\n\n\nWho We Are:\n\nMAKE LIFE EPIC\n\nFounded in 1996, Firaxis Games is a world-renowned game development studio with an unwavering mission to “build games that stand the test of time”. The name Firaxis, a fusion of “fiery” and “axis,” communicates the company’s dynamic development process that results in the creation of ground breaking titles with unparalleled gameplay delivered to gamers around the world. Under the creative direction of industry legend Sid Meier, Firaxis has released dozens of hit games on multiple platforms and is recognized as an industry leader in game development.\nVISION\n Make Life Epic…for our Players, our Community and all Firaxians.\nCORE VALUES\nBe Accountable\nOwn Outcomes, Be Honest And Treat Feedback As A Gift.\nEmbrace Enthusiasm\nAllow Space For Failure, Share Your Excitement And Let Passion Drive Outcomes.\nPeople First\nTreat People With Respect, Create A Culture Of Belonging And Act With Empathy.\nWork Smart\nSolve For Efficiency, Focus On Collaboration And Prioritize Improvement.\nGameplay Focused\nDeliver Quality Game Experiences, Take Pride In Your Work And Put Players At The Center Of Every Decision.\n\nHistorian Job Summary:\n\nFiraxis Games is looking for a talented, experienced, adaptable historian and writer to join one of our AAA development teams.  The ideal candidate is creative, highly articulate, and capable of collaborating with designers to generate original ideas for characters, content, and narrative.  They must have a strong understanding of story and drama and be capable of contributing in multiple genres.  A strong background in or knowledge of history, as well as the ability to perform and distill historical research to other disciplines, is necessary. Candidates should include their particular area(s) of historical expertise in their cover letter, if applicable.\n\nWhat You Will Do: \n\n•Collaborate with artists, designers, and other team members to create or refine interesting and accurate characters that engage players’ imagination through written dialogue.\n\n•Write and edit dialogue, backstories, lore, story and expository text to a high level of quality with minimal supervision.\n\n•Research historical topics from academic sources and distill the findings into brief explanatory pieces for a general audience in a light and engaging style.\n\n•Drive historical accuracy across multiple departments and provide learning opportunities for other disciplines.\n\n•Understand complex issues in historical topics and explain these complexities to an audience of non-specialists.\n\n•Proactively identify potential issues with writing, stories, art, or design in general and bring potential solutions to the team.\n\n \n\nWhat We Need (Requirements/Must Haves): \n\n•4+ years as a Writer, Narrative Designer, or other position with commensurate duties.\n\n•A degree in History or a History-related field, or commensurate demonstrated experience with academic historical research.\n\n•Advanced knowledge in the discipline of history as well as a broad knowledge of game principles, theories, and concepts.\n\n•Exceptional communications and problem-solving skills.\n\n•A proven track record of communicating complex historical content to a non-specialist audience.\n\n•The ability to adapt tone and style to different genres/game environments.\n\n•An interest and love of history from a variety of perspectives.\n\n•Experience working within the restrictions of localization processes a plus.\n\n•Experience working with game engines and/or common game writing workflows a plus.\n\n•Knowledge of audio design techniques and technology a plus.\n\n \n\nBENEFITS:\n\n•Relocation assistance provided (open to remote)\n\n•Flexible work hours (including hybrid work options)\n\n•401K\n\n•Family friendly work environment\n\n•And more!\n\n\n\nSTUDIO LEGACY:\n\nNamed World’s #1 Developer of the Year by Game Informer Magazine in 2012, Firaxis is very proud of its legacy of developing award winning titles. We have won multiple BAFTAs, D.I.C.E Awards, Game of the Year titles, and category awards (from “Best Strategy Game” to “Best PC Game”) across our products.\n\nAdditionally, our company was also featured in SmartCEO’s “Best-Run Book” for company culture and praised for a focus on “family, fun and flexibility.” Firaxis was also named a finalist in SmartCEO’s Healthiest Company Awards for 2016.\n\nFiraxis Games prides itself on maintaining a quality of life inside and outside the studio – when our team members are happy and healthy, creativity can flourish. We offer boot camp fitness and yoga classes at the office, a free gym with shower, regularly catered lunches and breakfasts, biweekly Friday Happy Hours, company events and parties, and a “FunZone” complete with billiards, foosball, video games, and tabletop gaming space. We are also a philanthropic studio and offer employees the chance to volunteer with local charities and nonprofits throughout the year.\n\nFull Time employees can also take advantage of Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, 401K retirement savings, a wellbeing initiative with the opportunity to earn cash rewards, an Employee Assistance Program, and paid time off and paid holidays.\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer\n\nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.\n\nBy clicking on this link, you consent to the processing of your personal information by 2K Games, Inc. and its affiliate Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. in accordance with the Privacy Notice for Job Applicants (the “Privacy Notice”), available at https://www.2k.com/applicantprivacypolicy/. The Notice provides information about how we use your data and how you can exercise your right of access, rectification or deletion. If you need more information, please contact the Privacy Contact identified in the Notice.