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posted_at: 2 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
We are looking for a senior producer to join our Old School Development team
This is an exciting role where you will support the development of a major new feature for Old School RuneScape. You will work closely with the games discipline leads and other key project stakeholders to successfully execute this major new feature. You will be responsible for the delivery of compelling features, aligned... to a product roadmap and guiding any external development
We are looking for a senior producer to join our Old School Development team
This is an exciting role where you will support the development of a major new feature for Old School RuneScape. You will work closely with the games discipline leads and other key project stakeholders to successfully execute this major new feature. You will be responsible for the delivery of compelling features, aligned... to a product roadmap and guiding any external development efforts.
You will support and improve planning, development, and release processes on a continuous basis to meet product vision and quality goals.
We're looking for someone detail focused and and who is an expert at balancing team resources, development requirements and product goals to deliver excellent game features and content. As part of the development of Old School RuneScape it will be vitally important that the right priorities are set to create clarity and focus for the team, supporting their key objectives. Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the Executive Producer, Product and Marketing to understand, champion, and translate the product vision to the dev team and all cross-functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to the living franchise business review efforts and that they are up to date with content from subject matter experts and key stakeholders - including progress for all initiatives, roadmaps, cross-functional production plans, KPIs, and burndowns.
• At a Dev Team level, support long term capacity and resource planning.
• You will have a strong understand of online, live service games and the associated technology
• Contribute and support scaling of development via outsourcing, develop plans and requirements, and review statements of work.
• Anticipate and address potential problems like resource blockers, quality concerns, and scope changes. Communicate effectively to ensure these problems are resolved quickly.
• Mitigate all technology risks, medium level org risks, and medium level financial risks that can help the team deliver the best possible game.
• Monitor and measure effectiveness of dev initiatives within the team, ensure we can measure the ROI, and optimise dev pipelines.
• Assist the production group to organise and improve project management processes, identify problems, and clear blockers to enable the predictable delivery of releases to a high quality.
• Develop rich relationships and partnerships with the Dev Team, cross-functional, and company-wide departments.
• As an experienced producer you will also be expected and able to help shape and run larger multi-team, long term initiatives
• From Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, Lean) to Waterfall, you'll assess and choose the best and most pragmatic process for the situation to plan and manage development and future roadmaps.
• Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews.
• Support, inspire and motivate teams working on the game.
• Monitor, measure and mitigate medium level budgets/financial risks and all plans developed by the team.
• Champion standards developed by the Production Team for the team and support overall team health. Drive team cultural changes.
• Hyper-aware of the game industry's online products, services, and innovations.
• Actively participates and contributes to change across the studio
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK's biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction. Company Benefits:
• Flexible Working
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Health Care
• Gym Membership
• Monthly Energy Allowance
• Generous Pension Contributions
• Life Insurance
• Free Cycle Repair
• Income Protection
• Dental Plan
• Free Fruit and Drinks
• Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don't meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief Show more details...
This is an exciting role where you will support the development of a major new feature for Old School RuneScape. You will work closely with the games discipline leads and other key project stakeholders to successfully execute this major new feature. You will be responsible for the delivery of compelling features, aligned... to a product roadmap and guiding any external development efforts.
You will support and improve planning, development, and release processes on a continuous basis to meet product vision and quality goals.
We're looking for someone detail focused and and who is an expert at balancing team resources, development requirements and product goals to deliver excellent game features and content. As part of the development of Old School RuneScape it will be vitally important that the right priorities are set to create clarity and focus for the team, supporting their key objectives. Responsibilities:
• Work closely with the Executive Producer, Product and Marketing to understand, champion, and translate the product vision to the dev team and all cross-functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to the living franchise business review efforts and that they are up to date with content from subject matter experts and key stakeholders - including progress for all initiatives, roadmaps, cross-functional production plans, KPIs, and burndowns.
• At a Dev Team level, support long term capacity and resource planning.
• You will have a strong understand of online, live service games and the associated technology
• Contribute and support scaling of development via outsourcing, develop plans and requirements, and review statements of work.
• Anticipate and address potential problems like resource blockers, quality concerns, and scope changes. Communicate effectively to ensure these problems are resolved quickly.
