Job Opportunities
Producer – Casual Games
Backflip Studios is looking for a smart, talented, high-energy Producer to head up our Casual Games division.
As Casual Games Producer at Backflip Studios, you will manage the production of multiple games from initial concept to product release and ongoing updates. Working closely with team leads from Game Design, Art, and Engineering you will have heavy input into all aspects of the game creation process and the responsibility to bring it all together on time. This is a great opportunity to use your skills to help create and extend awesome, fun, casual games loved by millions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage development of multiple products concurrently
- Work with team leads to establish realistic production schedules and product roadmaps
- Ensure milestones are met and products are shipped on-time
- Identify and communicate project risks to team leads and management
- Coordinate QA test cycles for game releases and updates
- Triage, prioritize and assign bugs in the bug tracking system
- Provide game feedback at all stages of development
- Help refine the company’s development process and procedures
Requirements:
- A passion for gaming
- Deep knowledge of casual games and game design
- At least 2-3 years experience in a Producer or Project Manager role
- Solid experience with project management techniques and tools
- Flexibility to deal with changing priorities and limited resources
- Deep understanding of the game development process
- Great communication skills, both written and verbal
Send resume to jobs@backflipstudios.com
UI Artist
Backflip Studios looking for a UI artist with versatility and experience. This candidate should be able to show a variety in UI styles and preferably worked on a variety of games (especially casual games). This person should have some experience designing the functionality as well as the artwork for User Interfaces.
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on several interesting projects with a relatively quick turnaround.
Requirements
- 1-5 years experience in game development Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, or other related software.
- Experience working with unique and very different styles
- Some experience designing UI functionality and flow
- A firm understanding of form, shape, structure, and silhouette
- Self-motivation, good communication skills, and a great team-player attitude
Pluses
- Have mobile or iPhone specific experience.
- Have a graphic design background
- 3D skills
- Animation skills
- Strong foundation in the traditional arts, including but not limited to figure drawing and environmental and/or architectural illustration
Please no recruiters.
To apply email: rjdrag@backflipstudios.com (subject: “Your Name – UI Artist”)
MUST submit a portfolio link or work samples to be considered.
Game Developer
We are looking for smart, creative engineers with programming and game design talent. You will use our game engine to create fun new games for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. You will have a lot of input into the design and visual aspects of the game as well as coding core algorithms and gameplay features.
Requirements:
- At least 3 years professional software development experience
- Strong background in C++
- Experience with one or more scripting languages like Lua, ActionScript, JavaScript
- Solid understanding of 2D/3D graphics and math involved in computer graphics
- Previous iPhone development experience and/or game development experience
- Ability to work fast, quickly get up to speed with existing code, and learn new concepts easily
- Desire to create fun games
If this sounds like a fit for you, please send us a resume, a short list of your favorite games and anything else that might help–like your website or blog, etc.
Please email:
jobs@backflipstudios.com
(subject: “Backflip Game Developer”)
2D/3D Artist
Backflip Studios looking for a skilled 2D/3D generalist. They should have a solid grasp of silhouette, color, and balance for both 2D and 3D art, as well as a flexible style. The ideal candidate will have game experience and be familiar with a 2D pipeline (sprite-sheets, texture budgeting, so on…)
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on several interesting projects with a relatively quick turnaround.
Requirements
•1-5 years experience using 3DS Max and Photoshop (or equivalent programs)
•Skill in several tasks: illustration, modeling, texturing, animation, concept drawing, rendering
Pluses
•Mobile or iPhone specific experience.
•Logo design or graphic design experience
•Strong foundation in the traditional arts
Please no recruiters.
To apply email: rjdrag@backflipstudios.com (Subject: “Your Name – Artist”)
MUST submit a portfolio link or work samples to be considered.
