio should show examples of concept, UI, and Flash vector assets, preferably with progression from inception to final on some pieces. Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@KingsIsle.com, and include “Flash Animator/2D Artist” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Contract Environment Artist to work on an exciting new family-focused AAA MMO video game. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly 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 environment creation
• Relate game’s art vision to developers and artists
• Approach all areas of environment art creation systematically: render and collision geometry, texture and lighting

Requirements

• Two year Art Degree
• Experience in environment art creation on a project with a team size of 20+ (programmers, artists, animators, designers, testers)
• 3-5 years experience, some game industry experience is preferred
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience communicating well with team disciplines and working within existing project constraints (time, scope, technical)
• Proficient in 3D Studio Max

Preferences

• Strong familiarity with Massively-Multiplayer Online products and online games job experience
• FX experience
• Candidate has shipped at least one critically and commercially successful PC and/or console game title
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• Pay rate will be commensurate with experience
• Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle

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

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Contract 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 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities:

• Work both individually and within a group, with a diverse and experienced team of artists in a creative and fast-paced environment
• Provide 3D modeling and hand-painted texture creation for characters / creatures in a low poly environment (2000 triangles or less for models, 512 x 512 or less for textures)

Requirements

• Two year Art Degree
• Experience in modeling and texturing low poly characters / creatures
• 3-5 years experience, some game industry experience is preferred
• 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

Preferences

• Strong familiarity with Massively-Multiplayer Online products and online games job experience
• FX experience
• Concept Drawing Ability
• Candidate has shipped at least one critically and commercially successful PC and/or console game title
• Experience with Gamebryo game engine

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• Pay rate will be commensurate with experience
• Applicants must be legally able to work in the U.S. for KingsIsle

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 Senior 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 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly 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
• Must be able to author design documents in these areas: level design, player advancement, quests systems, items and power-ups, user interface

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Candidates must have 5+ years as a Designer in the games industry
• Candidate must have shipped at least two game titles
• Extremely strong documentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Extremely strong math skills
• Strong familiarity with Massively-Multiplayer Online products and online games job experience
• Implementation of systems (i.e. balancing tables and underlying game system formulas) will be emphasized over “high concept” design vision experience

Preferences

• Experience designing and implementing turn-based combat systems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

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 Game Designer - Systems” in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Game Designer to work on exciting and innovative games for mobile and tablet devices. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will work to create fun and broadly appealing games for mobile and tablet devices.
• Collaborate with design leadership to design, implement, and iterate on innovative and compelling game experiences (could include control schemes, combat mechanics, level layout, puzzle design, monetization, etc.)
• Strong understanding of interrelated game systems in mobile game environments
• Strong communication skills, ability to effectively relate the design vision and 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
• Strong math skills
• Proven ability to concept, create, and implement game systems (i.e. balancing tables and underlying game system formulas)
• Strong familiarity with mobile games, particularly those with a free-to-play business model
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

Preferences

• Experience prototyping and designing games with shorter development cycles for mobile platforms
• Unity experience

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

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

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Lead Technical Web Quality Assurance Tester. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Operating and extending manual and automated test suites for web/browser-based environment
• Provide rigorous and repeatable testing procedures for web interfaces
• Work with other team members to recommend features and functionality that create a unique and superior web experience for our customers
• Lead a team of Web QA Testers to perform full life-cycle testing on Web products and systems

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• HTML knowledge - 2 years
• Structured Testing - 1 year
• Automated Testing - 6 months
• Critical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Excellent personal presentation, oral, and written skills also required.