• Mitigate all technology risks, medium level org risks, and medium level financial risks that can help the team deliver the best possible game.
• Monitor and measure effectiveness of dev initiatives within the team, ensure we can measure the ROI, and optimise dev pipelines.
• Assist the production group to organise and improve project management processes, identify problems, and clear blockers to enable the predictable delivery of releases to a high quality.
• Develop rich relationships and partnerships with the Dev Team, cross-functional, and company-wide departments.
• As an experienced producer you will also be expected and able to help shape and run larger multi-team, long term initiatives
• From Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, Lean) to Waterfall, you'll assess and choose the best and most pragmatic process for the situation to plan and manage development and future roadmaps.
• Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews.
• Support, inspire and motivate teams working on the game.
• Monitor, measure and mitigate medium level budgets/financial risks and all plans developed by the team.
• Champion standards developed by the Production Team for the team and support overall team health. Drive team cultural changes.
• Hyper-aware of the game industry's online products, services, and innovations.
• Actively participates and contributes to change across the studio
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK's biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction. Company Benefits:
• Flexible Working
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Health Care
• Gym Membership
• Monthly Energy Allowance
• Generous Pension Contributions
• Life Insurance
• Free Cycle Repair
• Income Protection
• Dental Plan
• Free Fruit and Drinks
• Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don't meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief Show more details...
via Jagex - Talentify
posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Senior Engineer Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Jagex is currently hiring for a Senior Engineer to work on developing and maintaining our tools/infrastructure that improve Player Support and Experience functionality.
We are looking for an Engineer who is comfortable with using Java or a similar language, knows how to perform queries on SQL and... ideally has experience with AWS. Any experience
Senior Engineer Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Jagex is currently hiring for a Senior Engineer to work on developing and maintaining our tools/infrastructure that improve Player Support and Experience functionality.
We are looking for an Engineer who is comfortable with using Java or a similar language, knows how to perform queries on SQL and... ideally has experience with AWS. Any experience of handling legacy systems would also be an advantage but not essential. We are particularly interested in Engineers who have experience with mentoring and can take the lead on projects. Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Builds software and services allowing for continuous integration and delivery as well as browser-agnostic user interfaces.
• Maintains and supports live systems, tools, and infrastructure within the Game Ops domain through regular deployment of updates and fixes.
• Proven track record of writing clean and maintainable code, following best practices to produce solutions that demonstrate significant improvements in quality, performance, stability and scalability.
• Offer effective technical advice and support to further the continual improvement of internal and external workflows while maintaining excellent velocity.
• Drives technical discussion and design, owning medium to large features from technical design to completion.
• Proactively champions the benefits of rapid prototyping to achieve business and collective goals and engage team members and other stakeholders.
• Works on higher complexity tasks within the sprint backlog, delegating to load balance their work where necessary, while using it as an opportunity to skill up others.
• Working with product leadership to ensure the right decisions are made on project delivery, managing risk, minimising re-work and defects.
• Recognised as an expert in one or more areas by their peers, collective, and company leadership for contributions towards the most pressing and highest priority business challenges.
• Leads large, strategic, complex engineering projects – often across collective boundaries.
• Proactively proposes engineering strategy for within their Collective/Discipline and knows how to effectively get buy in and move this forward.
• Works with or develops enterprise level solutions.
• Encourages agile theory, principles and values within their collective.
• Demonstrates best practices and are a role model to others for thorough testing, review and documentation.
• Regularly challenges others to have a greater sense of urgency for company priorities.
• Steps up to lead and influence others when required, even if not explicitly asked of them.
• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, and proactively sponsors, mentors, and helps to level-up more senior engineers.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
We are looking for an Engineer who is comfortable with using Java or a similar language, knows how to perform queries on SQL and... ideally has experience with AWS. Any experience of handling legacy systems would also be an advantage but not essential. We are particularly interested in Engineers who have experience with mentoring and can take the lead on projects. Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Builds software and services allowing for continuous integration and delivery as well as browser-agnostic user interfaces.
• Maintains and supports live systems, tools, and infrastructure within the Game Ops domain through regular deployment of updates and fixes.
