ohai is currently hiring/contracting for the following positions for our San Mateo, California office. Remote contractors will be considered. If you're interested, please send your resume, portfolio, samples, and/or links to other things you've worked on to: jobs at ohai dot com
Aug 18, 2010
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Do you love online games and social media? Do you love how technology brings people together in meaningful and powerful ways? Do you believe that playfulness and fun are important components in our everyday lives? Are you a voracious consumer of new social media tools? Do you love online communities like Flickr, Quora, Tumblr or Etsy?
Ohai is looking for a proactive Community Manager to serve as the voice of the company, our products, and our customers. You will work closely with our executives, our product and development team, and our marketing/PR team to help us build robust communities around our games.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring the highest level of community happiness and satisfaction possible
- Serving as the voice of the player, including addressing player inquiries and complaints in a firm, impartial, authoritative and empathetic manner on an ongoing basis
- Architect the right processes to help us tap into our communities’ passion into word of mouth campaigns
- Identify, engage and reward community influencers and advocates; run our volunteer moderator program
- Manage community forums and company blogs, including posting news, announcements, promotions, and FAQs
- Develop and maintain official company best practices around community and code of conduct
- Analyze customer data, statistics, and user trends to help us drive product development
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in community management or customer service
- Previous experience playing online games and understanding of the cultural idiosyncrasies of online game communities preferred
- Strong understanding of community dynamics and the behavior/trends/growth of online communities
- Must be very diplomatic and have superb communications skills
- Must have strong time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks.
- Game and social media experience is preferred
- We like hacker mentalities – people who enjoy doing whatever it takes to get something done and people who have the ability to improvise and problem solve effectively
- Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Competitive salary, stock options & 401k
- Full benefits including dental, vision, healthcare
- When you contact us regarding this listing, please put the word PuP into your subject line so we know that you’ve read this entire listing. Thank you! =)
Jul 23, 2010
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Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years game industry QA experience, with a minimum of 2 years in a relevant QA management or Lead QA role.
- Must have experience working within game development or publishing QA.
- Excellent understanding of formal test and development processes.
- Proven expertise with bug/task tracking products such as FogBugz, Trac, and Pivotal Tracker.
- Experience managing and performing automated web testing on a platform such as Selenium highly preferred.
- Knowledge of various unit test frameworks (ASUnit, CppUnit), mock frameworks (Mockito, EasyMock, GoogleMock) and code coverage analyzers (Ecl, Emma).
- Able to implement testing into current continuous integration system.
- Able to organize and manage non-biased playtesting and focus testing groups.
- Preferably experienced in social, MMO, and/or web games.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and varying personalities with minimal supervision.
- Adept at working on products with ongoing iterations, as opposed to the standard ‘brick and mortar’ products.
- Strong collaboration & influencing skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent ability to communicate with Artists, Producers, and Engineers via voice or writing.
- Deep knowledge of video games, the industry, and current social game markets a plus.
- Adept with Office suite products.
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science preferred.
Responsibilities
- Owns the management of all game development QA processes and tools.
- Manages QA team and coordinates & delegates tasks within the team.
- Ensures QA team is reporting and tracking defects or any assigned tasks in effective and timely manner.
- Coordinates any 3rd party QA efforts, including compatibility testing.
- Generates reports indicating projects’ QA status and coordinates with appropriate team members.
- Communicates with Producers and Leads to ensure testing requirements of development are completed.
- Responsible for creating test plans for all products.
- Actively revises and improves QA strategy on an ongoing basis.
- Assists Producers in task & resource scheduling from Pre-Production through Final.
Jul 23, 2010
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Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional and advanced leadership experience in entertainment and/or web games. Social or MMO games a plus.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Arts, Graphic Arts, or a related field is required. Masters a plus.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and varying personalities.
- Strong understanding of efficient techniques for game art asset production.
- Proven ability to think conceptually about projects and brand, while developing and evolving over time creative systems/processes.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Excellent ability to communicate with Artists & Designers via voice or writing.
- Strong collaboration & influencing skills and attention to detail.
- Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
- Extremely proficient in Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and other 2D design-oriented software programs.
- Experience with HTML CSS is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Creates concepts & key art examples to define overall look and feel for games being developed.
- Supports all visual direction with clear written & verbal communication to the development team.
- Manages & mentors internal artists day to day, by setting goals, reviewing and giving feedback on work, writing reviews, and providing ongoing performance feedback.
- Collaborates with Producers to create & assist with managing project schedules and art resource planning.
- Collaborates with Marketing to drive art direction on websites and other promotional materials.
- Manages art review process and conducts critiques with clear and concise direction to the art team.
- Collaborates with Designers to ensure games are accessible to users and have intuitive UI.
- Works with Producers to develop and manage team’s outsourcing capabilities, pipelines, and best practices.
- Work with Engineers and Producers to define technical requirements and optimize pipelines development processes.
- Actively play and analyze gameplay and best practices from competitive games in the social gamespace.
Jul 23, 2010
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Qualifications
- 5+ years of game design experience; experience in social games and/or MMOs highly desired.
- At least 2 years of experience in Lead or Senior role, managing other designers.
- Demonstrated ability to design compelling game mechanics and features, and work closely with others to prototype, develop and refine them.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and varying personalities with minimal supervision.
- Strong collaboration & influencing skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent ability to communicate with Artists, Producers, and Engineers via voice or writing, and able communicate ideas through sketches and/or diagrams.
- Able to critically analyze gameplay mechanics & feature designs, and rapidly conceive achievable solutions to problems.
- Deep knowledge of video games, the industry, and current social game markets, with a passion for the craft of game design.
- Demonstrated knowledge of game production, programming, and art techniques & issues.
- Expert with math and formulas in game environment.
- Strong knowledge of game balancing and pacing.
- Adept with Office suite products with some art tool software experience.
- Experience with prototyping toolsets a plus.
- Bachelors Degree preferred; Game Design degree a plus.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the design and gameplay implementation in each product, working closely with the Producer and other product Leads.
- Own and manage all phases of game design, including brainstorming, concept inception, game systems & mechanics, story creation, level design, and game flow.
- Manages & mentors game design team day to day, by setting goals, reviewing and giving feedback on work, writing reviews, and providing ongoing performance feedback.
- Manage rapid prototyping and proof of concept development for products.
- Ensure products are designed and developed to meet all established standards for quality, timeliness, budget, technological objectives, and feature set.
- Collaborates with Art Director and Producers to ensure games are accessible to users and has intuitive UI.
- Keep current on industry knowledge of competitive games, successful games, popular and ‘fun’ gameplay mechanics, and consumer demographics within the social game market.
- Naturally predisposed toward collaboration, invitation of peer reviews, and critiquing others’ work in a motivating way.
- Capable of communicating complex game designs clearly and succinctly to both development teams and internal leadership.
