Work at Big Huge

Responsibilities:

• Play the game so much you know it more than anyone 
• Work with other Designers and Product Managers to maintain game balance and pacing as we add new features 
• Create detailed design specs for new gameplay features 
• Work independently and with other Designers to implement new game content 
• Work with a cross functional team to implement new gameplay features 
• Create, implement, and manage Events and Sales within the game 
• Provide feedback on upcoming features and releases 
• Contribute to the strategic vision for the game from a design perspective 
• Be a sponge for ideas and feedback from players and the rest of the team 

Requirements:

• 4+ years of game design experience, with experience in free-to-play games 
• An understanding of systems design, particularly with the iterative game development process 
• In-depth understanding of live game economy systems, with emphasis on “combat city builders” like Clash of Clans / Boom Beach 
• The ability to work in a game engine and script/code 
• Track record of success working in fast-paced environments with tight deadlines 
• Experience creating detailed feature specs, wireframes, user flows, and design documentation 
• Ability to work in both individual and team settings 
• Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

You will be part of a small team providing support to 50 users, maintaining a small Microsoft/Cisco/Mac network and providing tier 2 support for our helpdesk. Good communication and self motivation are the keys to success. 

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining our Cisco infrastructure with patches, configuration and occasional upgrades.

• Management of our telephony (10 Ringcentral VOIP phones and one fax converter) 

• Maintenance and configuration of our Windows Network

• Service a number of MAC mini build servers.

• Maintain a local VMWare installation

• Management of our Office365 Based Exchange 

• Tier 2/3 support for our helpdesk.

• Occasional assistance with help desk needs during busy times such as imaging/provisioning equipment.

• Tracking and assigning software licenses and SAAS accounts

Qualifications:

• Significant experience in configuring, troubleshooting, and updating Cisco equipment including ASA/FirePower, Aironet (Wireless), Catalyst, AnyConnect VPN and site-to-site VPN tunnels. You should be experienced in installing Cisco patches, working with vendors, and opening TAC tickets as necessary. 

• The ability to perform maintenance and configuration of Microsoft Active Directory 2012/2016, group policies and manage domain security

• Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and Azure

• Knowledge of computer security

• Strong knowledge of Windows/Mac operating systems.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent team and interpersonal skills

• Self-starter with good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize tasks
  
  
  

Bonus Qualifications:

• Amazon AWS

• Redhat/Ubuntu experience

• CI and Build system experience

• Software development experience

• Powershell/Python/Bash

• Willingness to learn unknown items on the bonus list

The ideal candidate will have experience in developing high-quality videos and still assets for user acquisition channels, social media outlets, and mobile game storefronts. You should have strong graphic design sensibilities and the ability to develop logos, brand bibles, and trade show art assets.  You have an excellent eye for developing compelling video and still images, the ability to capture and integrate gameplay footage, and awareness of emerging marketing platforms related to mobile free-to-play games. You will help develop art assets that support the marketing and communications strategy across all channels/touch-points.

Responsibilities:

• Develop art assets for branding, UA, and any additional material related to ongoing and future marketing efforts.
• Work with the marketing director and game art leads to develop the visual identity of the marketing effort for our game titles.
• Maintain a pipeline for converting/creating marketing art assets based on in-game art.
• Work with  internal stakeholders across studio and publisher groups
• Work with the marketing team to identify emerging outlets, methods and best practices for marketing our titles.
• Provide day to day management oversight for members of the marketing art team

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in creating marketing assets.
• Capable of developing cutting-edge marketing videos and art.
• Experience working with 3D and 2D art assets in video / still formats.
• Strong skills in the Adobe CC Suite - After FX, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator, or related software.
• Affinity for mobile games
• Exposure/experience with asset creation for social media platforms and mobile storefronts.
• Work with internal game teams to wrangle assets as needed for marketing/community efforts.
• Ability to articulate artistic vision/direction
• Track record of executing innovative marketing assets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Big Huge Games is looking for a talented Tools Engineer to join our accomplished game development team. You will be part of a highly skilled and innovative group that is responsible for creating world-class games and related technologies, focusing on our internal tools. We are looking for candidates who combine strong programming skills with the ability to work well with others. Your input and technical abilities will help contribute to our long-term development and direction.

The Tools Engineer will work closely with our game development team to build tools and pipelines which empower our teams to deliver industry-leading games. You will be working across all disciplines to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and manual processes that can be automated, improved or streamlined. Once potential improvements have been identified, you will also be responsible for architecting and implementing tool-based solutions. Finally, after deploying and delivering tools, you will continue to iterate with users on our teams to maintain and improve those tools and workflows over time. This is an important and challenging role where you will have the opportunity to make a large impact across our studio and product portfolio!   

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain tools that empower content, development, product, QA, and ops teams to work better, faster, and with less possibility of errors
• Capture and synthesize requirements from multiple teams across different disciplines (Design, Art, QA, Product, Engineering) on what tools are required
• Be a ‘customer’ focused champion for efficient tool-based content creation, live ops, and dev ops
• Hold regular stakeholder meetings to gather feedback on your tools and make changes as required
• A focus on test automation
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years experience in game development, software engineering or related industry
• Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, algorithms, and data structures
• Software engineering skills, including the ability to write maintainable and robust code
• Expertise in front-end web development as well as back-end web technologies and services (REST, React, TypeScript, Spring Servlets, SQL, ASP.NET Core)
• Experience with server side and game development languages and engines (Unity, C#, .NET Core, Java, Redis, Memcached)
• Experience developing in and supporting all stages of the development lifecycle
• Ability to architect systems from scratch
• Ability to understand, evaluate and utilize a wide variety of different technologies when architecting tools solutions
• Strong oral and written communications with excellent team and interpersonal skills

Beneficial Experience

• Basic understanding of performance implications of caching, networking, storage, and concurrency
• Experience building large-scale, high-performance, maintainable software
• Ability to work in a non-traditional web development role, focusing on strong and responsive UX
• Git, TeamCity, Vault
• Experience with Test Driven Development