• Proven track record of writing clean and maintainable code, following best practices to produce solutions that demonstrate significant improvements in quality, performance, stability and scalability.
• Offer effective technical advice and support to further the continual improvement of internal and external workflows while maintaining excellent velocity.
• Drives technical discussion and design, owning medium to large features from technical design to completion.
• Proactively champions the benefits of rapid prototyping to achieve business and collective goals and engage team members and other stakeholders.
• Works on higher complexity tasks within the sprint backlog, delegating to load balance their work where necessary, while using it as an opportunity to skill up others.
• Working with product leadership to ensure the right decisions are made on project delivery, managing risk, minimising re-work and defects.
• Recognised as an expert in one or more areas by their peers, collective, and company leadership for contributions towards the most pressing and highest priority business challenges.
• Leads large, strategic, complex engineering projects – often across collective boundaries.
• Proactively proposes engineering strategy for within their Collective/Discipline and knows how to effectively get buy in and move this forward.
• Works with or develops enterprise level solutions.
• Encourages agile theory, principles and values within their collective.
• Demonstrates best practices and are a role model to others for thorough testing, review and documentation.
• Regularly challenges others to have a greater sense of urgency for company priorities.
• Steps up to lead and influence others when required, even if not explicitly asked of them.
• Receives little instruction on day-to-day work, and proactively sponsors, mentors, and helps to level-up more senior engineers.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
via Jagex - Talentify
schedule_type: Full-time
Content Developer - Old School RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Design / Full Time / Hybrid Apply for this job Job Overview: As a member of the Old School content development team, you will design, create and implement new gameplay features or content of various types such as new world map areas, quests, PvP content, minigames, skills or gameplay improvements. You must consider and... balance narrative, gameplay, end user experience and
Content Developer - Old School RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Design / Full Time / Hybrid Apply for this job Job Overview: As a member of the Old School content development team, you will design, create and implement new gameplay features or content of various types such as new world map areas, quests, PvP content, minigames, skills or gameplay improvements. You must consider and... balance narrative, gameplay, end user experience and technical implementation to deliver beautifully crafted and engaging experiences for our amazing community of players. Game Design
• You will be responsible for designing new, engaging game content suitable for Old School RuneScape. You will often take the lead on design for mid-sized full projects, delivering a design that fits the project and unites the team behind it.
Game Development
• You will be creating your game content using the in-house language, RuneScript. You are capable of handling code for most projects, requiring assistance for only projects of technical complexity. You are expected to create safe, efficient, reusable and maintainable script for your projects, utilising the knowledge of the wider development team to assist and your wide knowledge of the Old School codebase.
Project Management
• Whilst you will always have the assistance of a producer and more senior developers, you will play a role in scoping your work and clearly detailing requirements for dependencies on other disciplines, including graphics, QA and audio.
Game Knowledge
• Old School has a huge amount of content and incredibly deep systems. You will be expected to continuously learn more about the game, and utilise the knowledge of the wider team to help inform your design and development decisions.
Community Interaction
• You will spend time engaging with the community via social media and livestreams in order to gain important insights and feedback on your own content, answer their questions where possible and build your own relationship with them. You will have the assistance of our Community Management team for this. This is important to Old School RuneScape’s player-driven focus.
Responsibilities
• Collaboration is extremely important among Jagex standards and you will be expected to work effectively both within a team and the wider company.
• Games development is a fast-paced industry and we’re constantly improving our tools, engine and workflow. Your ability to adapt to an evolving environment will be crucial to your success in this role.
• You’re a professional with a positive outlook and strong work ethic who’s determined to get the job done.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
• You will be responsible for designing new, engaging game content suitable for Old School RuneScape. You will often take the lead on design for mid-sized full projects, delivering a design that fits the project and unites the team behind it.
Game Development
• You will be creating your game content using the in-house language, RuneScript. You are capable of handling code for most projects, requiring assistance for only projects of technical complexity. You are expected to create safe, efficient, reusable and maintainable script for your projects, utilising the knowledge of the wider development team to assist and your wide knowledge of the Old School codebase.
Project Management
• Whilst you will always have the assistance of a producer and more senior developers, you will play a role in scoping your work and clearly detailing requirements for dependencies on other disciplines, including graphics, QA and audio.
