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El Segundo, CA
Kojima Productions Los Angeles (West Los Angeles, CA)
- Senior Graphic Engine/Tools Programmer
- Senior Gameplay Programmer
- Senior Network Programmer
- Senior Character Artist
- Senior Environment Artist
- Senior Animator
- Senior Cinematics Animator
- Senior Technical Artist
- Senior FX/Lighting Artist
- Senior Concept Artist
- Senior Game Designer
- Senior Game Level Designer
- Senior Multiplayer Designer
- Senior Project Manager
San Mateo, CA
Manhattan, NY
- There are no openings at this time.
Bilingual QA Tester - German
Konami Digital Entertainment Localization team is currently looking for bilingual QA Testers based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
The QA Tester will do linguistic and functional QA testing for the German version of our games.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform QA tests checking text for context relevancy, content consistency, grammar and spelling in game and printed materials
- Follow through on bug tracking and regression testing as directed by Project Lead
- Provide feedback to ensure that the content and quality of all documents for creative services and external publishers such as manuals, strategy guides and advertisements correspond with the most current localized assets
- Ability to test comfortable in the German language
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Able to read, write and speak German and English fluently
- Strong written communication skills
- Detailed-orientated and organized
- Highly motivated with proven ability to work with various personality types and work styles in a multicultural environment
- Team player with great communication skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Able to do overtime
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Previous testing experience
- Enjoy singing and is passionate about pop culture
- Understanding of the software test cycle process
- Working knowledge of QA methodology, terminology and tools
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Card Business - Graphic Design Intern
Konami Digital Entertainment's Card Division (responsible for producing the #1 Trading Card Game in the world) is seeking an intern to work in their Graphic Design/Production department. This position will provide valuable experience in working within a team environment on a fast-paced schedule. We will provide all necessary equipment and training.
This is an unpaid internship. Compensation, via college credit, is offered. Start ASAP through September.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Building sales and marketing material, based on existing templates
- Creating product mockups (digital and physical)
- Localization of marketing and sales material into various languages
- Resizing of imagery
- Masking and image editing
- Sssist and support design/production staff
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Card Business - Senior Sales Coordinator
Description of responsibilities and accountabilities:
- Work with Product Development, Operations, Production to provide Sales with tools to sell product, including UPCs, Fact Sheets, Solicitations, and Catalogs
- Oversee all packaging for accuracy with legal lines and product UPCs
- Work closely with Sales and Product Development to be intimately familiar with product configurations and answer questions as needed
- Work with Sales, Events and Product Development to promote the Brand at consumer and trade shows to increase Brand awareness, including working with Production to get physical or digital mock-ups
- Work with Associate Online Manager to ensure the product catalog online is up to date
- Work with outside vendors to ensure the Brand is adequately represented in trade and distributor publications
- Lead Sales Efforts at Official Tournament Stores (OTS) to maximize sales, create timely promotions and work with OTS Liaison and Events to increase brand exposure at OTS, including the handling of OTS rewards
- Oversee all OTS-only retail products, from sales efforts and build quantities
- Oversee inventory and product listings on B2B site; work with Sales to minimize inventory and maximize sales, including exit strategies, such as holiday promotions and campaigns
- Track inventory and work directly with vendors on the fulfillment of sample requests
- Work with Sales and Marketing on case topper/MDF items, from conception to creation. Ensure proper shipping and fulfillment to distributors, and account resolution with the Accounting Department.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS preferred
- 2-3 years experience in a Coordinator role preferably Product or Brand Coordination
- Familiarity with Hobby and Tournament stores
- Knowledge of, or the willingness to learn about marketing tools including Brand Positioning, Packaging Development, Promotional Activities, Communication
- A high level of detail orientation
- Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
- Professional, with exceptional interpersonal skills
- Proven ability to work with various personality types and work styles in a multicultural environment in a team environment
- Strong Communication skills both verbal and written
- Expert with MS office suite (Power Point, Excel, Word)
- Japanese ability a plus
- Knowledge of Yu-Gi-Oh! and other Trading Card Games a plus
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Online Developer
Skills:
- B.S. in technology related field or relevant work experience as Web Developer or Internet Web engineering experience in an online media company or similar fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated knowledge of Web-services, Service Oriented Architectures, and MVC framework
- Expert in PHP, MySQL and MS SQL
- Fluid with HTML/CSS/JS/XML
- Strong Linux/UNIX skills including cron and shell scripting
- Experience designing and deploying new systems in an online environment
- Ability to be on call 24/7 and work under pressure
- Strong general troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Team player with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to self-manage time and resources as well as work in a team environment
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Quality Assurance Bilingual Tester - Japanese
Konami Digital Entertainment Localization team is currently looking for bilingual QA Testers based in the Greater Los Angeles area.