\n\nI have read the Notice consent to the collection, processing, transfer and use of my personal information by 2K Games and Take-Two.\n\nPlease note that Firaxis never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews and when emailing, only use 2K.com and Firaxis.com accounts.\n\n#LI-WA1\n#LI-Hybrid \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Design jobs that are similar:\n\n $25,000 — $45,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nAt Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!\n\nSkeleton Key is a new game development studio and division of Wizards of the Coast. We are a group of industry veterans who are guided by the belief that empowering our teams and providing the proper time, tools, and support we can foster a creative culture where everyone can do their best work.\n\nOur new studio is located in Austin, TX, and we are looking for a passionate and dedicated Lead Writer to join us and bring our first AAA game to life. We offer fully remote, hybrid, or in-office options for day-to-day work.\n\nReporting to the Creative Director, you will play a meaningful role on the project by helping to concept, build, set the vision, and implement the story for our critical path as well as cinematic narrative moments. The ideal candidate has proven experience building engaging worlds, characters, and stories in other AAA titles and can take high level direction and story concepts and translate them into complete stories, scene descriptions, and dialogue.\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n\n* Work with the Creative Director to own and drive the main crit path story, side stories, cinematic scripts, and character dialogue for the project.\n\n* Build requirements for core writing/editing, VO, and other narrative systems for narrative production pipelines.\n\n* Collaborate with other teams, and ensure the appropriate partners are involved and advised throughout development.\n\n* Act as a strong quality advocate for the team, crafting compelling narrative moments, environmental story-telling, world-building, character development, and help other team members achieve the same high quality.\n\n* Lead and develop a narrative team including writers and editors, encouraging and empowering them to do great work.\n\n* Build and maintain documentation for all owned features, script, story, and scenes.\n\n* Help evangelize the game’s vision to the rest of the team at large.\n\n* Regularly play the game and provide valuable feedback to teammates to help improve the story and pacing of the experience.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\n\n\n* 5+ years experience having published writing work in video games with a focus on narrative and character.\n\n* Clear and concise creative writing skills with Ability to deliver both original stories and engaging adaptations of existing IPs.\n\n* Familiarity with first-person games.\n\n* Ability to translate story concepts into cohesive and engaging stories.\n\n* Willingness to take high-level direction and feedback.\n\n* Passion for and experience with the science-fiction and fantasy genres.\n\n* Strong communication abilities with outstanding written English skill.\n\n* Please provide links to YouTube/Vimeo videos highlighting 3-5 scenes or moments from your published game projects that highlight your work.\n\n\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer\n\nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video and Non Tech jobs that are similar:\n\n $25,000 — $45,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAustin, Texas, United States

\n\n\nAt Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!\n\nHow would you like to help build the next phenomenal digital product for Dungeons & Dragons®? We are looking for a hardworking, inspirational, and experienced Principal Art Director to join our senior leadership team that brings D&D to life!\n\nAre you…\n\n\n* A driven art director with experience crafting and playing RPGs, especially D&D?\n\n* Looking to work with other high-talent, high-experience developers that share your passions?\n\n* Inherently collaborative, working hands-on with other fields to drive story and world-building?\n\n* Excellent at prototyping games, concepting evocative art, and evangelizing new frontiers for existing IPs?\n\n* Dedicated to your team and project, steadfastly fighting to find solutions whatever the circumstance?\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n\n* Craft a continuous and adaptive aesthetic vision for digital expressions of D&D.\n\n* Encourage a team, a company, and a global audience with the visual storytelling you ignite.\n\n* Share your vision with others by crafting high quality and evocative concept art, mood boards, and motion graphics.\n\n* Advise internal and external resources in the creation of world-class 2D and 3D game experiences.\n\n* Rapidly prototype a variety of concepts to actualize the product vision.\n\n* Manage large-scale outsource vendors to exceed, not just fulfill, the support needed by the team and product.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Bring:\n\n\n* 10+ years crafting art in the video game industry.\n\n* 5+ years as a lead artist or art director.\n\n* A leadership style that thrives with collaboration and engagement with others.\n\n* The ability to build visual examples and direction directly to encourage others.\n\n* Experience working with other artists to develop an outstanding and cohesive visual style.\n\n* Previous involvement leading and collaborating with outsource vendors.\n\n* Knowledge of partnering with IP stakeholders in the digital expressions of their core brand.\n\n* Portfolio demonstrating relevant artistic skills: Only digital artwork submissions such as website, blog or online album will be accepted.\n\n\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer\n\nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Video, Senior and Non Tech jobs that are similar:\n\n $30,000 — $50,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRenton, Washington, United States