Game Knowledge
• Old School has a huge amount of content and incredibly deep systems. You will be expected to continuously learn more about the game, and utilise the knowledge of the wider team to help inform your design and development decisions.
Community Interaction
• You will spend time engaging with the community via social media and livestreams in order to gain important insights and feedback on your own content, answer their questions where possible and build your own relationship with them. You will have the assistance of our Community Management team for this. This is important to Old School RuneScape’s player-driven focus.
Responsibilities
• Collaboration is extremely important among Jagex standards and you will be expected to work effectively both within a team and the wider company.
• Games development is a fast-paced industry and we’re constantly improving our tools, engine and workflow. Your ability to adapt to an evolving environment will be crucial to your success in this role.
• You’re a professional with a positive outlook and strong work ethic who’s determined to get the job done.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
via Jagex - Talentify
schedule_type: Full-time
Senior Gameplay Engineer - RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Job Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to join the RuneScape team, working on the operation and on-going enhancement of the RuneScape & Old School RuneScape game engine and associated systems. The successful candidate will be working with our java code... libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies.
Senior Gameplay Engineer - RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Job Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to join the RuneScape team, working on the operation and on-going enhancement of the RuneScape & Old School RuneScape game engine and associated systems. The successful candidate will be working with our java code... libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies. You will need to develop a deep understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. You will be influential within the organisation and be directly rewarded for the successes of the products. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a world-renowned online games company, to work on a unique and large-scale project and face some of the most complex and interesting challenges in online gaming. Main Duties Include:
• Programming using Java (and other languages where appropriate), defining tasks as well as working to service assigned and scheduled requests
• Working closely with the content development teams working in RuneScape’s bespoke scripting language, RuneScript; Building strong working relationships with team members both in the engine and content development groups.
• Defining and developing client-server architecture, taking ownership of significant feature areas within the game engine.
• Identifying areas where content and engine technology can be enhanced by making changes on both sides.
• Researching, innovating, and developing new gameplay features; representing the RuneScape player in technology choices
• Being constantly proactive in finding ways to make our game technology faster, leaner, and more effective
• Contributing to overall project strategy. Be willing to put forward ideas, and to positively critique those put forward by others
• Help other engineers understand the ways the game technology is being used and misused, and how to approach
• Mentoring more junior engineers within the group.
Essential Skills:
• Provable expertise in non-framework Java (2+ years professional development experience)
• At least 2yrs games industry experience [RC1]
• Server / Backend experience solving complex problems
• A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
• Good core understanding of computer science and programming methodologies
• Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable Skills:
• Experience working on an MMO or large-scale client/server application
• Experience working with a pre-existing, large-scale, codebase
• Experience working on a game heavily driven by script.
• Experience working with any of Python, Bash, RunDeck, git, Atlassian products
• Experience with build and deployment systems such as Gradle, Maven or Ansible
• Past experience working with RuneScape content RuneScript[RC1]
• A passion for gaming and RuneScape
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
We are looking for a Senior Gameplay Engineer to join the RuneScape team, working on the operation and on-going enhancement of the RuneScape & Old School RuneScape game engine and associated systems. The successful candidate will be working with our java code... libraries, scripting languages and game engine technologies. You will need to develop a deep understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. You will be influential within the organisation and be directly rewarded for the successes of the products. This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with ambition and initiative to join a world-renowned online games company, to work on a unique and large-scale project and face some of the most complex and interesting challenges in online gaming. Main Duties Include:
• Programming using Java (and other languages where appropriate), defining tasks as well as working to service assigned and scheduled requests
• Working closely with the content development teams working in RuneScape’s bespoke scripting language, RuneScript; Building strong working relationships with team members both in the engine and content development groups.
• Defining and developing client-server architecture, taking ownership of significant feature areas within the game engine.
• Identifying areas where content and engine technology can be enhanced by making changes on both sides.
• Researching, innovating, and developing new gameplay features; representing the RuneScape player in technology choices
• Being constantly proactive in finding ways to make our game technology faster, leaner, and more effective
• Contributing to overall project strategy. Be willing to put forward ideas, and to positively critique those put forward by others
• Help other engineers understand the ways the game technology is being used and misused, and how to approach
• Mentoring more junior engineers within the group.