The QA Tester will do linguistic and functional QA testing for the Japanese version of our games.
Responsibilities:
- Perform QA tests checking text for context relevancy, content consistency, grammar and spelling in game and printed materials
- Follow through on bug tracking and regression testing as directed by Project Lead
- Provide feedback to ensure that the content and quality of all documents for creative services and external publishers such as manuals, strategy guides and advertisements correspond with the most current localized assets
- Ability to test comfortable in the Japanese language
Qualifications:
- Able to read, write and speak Japanese and English fluently
- Strong written communication skills
- Detailed-orientated and organized
- Highly motivated with proven ability to work with various personality types and work styles in a multicultural environment
- Team player with great communication skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
Desired Qualifications:
- Previous testing experience
- Enjoy singing and is passionate about pop culture
- Understanding of the software test cycle process
- Working knowledge of QA methodology, terminology and tools
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Senior Manager, Platform Analyst
Senior Manager, Platform Analyst manages data integrity, analysis, and reporting on Konami's online, mobile, gaming and CRM platforms' performance and campaigns. Works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to analytics and leads in-depth analyses to uncover drivers of user behavior. Create tests and deliver projections for changes to product and program roadmap. Manage campaign execution and drive adoption of best practice
Responsibilities:
- Create holistic dashboards by pulling data from different sources and websites for presentation.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of larger campaigns & platform performance.
- Develop core insights from data to suggest, create and execute tests that drive fundamental improvements to the site experience.
- Develop A/B and multivariate tests to drive platform and campaign improvements
- Perform marketing campaign and investment analysis for online advertising, website and platform related activities.
- Deliver online customer analyses such as user response, web site conversions, feature usage and attrition rates.
- Track user behavior and arrive at finding key consumer behavior insights.
- Define and implement routine reports (weekly/monthly) for marketing campaigns.
- Aid in developing and adoption of best practices based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Qualifications:
- Experience in working with standard clickstream analysis tools such as Omniture, WebTrends, CoreMetrics, and Google Analytics.
- Sound knowledge in Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau, Business Objects, MicroStrategy and Cognos.
- Experience in SEM/SEO strategies and measurement of success in SEM/PPC and SEO campaigns/efforts.
- Experience with loyalty programs.
- Excellent communication skills with all levels of end users and technical resources.
- Exposure to project management skills, business process redesign principles, tools and techniques an advantage.