\n\n\nAt Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!\n\nAs a Senior Program Manager, Content Management working on D&D Digital, you will drive program and content localization initiatives across teams in the US and Poland to improve WotC’s official D&D digital content and toolset, D&D Beyond.\n\nOur team is looking for a Program Manager that is responsible for the coordination across functions to implement a localized content strategy on D&D Beyond. You will define the needs of the content management system, outline the localization process, and own supporting processes and policies. You are responsible for project milestones and timelines, risk management, and ongoing program deliveries.\n\nYou will build and maintain effective program management processes that improve quality and efficiency. You own delivering content management system features and localized copy when expected and to specifications. You will collaborate with teams across D&D, WotC, and Hasbro, regarding project status, processes, and performance metrics.\n\nStrong remote work experience and both written and verbal communication skills are a must. A solid understanding of, and appreciation for, D&D is a plus.\nWhat You'll Do:\n\n\n* Create and lead multiple concurrent project plans for content tool projects at various levels of scope and complexity.\n\n* Own writing, editing, reviewing, and localizing global copy for the D&D Beyond site.\n\n* Collaborate with UX designers, UX researchers, Product, and Engineers to implement content localization strategy.\n\n* Identify and lead all aspects of vendor management to support content management tools and localization efforts.\n\n* Manage internal and external team dependencies to ensure work is completed on time.\n\n* Communicate program status and performance to peers and leadership.\n\n\n\nWhat You'll Bring: \n\n\n* 5+ years program or project management experience.\n\n* Experience owning program strategy and end to end delivery.\n\n* Experience with content management systems and global localization.\n\n* Experience with external vendor management.\n\n* Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization.\n\n* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.\n\n* Experience using data and metrics to identify and drive improvements.\n\n* Strong attention to detail.\n\n\n\nNice to Have:\n\n\n* Experience writing copy for digital game tools and eCommerce sites.\n\n* Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights.\n\n* Proficiency with project management software, especially JIRA / Atlassian tools.\n\n* Experience with Dungeons & Dragons.\n\n\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer\n\nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $35,000 — $60,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRenton, Washington, United States

\n\n\nFor decades, Wizards of the Coast has connected people around the world through play and imagination, with core games that have defined their genres - Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons®. We want to offer more ways to connect and play as the company grows. And that’s where you come in!\nWhat You’ll Do:\n\nAs a Software Developer for Online Gaming Services, you will develop services and web applications to enable our partners to create connected experiences for our players.\n\n\n* You will work with developers who are building online games, supporting both client SDKs (currently Unity and Unreal) and diverse server technologies.\n\n* We are a full stack team and do everything from web to infrastructure and builds.\n\n* Individuals frequently specialize, but broad familiarity is important You will be involved at every stage of application development from architectural design to production support.\n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Bring:\n\n\n* 2+ years of software development experience in online services.\n\n* Computer science education or similar foundational experience.\n\n* You continually improve your skills, keep abreast of new technologies, and always raise the standard for what is possible on your team.\n\n* You drive improvement and gravitate toward problems that need to be solved.\n\n* You seek feedback and are most concerned with ending up with the best idea, regardless of origin.\n\n* Proven history of delivering customer value and working with others to understand and measure that goal.\n\n* You thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can work on a wide variety of technologies and applications.\n\n* Online Gaming Services is a team owning services built with a wide variety of technologies. You will bring prior expertise in one of the following areas, and have many opportunities to learn new things:\n\n* Cloud infrastructure automation experience.\n\n* Backend Service development at scale. You have participated in service design, understand a variety of databases, and have a working knowledge of enterprise design patterns.\n\n* Datastream processing. You have direct experience with streaming data in systems such as Kinesis, SQS, or Kafka.\n\n* Web Development experience. You are a JavaScript/TypeScript enthusiast and have built dynamic single page applications (SPA) and/or server-side rendered (SSR) web applications.\n\n\n\nNice to Have:\n\n\n* Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.\n\n\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer\n\nThe above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.\n\nWe will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design and Education jobs that are similar:\n\n $42,500 — $90,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRenton, Washington, United States