Essential Skills:
• Provable expertise in non-framework Java (2+ years professional development experience)
• At least 2yrs games industry experience [RC1]
• Server / Backend experience solving complex problems
• A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack
• Good core understanding of computer science and programming methodologies
• Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable Skills:
• Experience working on an MMO or large-scale client/server application
• Experience working with a pre-existing, large-scale, codebase
• Experience working on a game heavily driven by script.
• Experience working with any of Python, Bash, RunDeck, git, Atlassian products
• Experience with build and deployment systems such as Gradle, Maven or Ansible
• Past experience working with RuneScape content RuneScript[RC1]
• A passion for gaming and RuneScape
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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posted_at: 3 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Producer - Unannounced Game Cambridge / Games Development – Production / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Jagex is searching for a Producer to work on our new unannounced game that's being developed in Unreal 5. As a Producer, you will be responsible for overseeing the smooth running and development of several initiatives towards the project roadmap and release targets. You will be quality... focused and lead by example, demonstrating the ability
Producer - Unannounced Game Cambridge / Games Development – Production / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Jagex is searching for a Producer to work on our new unannounced game that's being developed in Unreal 5. As a Producer, you will be responsible for overseeing the smooth running and development of several initiatives towards the project roadmap and release targets. You will be quality... focused and lead by example, demonstrating the ability to support and improve planning, development and release processes on a continuous basis to meet product vision and quality goals.
Partnering closely with project Directors, Leads, QA and the wider Production team, you will leverage your in-depth knowledge of the Production discipline to ensure the teams you support have a productive day-to-day workflow. You will initiate credible and easily understandable long-term plans, and set yourself up for success to deliver against them. You will be experienced in full lifecycle development, detail focused and expert at balancing team resources, development requirements and product goals to deliver game features and content ensuring that the right priorities are set to create clarity and focus for the team to support key objectives. Liaising with internal stakeholders, you’ll ensure key initiatives and dependencies are tracked and risks identified, developing successful mitigating strategies to overcome challenges to delivery and execution.
Someone successful in this role is a player, product, and quality-focused, leading by example, develop trust and respect amongst the team. You will be a motivator and build cross-team communication and relationships. You will guide and support the team to form a collaborative approach that establishes the highest standards and sets the tone for project culture and values. Responsibilities
• Own key areas of delivery for the game through all phases of production
• Partner closely with the Senior Producer, Development Director and the entire Production team to deliver on short and long-term development and roadmap objectives.
• Work with the Leads & Directors to understand the expectations for the quality and functionality of design, technical and content features. Assist in driving the clear communication of these requirements, expected outcomes, and priorities
• Be the first line of contact for day-to-day development within your areas of responsibility. Work closely with the game team to continually adapt and improve production processes to best support the individual needs of your teams.
• Monitor progress within your teams, providing regular reporting on accomplishments, development status, issues and risks for your assigned areas.
• Proactively identify and solve problems to ensure the smooth running of the teams, escalating as needed. Define mitigation plans that deliver great outcomes for the team and product.
• Drive necessary conversations between teams to tackle blockers, dependencies & shared areas of responsibility, ensuring the outcomes are clear and well-understood by all.
• Track, promote, follow up on and relay information on key decisions, actions & shared discussions.
• Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews with the development teams. Communicate concerns clearly to Directors, Leads & Senior Production. Assist in the creation & roll-out of related action plans.
Requirements
• Shipped one or more games at a Producer or higher level.
• Understanding of game development processes and product direction.
• Strong analytical mind with excellent people and communication skills.
• A great communicator that understands what is working, what is of concern and what needs to be improved.
• Experience managing large projects with Agile or hybrid project management principles and practices.
• Experience with JIRA, Shotgun or similar project-tracking software is essential.
