by Ronald Barron | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Design Lead, Player/Enemy Systems
Location: Remote/Flexible
Crystal Dynamics is constantly seeking the best gaming talent worldwide to add to our 30-plus year legacy of AAAA game development creating new and iconic franchises. We are committed to making great games with great people and living the dream while doing it.
Benefits for our full-time positions include, but are not limited to, a competitive regional salary, 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance options, professional development reimbursement perk, flexible hybrid on-site/off-site work opportunities, 12 company paid holidays, additional 10 paid days in December when the studio is closed for holiday break, and the ability to accrue weeks of personal paid time-off.
Join us and shape the future of an amazing studio culture committed to creating award-winning franchises like Tomb Raider, the next Perfect Dark, and more!
Come be a part of the future of Tomb Raider! Come be a part of the future of Tomb Raider! We’re looking for a Design Lead to…
- Own a subset of features on a AAA console title, focusing on player and enemy systems
- Work collaboratively with the Game Directors, Leads, and other members of the design team to plan, prototype, and build shared player and enemy systems that align with the game’s overall vision and goals
- Lead a small team of designers, promoting team creativity and growth while ensuring quality standards are maintained
- Create clear, reusable player and enemy systems that are well-documented and can be easily integrated into the game
- Evaluate and initiate processes and features needed to improve and streamline gameplay production
- Maintain, test, and iterate player and enemy system-based features from concept phase to final tuning for an award-winning AAA game
- Document game mechanics and features quickly, clearly, and concisely in a provided specification format to serve as a resource for other designers in the studio to understand the various design concepts and the decisions made that support them
- Collaborate with other disciplines, such as programming and art, to ensure clear communication, troubleshooting, and efficiency
- Maintain up to date knowledge on industry trends as it relates to modern gameplay design for action-adventure games
To be considered for this role, you must have…
- Experience as a lead, principal game designer on a professional game development team, on a high-quality current-gen console title (or equivalent)
- Deep understanding of game design theory and principles of what it takes to make a AAA title
- Experience designing shared player/enemy systems, interaction paradigms, and combat systems
- Familiarity with Unreal Engine and associated visual scripting tools, such as Kismet or Blueprint (Blueprints preferred)
- Demonstrable organized approach to problem-solving and time-management to meet strict production deadlines
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and effectively communicating with internal dev teams (with a focus on technical collaboration with engineering
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks and projects
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Art Director, Social/Brand Content
- Employees can work remotely
- Full-time
Company Description
Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.
To solve this problem, we expanded into software and built integrated solutions to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.
Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.
Job Description
Square is looking for an integrated Senior Art Director who specializes in Social & Content to join our Global Brand Studio. As a Senior Art Director on the Brand Content team, you’ll concept, design, and art direct stories that are expressed through video, photo, interactive, and illustration. You may work on interactive visual storytelling, interactive tools, trend reports, social content series, branded films, organic social posts, testimonials, case studies, editorial content, sales kits, and developing creative platforms that come to life through “always on” content across many different owned channels. You’ll build relationships with some of our boldest editorial and social marketing partners, and help shape the perception of Square as a world-class, iconic brand.
You’re an expert in storytelling. As part of your professional experience, you will have worked on creative integrated advertising campaigns. You have work that has drummed up social sharing and PR attention. You have an understanding and love for social media and channel expertise across Tiktok, YouTube, and Instagram. You are comfortable on the production side of the house, with experience briefing photographers/directors, art directing on set, and working with editors to develop final cuts. You have played around with motion design, maybe have even cut together something yourself. You have experience working on beautiful experiences for the web.
Our team goes deep on different subject-matters related to entrepreneurship, community, financial independence, cultural impact of business. You will report to the Creative Director, Brand Content.
This position is remote from the United States or Canada.