Required:
- Bachelor's degree required. MBA preferred
- At least 2-5 year experience managing larger, more complex and cross functional projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
Sr. System Engineer/Administrator
A senior production system and IT engineer that works with studio core technology group and various team key leads to design and select optimal software and hardware options for internal single/multiplayer game development teams. Work with tools engineers and tech artists to design, enhance, and improve the best practice art production environment for various art groups. Work with core online tech group to assist in designing client and online game sever architect and provide their optimal software and hardware options. Design, build, and maintain studio network and security system. Configures, deploys and maintains software and hardware systems for the production team. Serves as first-and second-level resource to respond to problems and to implement planned support, tools installations and upgrade projects. Monitors and responds to trouble reports, troubleshoots problems and provides feedback. Develops and maintains internal development tools. Monitors and troubleshoots mission-critical software, hardware, and server systems for availability and reliability. Supervises up to 2 employees Note Masters degree and 2 years of experience can be substituted with Bachelors degree plus 5 years of experience as systems engineer or administrator in video game industry. Employer will give due consideration to any suitable combination of education, work experience or training including degrees in other fields if such combination is equivalent to the actual minimum requirements of the position offered and shows demonstrable ability in the required skill set. Applicant must be proficient with scripting languages such as shell programming, Perl or Tcl. Has good understanding of relational database concepts and is familiar with Windows, Macintosh, UNIX , LINUX and/or NT systems. Please send resume to kdehr@konami.com
Kojima Productions Los Angeles (West Los Angeles, CA)
Senior Graphic Engine/Tools Programmer
Defining and developing cutting edge 3D rendering technology within the constraints of the target system and performance characteristics of the game and engine as wells as all aspects of various game development pipelines and tools.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of professional experience in creating 3D graphic libraries for PC/PS3/Xbox360
- Deep knowledge and understanding on the latest CG technologies and production environment.
- Excellent 3D math and physics skills
- Excellent C/C++ programming skills
- Highly skill in performance optimization
- Familiar with the test driven development practice/environment
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles
- BS in computer science/engineering or equivalent skill set
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Defining and developing the technology, systems and tools programming for the core foundation of 3D action game.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional Gameplay Programmer for PC/PS3/Xbox360 for action games
- Excellent C/C++ language programming skills
- Familiar with the test driven development practice/environment
- Excellent 3D math skills
- Ability to approach the complex issues and problems creatively and flexibly
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles
- BS in computer science/engineering or equivalent skill set
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Network Programmer
Defining and developing core foundation and key features for multiplayer functionality for next generation game systems.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of professional experience in creating large-scale online games for PC/PS3/Xbox360
- Experience in working with Xbox/Windows Live, Sony Playstation Network, or Steam.
- Experience in designing, creating, and maintaining multiplayer game services and systems
- Excellent C/C++ language programming skills.
- Experience implementing networked gameplay, AI, or physics.
- Data mining experience.
- Exceptional 3D Math skills
- Familiar with the test driven development practice/environment
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- BS in computer science/engineering or equivalent skill set
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Character Artist
Creating high quality 3D character/weapons/accessories and textures with combining traditional fine art and technical art skills for use in gameplay and cinematics. Designing and generating the hi-rez rendered 3D images for marketing materials.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of experience as professional 3D Character Artist in game, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Ability to create organic models (human faces, clothing, imaginary creatures)
- Ability to create hard surface models (weapons, armor)
- Ability to create highpoly and lowply models and textures
- Experience creating/tuning surface shaders a plus
- Excellent skills in using major 3D software (Maya/Softimage/Mudbox/ZBrush)
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 2 or more published titles or equivalent commercial released products.
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design or Computer Art & Design (Konami will consider all combinations of education and equivalent skills sets gained through experience)
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Environment Artist
Creating high quality 3D environment models and textures with combining traditional fine art and technical art skills for use in gameplay and cinematics.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as professional 3D Environment Artist in game, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Have good color theory and technical expertise in architectural layout, lighting, scene composition, and environmental FX.
- Expertise in architectural and organic modeling
- Ability to approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly
- Experience creating/tuning surface shaders a plus
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment
- Excellent skills in using major 3D software (Maya/Max/Mudbox/Zbrush)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 2 or more published titles or equivalent commercial released products.
- BS Degree in Fine Arts - Animation & Visual Effects, Graphic Arts, Computer Art & Design, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent skill set.