• Avid gamer is a plus, with a passion for creating innovative and compelling new games.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
Partnering closely with project Directors, Leads, QA and the wider Production team, you will leverage your in-depth knowledge of the Production discipline to ensure the teams you support have a productive day-to-day workflow. You will initiate credible and easily understandable long-term plans, and set yourself up for success to deliver against them. You will be experienced in full lifecycle development, detail focused and expert at balancing team resources, development requirements and product goals to deliver game features and content ensuring that the right priorities are set to create clarity and focus for the team to support key objectives. Liaising with internal stakeholders, you’ll ensure key initiatives and dependencies are tracked and risks identified, developing successful mitigating strategies to overcome challenges to delivery and execution.
Someone successful in this role is a player, product, and quality-focused, leading by example, develop trust and respect amongst the team. You will be a motivator and build cross-team communication and relationships. You will guide and support the team to form a collaborative approach that establishes the highest standards and sets the tone for project culture and values. Responsibilities
• Own key areas of delivery for the game through all phases of production
• Partner closely with the Senior Producer, Development Director and the entire Production team to deliver on short and long-term development and roadmap objectives.
• Work with the Leads & Directors to understand the expectations for the quality and functionality of design, technical and content features. Assist in driving the clear communication of these requirements, expected outcomes, and priorities
• Be the first line of contact for day-to-day development within your areas of responsibility. Work closely with the game team to continually adapt and improve production processes to best support the individual needs of your teams.
• Monitor progress within your teams, providing regular reporting on accomplishments, development status, issues and risks for your assigned areas.
• Proactively identify and solve problems to ensure the smooth running of the teams, escalating as needed. Define mitigation plans that deliver great outcomes for the team and product.
• Drive necessary conversations between teams to tackle blockers, dependencies & shared areas of responsibility, ensuring the outcomes are clear and well-understood by all.
• Track, promote, follow up on and relay information on key decisions, actions & shared discussions.
• Conduct regular, effective retrospectives and post-mortem reviews with the development teams. Communicate concerns clearly to Directors, Leads & Senior Production. Assist in the creation & roll-out of related action plans.
Requirements
• Shipped one or more games at a Producer or higher level.
• Understanding of game development processes and product direction.
• Strong analytical mind with excellent people and communication skills.
• A great communicator that understands what is working, what is of concern and what needs to be improved.
• Experience managing large projects with Agile or hybrid project management principles and practices.
• Experience with JIRA, Shotgun or similar project-tracking software is essential.
• Avid gamer is a plus, with a passion for creating innovative and compelling new games.
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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schedule_type: Full-time
THE JOB AND THE TEAM!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an animator looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input, teamwork, and personal development. The successful applicant will join an experienced team of artists, working on our flagship PC and mobile title, RuneScape. Working within our talented art team, you will:
• Create, develop, and refine high quality 3D... animations across creatures, human characters, and
THE JOB AND THE TEAM!
This is a fantastic opportunity for an animator looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input, teamwork, and personal development. The successful applicant will join an experienced team of artists, working on our flagship PC and mobile title, RuneScape. Working within our talented art team, you will:
• Create, develop, and refine high quality 3D... animations across creatures, human characters, and locations in Maya
• Ensure the animation quality and style is maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work, via feedback
• Provide feedto all animators in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day-to-day production
• Work with more senior animators and the lead to develop your own creative and technical skill set
• Work with more junior animators to develop their creative and technical skill set
• Work closely with Content Developers to ensure animations are correctly implemented in the game engine
• Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools
• Work with Technical Artists to troubleshoot and improve existing workflows
What we're looking for on your reel:
• We are primarily looking for animators who can create exciting, characterful human and creature keyframe animation with a developed sense of spacing and timing, exaggeration, and stylisation.
• Specifically, we want to see that you can create high quality character animation, across locomotion, traversal, and combat.
• After that, cinematics and facial performances are a bonus with motion capture also of interest to us. Also, we really value life drawing to further demonstrate an understanding of key poses and anatomy. So, if you have life drawing examples, please include them!