You Will:
- Concept, design, and art direct content that are editorial/social-first, culturally relevant, and have a big idea
- Lead projects as the go-to art director, or only art director, on a diverse team of creative colleagues
- Develop visual identities and graphics for content series across content platforms
- Develop art direction for our new digital publication
- Create guidelines and templates for social series
- Create outstanding photography, videography direction, typography, branding application direction, and design direction
- Maintain a positive and supportive team mentality in an open environment while working to lead projects through concept to execution
Qualifications
Career/Education Experience
- 8+ years of industry experience; agency, design studio, production house, or relevant in-house marketing experience
You Have
- Ability to develop social-first campaigns with world class visual craft
- Cultural literacy – an understanding of industry trends and today’s creative landscape—how users engage with content, and trends within the marketing
- An editorial/journalistic mind.
- Experience managing or providing mentorship to junior creatives
- Expertise in typography, composition, color, layout, design thinking, and content strategy
- Experience working in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite with expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Experience with Premiere and After Effects.
- Experience on photo and film shoots
- Experience briefing photographers and directors
- Motion design experience is a nice to have
Please submit a deck or portfolio of work with your application that showcases your design process from exploratory stages through execution. If your portfolio site requires a password, please provide us with it in your application or on your resume. Thank you!
Additional Information
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Zone A: USD $167,300 – USD $204,500
Zone B: USD $155,600 – USD $190,200
Zone C: USD $147,200 – USD $180,000
Zone D: USD $138,900 – USD $169,700
Benefits include the following:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans including company match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
- Paid parental and caregiving leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources
- Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits
- Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Support Engineer (AMER)
at GitLab
Remote
The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
This Support Engineer position is 100% remote.
Support Engineer
The Support Engineer is a grade 6.
What you can expect in a Support Engineer role at GitLab:
As a Support Engineer, you will:
- resolve customer issues via email and video conferencing.
- support a mix of Self-managed and GitLab.com (SaaS) customers.
- collaborate with our Product and Development Teams to build new features and fix bugs.
- create and update documentation based on customer interactions.
- work hard to solve customer problems while delighting them along the way.
- participate in regular rotations for weekday and weekend on-call coverage (daytime only), providing emergency support to our Self-managed and SaaS customers, or working with our SaaS Production team to coordinate incident communications.
- work alongside Product Managers to define and shape the product goals, roadmap, priorities, and strategy based on your frontline knowledge of customer needs.
- continually research and learn the current and future best practices of using GitLab.
- participate in our hiring processes by reviewing applications and assessments, and by participating in interviews.
- suggest and implement improvements to Support workflows.
Requirements
Avoid the confidence gap; you do not have to match all the listed requirements exactly to apply. You should apply if:
You’ve got the personality
- you’re a natural communicator and delight in using those skills to help others.
- you love exploring new technologies and figuring things out the hard way.
- you enjoy solving many small problems per day.
You’re a support professional
- you’ve got 2+ years of experience in a support or other service-oriented customer facing role.
- within the last 5 years, you’ve worked at one company for at least 2 years.
- you’re experienced in writing support content.
- you’re experienced in managing cases throughout the entire support lifecycle from initial customer inquiry to triage and reproduction, writing bug reports for hand off to the development team, and case resolution.
- you have experience being on-call and can jump into a complex situation and make sense of and communicate clearly to stakeholders what’s going on.
- you’re comfortable using support platforms such as ZenDesk and Salesforce.
You’ve got the technical acumen
- you understand DevOps methodologies and you appreciate the value technologies like Serverless and Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process.
- you’re able to communicate complex technical topics to customers and coworkers of varying technical skill level.
- you have excellent Ruby on Rails knowledge and are fluent on the Rails console, or you’re proficient in working with another MVC framework (Django, Laravel or others) and will be able to pick up Rails quickly.
- you’re experienced with Git and CI/CD.
- you have excellent Linux systems administration knowledge (LFCE or RHCE equivalent knowledge).
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Backend Engineer, ModelOps Infrastructure
at GitLab
Remote
The GitLab DevSecOps platform empowers 100,000+ organizations to deliver software faster and more efficiently. We are one of the world’s largest all-remote companies with 2,000+ team members and values that foster a culture where people embrace the belief that everyone can contribute. Learn more about Life at GitLab.