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Animator
Creating realistic and stylized motions with combining traditional animation and latest technical art skills for use in 3D action games.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as professional 3D Animator in game, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Strong knowledge of staging, posing, weight, compositions, and timing in 3D animation
- Experience in creating high-end/AAA titles and in-game animation
- Excellent key frame animation skills in mechanics and imaginary creatures
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent skills in using major 3D software (Maya/Softimage)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 2 or more published titles or equivalent commercial released products.
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Cinematics Animator
Creating all cinematics related storytelling in the game including visual directions, character and facial animations, lip syncing, camera work and storyboards development collaborating with creative leads. Making/editing trailers for product pitch and marketing presentation materials.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional Cinematic Animator in game, post/video production, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Excellent understanding of cinematography, storytelling, lighting as well as composition
- Experience working with actors in a mocap studio
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in a feature film production a plus
- Excellent skills in using major 3D software package (Maya/Softimage)
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Technical Artist
Working with programmers to develop and maintain new art tools, processes and technologies for real time game engine. Designing the content creation guidelines and optimizing the generated contents for memory and performances. Providing the technical solutions and support to artists and continuously developing faster and efficient art production pipelines.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of professional experience in developing art tools and plug-ins for PC/PS3/Xbox360 game title development.
- Excellent knowledge of modeling, lighting, texturing/shading, rendering, rigging, skinning, and visual effects.
- Excellent aesthetic sense as well as production pipeline technical knowledge.
- Experience in developing tools with Python for Maya, Softimage, or 3D Max.
- Cg/HLSL shaders , C/C++, and C# programming skills a plus.
- Familiar with the test driven development practice/environment.
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- BS degree in Graphic Arts, Computer Art & Design, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent skill set.
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior FX/Lighting Artist
Creating effects and lighting materials for use in gameplay and cinematics.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional FX/Lighting Artist in post/video production, game, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Excellent knowledge of particle effect tools and advanced FX and lighting in a real-time game engine
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent knowledge of animation in mechanics and imaginary creatures
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills
- Experience in using major 3D software (Maya/Max/Softimage/AfterEffects)
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Concept Artist
Creating original and imaginative but realistic concept art for characters, environments and any other game assets.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional concept artist in post/video production, game, VFX, or feature animation studio
- Excellent drawing skills in both traditional and digital formats
- Excellent eye for light, value, weight, color and composition
- - Ability to understand gameplay elements that are important to gameplay and translate them into visuals that excel the gameplay experience.
- Strong visual storytelling skills.
- Experience in using major 3D software package (Maya/Max/Softmage) a plus
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Game Designer
Creating and designing specification for game character actions/mechanics as well as weapons. Creating and designing specifications for boss battles, key game events and AI. Working with artists and programmers to create asset list for models, sounds, and animations for game design implementation.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional game play designer for PC/PS3/Xbox360 for action games
- Ability to come up with innovative ideas and demonstrate them with comprehensive visual materials and references
- Excellent skills in analyzing game system management and surrounded game design issues.
- Experience in maintaining and tuning both single and multiplayer game balance
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Game Level Designer
Creating and designing solid, visually stunning environments and mission scenarios for single and multiplayer 3D action games.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games.
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional single and multiplayer level game designer for PC/PS3/Xbox360 for action games
- Experience using major 3D modeling tools
- Experience creating and adjusting events and AI script languages
- Skills in drawing realistic buildings and natural geological features suitable for the game concept
- Interested in the process of creating the game itself by planning and designing the game settings
- Ability to rationally analyze the good and bad of a game designs
- Excellent understanding of integrating visual look and effects to enhance gameplay experience
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach the complex issue creatively and flexibly in a time constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Full production life cycle experience from initial concept through release for at least 2 titles
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Multiplayer Designer
Designing engaging and enduring multiplayer experiences including map layouts, modes of play, mechanics and systems. Relentlessly playtesting, iterating upon, balancing and tuning all facets of online play.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of experience as a professional single or multiplayer level game designer for PC/PS3/Xbox360 action games
- Experience using major 3D modeling tools
- Experience scripting gameplay
- Ability to facilitate formal and informal playtest sessions and quickly implement feedback
- Ability to create rough geometry level layouts to support a variety of modes
- Ability to analyze and critique game design and core systems
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach complex issues creatively and flexibly in a time-constrained environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
Senior Project Manager
Collaborating with different creative leads to facilitate communication, maintain and track the product development activities and documents. Ensuring the production tasks are completed in timely. Working with different creative leads to assess and determine appropriate resources and time schedule through to its completion. Assisting the studio head and creative leads with any organizational and studio operational tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
- Strong passion to make top quality games
- Over 4 years of experience as production schedule and resource management role for PC/PS3/Xbox360 action games
- Experience in working highly complex product development processes and maintaining and tracking the schedule and resources.