What we need:
• Excellent key frame animation skills across creatures, set pieces and human characters
• A great eye for dynamic spacing/timing, squash and stretch and smearing
• Experience in Maya animation production, particularly for games
• An excellent demo reel that adequately reflects this experience, showing examples across a broad range of creatures and characters
• A keen interest in games, game animation and animation in general
• The ability to give and take critique, helping yourself and the team to develop
• To take direction and work with the Lead Animator and Art director to maintain game style and quality personally, and across the team
• To be proactive and take responsibility for keeping assets optimised, organised, and functioning in-game as required
• To maintain a good level of communication with all relevant team members throughout animation production and implementation
Even better if:
• Good knowledge of animation implementation (blend trees, state machines etc) in UE, Unity or equivalent
• Experience rigging and weighting characters in Maya
• Degree in Animation
• Traditional animation skills
• Traditional 2D art skills
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github, or online album Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction. Company Benefits:
• Flexible Working
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Health Care
• Gym Membership
• Monthly Energy Allowance
• Generous Pension Contributions
• Life Insurance
• Free Cycle Repair
• Income Protection
• Dental Plan
• Free Fruit and Drinks
• Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief Show more details...
This is a fantastic opportunity for an animator looking for a varied and challenging role that encourages creative input, teamwork, and personal development. The successful applicant will join an experienced team of artists, working on our flagship PC and mobile title, RuneScape. Working within our talented art team, you will:
• Create, develop, and refine high quality 3D... animations across creatures, human characters, and locations in Maya
• Ensure the animation quality and style is maintained through all projects within your own and colleagues work, via feedback
• Provide feedto all animators in the team in group reviews and more junior members of the team in day-to-day production
• Work with more senior animators and the lead to develop your own creative and technical skill set
• Work with more junior animators to develop their creative and technical skill set
• Work closely with Content Developers to ensure animations are correctly implemented in the game engine
• Work with Tools Developers to troubleshoot and improve existing in-house tools
• Work with Technical Artists to troubleshoot and improve existing workflows
What we're looking for on your reel:
• We are primarily looking for animators who can create exciting, characterful human and creature keyframe animation with a developed sense of spacing and timing, exaggeration, and stylisation.
• Specifically, we want to see that you can create high quality character animation, across locomotion, traversal, and combat.
• After that, cinematics and facial performances are a bonus with motion capture also of interest to us. Also, we really value life drawing to further demonstrate an understanding of key poses and anatomy. So, if you have life drawing examples, please include them!
What we need:
• Excellent key frame animation skills across creatures, set pieces and human characters
• A great eye for dynamic spacing/timing, squash and stretch and smearing
• Experience in Maya animation production, particularly for games
• An excellent demo reel that adequately reflects this experience, showing examples across a broad range of creatures and characters
• A keen interest in games, game animation and animation in general
• The ability to give and take critique, helping yourself and the team to develop
• To take direction and work with the Lead Animator and Art director to maintain game style and quality personally, and across the team
• To be proactive and take responsibility for keeping assets optimised, organised, and functioning in-game as required
• To maintain a good level of communication with all relevant team members throughout animation production and implementation
Even better if:
• Good knowledge of animation implementation (blend trees, state machines etc) in UE, Unity or equivalent
• Experience rigging and weighting characters in Maya
• Degree in Animation
• Traditional animation skills
• Traditional 2D art skills
We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github, or online album Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction. Company Benefits:
• Flexible Working
• Bonus Scheme
• Private Health Care
• Gym Membership
• Monthly Energy Allowance
• Generous Pension Contributions
• Life Insurance
• Free Cycle Repair
• Income Protection
• Dental Plan
• Free Fruit and Drinks
• Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief Show more details...
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schedule_type: Full-time
Lead Character Artist- Unannounced Game Cambridge / Games Development – Art / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Are you an experienced Character Artist with proven experience leading a small, but high performing team? Are you looking for a new challenge to working on a new project using the latest technologies? We are looking for a Lead Character Artist who can create, deliver, and guide... others to produce the highest standard character art
Lead Character Artist- Unannounced Game Cambridge / Games Development – Art / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Are you an experienced Character Artist with proven experience leading a small, but high performing team? Are you looking for a new challenge to working on a new project using the latest technologies? We are looking for a Lead Character Artist who can create, deliver, and guide... others to produce the highest standard character art on a new multi-platform, open world survival game that leverage’s our legendary RuneScape IP in new and creative ways. You will join an exceptional, high performing team with expertise working with the latest technologies, including Unreal Engine 5. You provide invaluable support to the Associate Art Director and have a deep understanding of modern modelling and texturing pipelines as well as processes within your discipline. As a Lead, you will bring your expert knowledge and be a skilled contributor with the ability and desire to manage others. You will work closely with the Directors to establish the projects art vision and document any style guides or pipelines in support of that goal. You will be both hands on, delivering character artwork as needed while also managing a small team.
