Vacancies of the week (August 24)

Wanted: sound producer at RJ Games, project manager at WAZZAPPS and editor of commercial publications at WN Media Group.

The selection was prepared by Marina Lopatina, Director of Business Development of Talents In Games. Recall that this is a job search service and a recruitment agency.

Marina LopatinaSound Producer at RJ Games (Moscow, Russia)

RJ Games is working on the Puzzle Breakers project, a fantasy game in the match-3 RPG genre. The studio is looking for an experienced sound producer who will deal with the musical style of the game.

Responsibilities:

• formation of a concept for the sound design of both the entire game and its specific elements;
• structuring and design of information about the sound in the game;
• production of reference sounds (in-house or outsourced);
• the formation of technical tasks, the issuance of feedback and the acceptance of work from outsourcing teams.

Requirements:

• independent work experience;
• experience working with refs and a positive attitude to this approach;
• experience working with mobile projects, understanding the specifics of creating and using sounds for such projects;
• the ability to find a common language and negotiate with different people;
• love for his profession.

Puzzle BreakersProject Manager at WAZZAPPS (Novosibirsk, Russia)

WazzApps is a Novosibirsk—based mobile developer whose portfolio includes games such as Human Evolution, TapTower, Idle Streamer and Idle Beauty Salon. Now the company needs a project manager.

Responsibilities:

• define and coordinate criteria for the readiness of project tasks with stakeholders, as well as analyze their requirements;
• plan project stages, estimate deadlines, decompose tasks and monitor the timeliness and quality of their implementation;
• to ensure the achievement of the project result by solving all the problems that arise in the process;
• take part in making key decisions on the project;
• identify and manage risks in the project;
• configure and improve processes, implement changes, scale them to the whole company;
• manage the team, motivate it and develop it.

Requirements:

• work experience as a project manager in the field of IT for at least one year;
• knowledge of basic project management methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Kanban) and the ability to apply them;
• ability to form a technical task for the development team (GD, ART, DEV, UI/UX) and maintain project documentation;
• ability to negotiate, present and explain;
• accuracy, organization and focus on results;
• ability to build relationships with different people, optimism and empathy;
• experience in hiring and developing a team.

Idle Beauty SalonEditor of commercial publications in WN Media Group (Saint Petersburg, Russia or remotely)

The IT company WN Media Group organizes conferences and develops services focused on gaming companies. In addition, the company develops its own media. One of them is a Russian—language business publication App2Top.ru , which highlights the business side of game development.

Responsibilities:

1. Support of paid publications:

• discussion with the sales department of publications offered by advertisers (to accept or not);
• discussion with advertisers of publication formats (including selection/inventing topics for paid publications).

2. Writing and editing materials based on the advertiser’s wishes, taking into account the editorial policy:

• writing questions for paid interviews;
• working out the structure of paid materials;
• editing of incoming advertising materials in accordance with the editorial policy;
• verification of advertising texts at the level of facts and logic;
• style editing;
• sometimes you will have to rewrite the material from and to.

3. Publication of materials:

• publication of advertising texts on the website;
• publication of advertising creatives (all banner ads on the site).

Requirements:

• English language proficiency at the Upper intermediate level;
• good knowledge of grammar and rules of the Russian language;
• work experience in a commercial publication (preferably in gaming or business journalism);
• interest in the gaming industry (who makes games and how, on what principle does the gaming market live, what are the leaders) and willingness to dive into this topic;
• understanding the theory and principles of editing;
• the ability to find an approach to any advertiser or client and to defend your point of view in a reasoned manner;
• responsible attitude to their tasks, the ability to work quickly and accurately with large amounts of information, as well as the desire to develop and learn new things;
• calm attitude to edits and the ability to write questions and materials on the brief.