- Excellent understanding of software development process, project management, and performance management
- Ability to stay on schedule and approach complex issues creatively and flexibly in a time-constrained environment.
- Highly proficient in Conflucence/JIRA/MS Excel/MS Power Point.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate and mediate issues between various different production and creative leads and staffs
- Art, Computer Science, or Engineering degree or background a plus.
Please e-mail your resume to: KJPLA@konami.com
San Mateo, CA
Social/Mobile Games - Business Development Officer
Location: San Mateo, California
Business Development Officer is a professional who coordinates the business of multiple companies or developers, platformers, licensers and others and also has the challenging tasks of identifying business opportunities for an organization and managing key client relationships.
Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Set sales targets and define strategy to achieve these targets. Follow the strategy punctually.
- Manage the proposal development process and maintain the time-lines for the proposal teams.
- Coordinate with developers, platformers and licensers concerning size, standards, conditions and timing of research.
- Develop draft proposals based on team meetings and discussions.
- Maintain the Business Development databases.
- Support marketing activities.
Skills:
- Experience in business development and liaison with multiple companies, developers, platformers, licensers and so on. Over three years of experience in those fields would be a plus.
- Strong negotiating skills and planning business strategies.
- Solid business connections within the social networking arena, game and mobile services industry.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced social gaming industry. Ability to adjust strategies and plans depending on business situations.
- Strong communication skills. The ability to effectively contribute to the team.
Please e-mail your resume to: job_pro@konami.com
Social/Mobile Games - Backend Engineer / PHP Developer
Location: San Mateo, California
Konami is looking for a strong backend engineer to join our growing team. Candidate will be responsible for owning the development and architecture of our up-and-coming games. Konami will aggressively invest into a new Social Gaming field and have a team to dedicate to contribute our growth in that field. We need engineers who love and are passionate to innovate and create new content.
Responsibilities:
- The best candidates will have solid experience developing web applications utilizing Web 2.0 technologies and a love of games
- You will be addressing critical issues on some of our biggest game titles, which have several million users across multiple social networks. You must be able to write coherent, organized code and be comfortable working on a complicated code-base with high levels of abstraction
- You will also be maintaining game management tools for non-engineer usage for our live products
- Facebook platform, mobile gaming platform and scaling experience is a huge plus.
Requirements:
- Backend API creation experience
- Object Oriented PHP experience
- Understanding of LAMP server (Linux Apache MySQL, PHP)
- Understanding of the MVC system (model view controller)
- Cloud server database management experience
- Facebook platform experience
- Good Web Experience: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, REST, JSON, etc.
Preferences:
- Familiarity with Flash/Action Script
- Experience with Subversion
- Helping maintain analytic reporting/analysis tools
- iOS and Android software development experience
Please e-mail your resume to: job_pro@konami.com
Social/Mobile Games - Lead Artist
Location: San Mateo, California
Konami is looking for a Senior/Lead Artist to join our growing San Mateo studio. The ideal candidate will have experience working on game asset creation on mobile products (from concept to release). They will have previous experience in a lead capacity and be comfortable creating and directing a project's visual style. This person will play a key role in the growth of the studio and help mentor less experienced artists.