About the work
GitLab ModelOps aims to bring data science into GitLab both within existing and new features to make them smarter, more intelligent, and to empower GitLab customers to build and integrate data science workloads within GitLab. This stage also supports our FY24 Product Theme: GitLab for Data Science, and the GitLab company vision of developing an AllOps platform.
Your role will be to build and optimise our infrastructure and scale our LLM’s (large language models) while integrating them as microservices within Gitlab, and dropping the costs of Machine Learning. You will balance short and long-term efforts from an infrastructure perspective and work on scalability challenges. You will be the backbone of our ML efforts that solve the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Some examples:
- In GitLab version15.4 we released our Suggested Reviewers Open Beta
- In Gitlab version 15.3 we released Code Suggestion Closed Beta: a short blog
What you will do
- Play a key role in the design, implementation, and integration of product features;
- Solve technical infrastructure problems of high scope and complexity;
- Test, deploy, maintain, and improve ML infrastructure and software that uses these models;
- Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment;
- Collaborate with other ML engineers and advise on the MLOps architecture from an infrastructure perspective;
- Respond to feature availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.
What you will bring
- Significant professional experience in Python backend infrastructure and Pytorch.
- Experience in working on scalability and maintainability challenges
- Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and preferably GCP or equivalent technologies.
- Experience with tritton backend and post-production monitoring of large language models ( >10GB)
- High interest in defining infrastructure for large-scale ML recommendation engines
- A genuine passion for learning as you will be solving the challenges of today, tomorrow, and many years to come.
About the team
Today, data scientists piece together data, tooling, and frameworks to get bespoke data science workloads running and producing business value. Data scientists then hand off models to engineering teams to attempt to deploy them to production. These teams speak different languages, use different tools, and have completely different workflows. This makes it very difficult to deploy data science workloads to production, increasing time to value and costs. One of our primary goals for our ModelOps stage is to reduce the complexities of data science workloads and integrate these workloads to easily be managed and developed within GitLab.
How GitLab will support you
- All remote, asynchronous work environment
- Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
- GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
- Benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
- Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
- A personal growth and development budget per year
- Parental leave: 16 weeks
- Home office support
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by twochickswithasidehustle | Apr 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $31.00 – 34.30 per hour
Our client in the technology equipment industry is seeking a Part-Time Project Coordinator/Traffic Manager to join their team!
In this role you will work with a cross-functional team to implement and manage processes, build out and prioritize requests within their project management software, manage workflow to ensure the timely execution of creative projects, and maintain the production calendar for project visibility. The ideal candidate has strong experience in a creative environment, either as part an agency or in an in-house design environment.
Responsibilities:
Maintain detailed schedules.
Monitor projects to set and adjust deadlines for various stages.
Distribute assignments to creative teams and other departments.
Meet with internal teams to learn more about new project details and give status updates on existing projects.
Qualifications:
Communication, organizational, and project management skills.
3+ years’ experience as a project or traffic manager, either within an agency or as part of an in-house creative department.
Keen eye for details.
Deep and abiding love of process.
Previous experience working with Asana preferred.
Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
Bi-lingual is a plus (specifically Spanish, French, German or Italian).
Skills:
Project Controls
Project Coordinator
Junior Project Manager
Scheduling
Planning
Project Management Tools
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by twochickswithasidehustle | Apr 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $28 – 35 per hour
Our client is looking to add a Quality Assurance Specialist to their bench for ad hoc projects. This person will be responsible for proofing links for new website creations, as well as testing links and proofing content on website to ensure everything is brand specific. This will be a fully remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
Plan test schedules and strategies in accordance with project scope and delivery dates.
Ensure that deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.
Ability to make minor updates to projects as needed.
Write clear, concise and complete feedback.
Assist in developing and maintaining QA documentation.
Coordinate with team members with the goal of reducing errors/issues.
Qualifications:
Experience level: Experienced
Minimum 3 years of experience
Education: Bachelors
3+ years of professional QA experience.
Familiarity with Jira.
Demonstrated knowledge of web usability and best practices.
Basic knowledge of web development, HTML5 and CSS3.
High attention to detail.
Excellent time management skills.
Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Able to effectively perform multiple/concurrent tasks within deadlines in a dynamic environment.
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