Preferences

• Flash Testing
• JavaScript Testing
• HTML/XML Compliance Testing
• JMeter/LoadRunner/Selenium/Watij/ other Testing Tools
• QA Lifecycle Testing (Functional/Performance/Stress)

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com. Please include "Lead Web QA Tester" in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Senior Marketing Data Analyst to support marketing and game design through data and statistical analysis to ultimately optimize business profitability. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Perform data research and analysis in cooperation with marketing, game design and operations
• Understand marketing and game metrics and apply knowledge to find efficiencies and opportunities for enhancements that drive business profitability
• Develop scheduled and ad hoc reports from a variety of sources for marketing and game design efforts
• Work with marketing, operations and other cross-functional teams to develop requirements for ongoing reporting efforts
• Track in-game behaviors/metrics and provide analysis and recommendations for product changes and/or enhancements
• Track online metrics and provide recommendations for website optimization

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in business, statistics or related field, with a heavy statistics orientation
• 7+ years relevant work or academic experience
• Self-starter, able to work independently with a wide degree of latitude and creativity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Solid quantitative background
• Proven track record in presenting complex results to users in an understandable manner
• Experience analyzing data from a variety of sources and types, both internal and external
• Ability to write queries, pull and manipulate data sets and perform data analysis based on large data sets
• Experience applying data mining techniques (i.e., classification, clustering, association mining, forecasting), statistics and information retrieval methods to large data sets
• Strong knowledge of SQL (experience with MySql and Vertica syntax preferred), Excel and other reporting tools

Preferences

• Graduate degree in business, statistics or a related field a plus
• General marketing background
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Experience in online or electronic game industry

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Keywords: Economist, BI Analyst, Business Intelligence, Research, Analytics, Statistician, Statistics, Statistical

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com. Please include "Senior Marketing Data Analyst" in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for a Marketing Data Analyst to support marketing and game design through data and statistical analysis, to ultimately optimize business profitability. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

• Perform data research and analysis in cooperation with marketing, game design and operations
• Understand marketing and game metrics and apply knowledge to find efficiencies and opportunities for enhancements that drive business profitability
• Develop scheduled and ad hoc reports from a variety of sources for marketing and game design efforts
• Work with marketing, operations and other cross-functional teams to develop requirements for ongoing reporting efforts
• Track in-game behaviors/metrics and provide analysis and recommendations for product changes and/or enhancements
• Track online metrics and provide recommendations for website optimization

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in business, statistics or related field, with a heavy statistics orientation
• 3+ years relevant work or academic experience
• Self-starter, able to work independently with a wide degree of latitude and creativity
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Solid quantitative background
• Proven track record in presenting complex results to users in an understandable manner
• Experience analyzing data from a variety of sources and types, both internal and external
• Ability to write queries, pull and manipulate data sets and perform data analysis based on large data sets
• Experience applying data mining techniques (i.e., classification, clustering, association mining, forecasting), statistics and information retrieval methods to large data sets
• Strong knowledge of SQL (experience with MySql and Vertica syntax preferred)
• Very strong knowledge of one or more statistical tools such as R, SAS or Minitab

Preferences

• Graduate degree in business, statistics or a related field a plus
• General marketing background
• Experience with Google Analytics
• Experience in online or electronic game industry

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your cover letter and resume to hr@kingsisle.com. Please include "Marketing Data Analyst" in the email subject heading.

Location: Austin, TX

Description: KingsIsle Entertainment is currently looking for an Online Marketing Analyst to manage KingsIsle’s advertising campaigns. We are the creators of the popular and critically acclaimed Wizard101 and Pirate101, which together have garnered over 35 Million registered players to date, and are two of the fastest growing websites in the U.S. This is an opportunity to be a part of a rapidly growing and highly successful entertainment company.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities
• Manage affiliate advertising partners and campaigns on a daily basis
• Daily upkeep of advertising campaign reports as well as other ad hoc marketing reports
• Research and grow online advertising partners on a continuous basis
• Optimize online programs to key metrics and ROI
• Manage invoicing and advertising contracts
• Work with agency and marketing artists on new banner ad and icon creative

Requirements

• One or more years experience with online advertising program management
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• A Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising studies or a related major from an accredited university

Preferences

• Experience with Google Analytics
• Experience in online or electronic game industry
• Experience with mobile advertising and affiliate partners

Considerations

• Please make sure that the durations of your education and employment on your resume are included in month/year format
• 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

Qualified candidates may apply by emailing your resume to hr@kingsisle.com. Please include "Online Marketing Specialist" in the email subject heading.