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with the team to help create a visually compelling experience
- Assist with skill development and mentoring of internal artists
- Create game assets for use on all mobile platforms
- Create style guides and technical guides on art asset creation and pipelines.
Requirements:
- 5+ years' experience in game development
- Solid 2D & 3D art skills demonstrated on shipped titles
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Flash/Illustrator)
- Experience working from concept to production
- Experience in 3D software
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic
- Ability to work as part of a collaborative dev team, ideally with experience in guiding and mentoring artists
- High attention to detail and able to give succinct feedback to elevate quality
Desired Skills:
- Previous iOS modeling experience
- Previous small team experience
- Previous AGILE/scrum experience
- Genuine enthusiasm to learn new tools and techniques
- Passion for games
Please e-mail your resume to: job_pro@konami.com
Social/Mobile Games - Lead Artist
Location: San Mateo, California
Konami is looking for a skilled UI Artist to join our growing San Mateo studio. The ideal candidate will have designed and implemented the UI for two or more shipped products. They will have a keen eye for effective design and value usability and functionality as well as high aesthetic values.
Responsibilities:
- Guide the creation of new UIs in mobile/social games.
- Drive the look and feel of the UI including (color palette, icons, typography, etc.)
- Work collaboratively with the team to help create a visually compelling experience.
- Create game ready UI elements for use on Android and iOS platforms.
- Create style guides and technical guides on UI art asset creation and pipelines.
Requirements:
- 2+ years' experience in game development
- Solid UI art skills demonstrated on shipped titles
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Flash/Illustrator)
- Experience working from concept to production
- Ability to communicate visually, and to identify and define issues and solutions
- Self-motivated with a strong work ethic
- Ability to work as part of a collaborative dev team
- High attention to detail and able to give succinct feedback to elevate quality
Desired Skills:
- Ability to quickly build functional prototypes in Flash
- Previous Android/iOS UI art experience
- Previous small team experience
- Previous AGILE/scrum experience
- Genuine enthusiasm to learn new tools and techniques
- Passion for games
Please e-mail your resume to: job_pro@konami.com
Senior Director of Licensing
Location: Manhattan, NY
The Senior Director of Licensing will be responsible for developing and implementing a licensing strategy that maximizes the exposure for popular children's brand including animated television series and licensed merchandise program.
Scope and responsibilities:
- Develop strategic marketing vision and licensing business opportunities to relaunch the brand.
- Identify potential licensees and evaluate current licensees for renewal; secure licensing relationships consistent with business strategy and vision
- Identify new product ideas and development strategies
- Pursue appropriate licensing, retail and promotional alliances to maximize sales and distribution
- Develop and execute multi-faceted advertising, merchandising and promotional programs with internal creative team and licensees
- Assess existing and potential markets, including understanding market trends, consumer needs and business opportunities. Continuous research of competitive markets for specific product categories, including positioning and distribution
- Work closely with Licensing Director to develop and create tools to communicate the brand identity, including sales presentations and marketing materials
- Coordinate with International agents to ensure materials, plans and best practices are shared across markets
- Develop and manage comprehensive financial plans, including analyzing sales data and budgeting both expenses and revenues
- Negotiate terms of licensing deals in conjunction with Business and Legal Affairs
- Maintain and analyze pertinent data with internal departments
Experience and Skills:
- 10-15 years sales and merchandise licensing experience, new business development experience a plus
- Ability to lead and manage creative projects and marketing services
- Extensive reporting experience (financial and statement) and the ability to analyze and interpret data.
- Strategic thinker, strong communication writing and presentation skills
- Poised and confident with the ability to interact with a wide variety of people.
- Collaborative, partnering and team oriented.
- Strong project management, planning and development skills.
- Multi-task oriented. Well organized. Able to manage diverse projects.
- Advanced computer skills in Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Education:
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in business or related field. MBA preferred.
Please e-mail your resume to: kdehr@konami.com