Responsibilities include:
• Providing leadership, direction, and line management to the character team
• Delivery of highest quality in game character art
• Collaborating with Tech Art and Code teams to ensure pipelines and tools are effective, optimal and capable of delivery
• Reviewing assets to maintain consistent quality and provide feedback and critique
• Plan, schedule, and structure discipline tasks that feed into the art teams master schedule
• Documenting and communicating technical specifications and visual benchmarks to support the games artistic vision to both internal and external artists
• Producing production guides, breaking down in detail steps to reproduce assets within style
• Supporting, promoting, and building good team and studio morale in an open, creative environment
• Together with art leadership, contribute toward discipline hiring plans and recruitment process
• Manage outsource partners or freelancers as required
• Run individual, group review and critique sessions
What we're looking for:
• Expert working knowledge of Maya, Z-Brush and Substance
• Portfolio evidence of outstanding ‘hands on’ AAA Character art
• Mastery of anatomy
• An understanding of both realism and stylised styles and breakdowns
• Thorough knowledge of end-to-end in character workflow and related disciplines
• An understanding of technical art- enough to be able to communicate and resolve character related issues
• Working knowledge of Unreal engine
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
Responsibilities include:
• Providing leadership, direction, and line management to the character team
• Delivery of highest quality in game character art
• Collaborating with Tech Art and Code teams to ensure pipelines and tools are effective, optimal and capable of delivery
• Reviewing assets to maintain consistent quality and provide feedback and critique
• Plan, schedule, and structure discipline tasks that feed into the art teams master schedule
• Documenting and communicating technical specifications and visual benchmarks to support the games artistic vision to both internal and external artists
• Producing production guides, breaking down in detail steps to reproduce assets within style
• Supporting, promoting, and building good team and studio morale in an open, creative environment
• Together with art leadership, contribute toward discipline hiring plans and recruitment process
• Manage outsource partners or freelancers as required
• Run individual, group review and critique sessions
What we're looking for:
• Expert working knowledge of Maya, Z-Brush and Substance
• Portfolio evidence of outstanding ‘hands on’ AAA Character art
• Mastery of anatomy
• An understanding of both realism and stylised styles and breakdowns
• Thorough knowledge of end-to-end in character workflow and related disciplines
• An understanding of technical art- enough to be able to communicate and resolve character related issues
• Working knowledge of Unreal engine
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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posted_at: 10 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Lead Game Engineer (C++) Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Are you an experienced Games Engineer looking for an exciting challenge, to develop and mentor a team on one of our flagship IPs? We are looking for Lead Game Engineer to lead, develop and motivate a team of engineers while collaborating with other departments across the organisation.
As... Lead Game Engineer you will be responsible for operating
Lead Game Engineer (C++) Cambridge / Games Development – Engineering / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Are you an experienced Games Engineer looking for an exciting challenge, to develop and mentor a team on one of our flagship IPs? We are looking for Lead Game Engineer to lead, develop and motivate a team of engineers while collaborating with other departments across the organisation.
As... Lead Game Engineer you will be responsible for operating and developing game systems for Old School RuneScape. The Old School RuneScape engineering team covers a broad range of clients, tools and services, you’ll need a comprehensive understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. What you'll be doing...
• Line management for part of the Old School engineering team, support them in all aspects of their working life.
• Gather and analyse requirements from internal customers, working with the production and leadership teams to prioritise requirements and plan the development roadmap.
• Anticipate, identify and articulate problem areas and develop preventative solutions.
• Manage our relationship with external client engineers, advising them in planning milestones and ensuring that live issues are resolved expediently.
• Work with the leadership team to become the vision holder for the long-term progression of the Old School RuneScape technology and lead peers to share this vision.
• Adhere to and maintain high software development standards.
• Interview and recruit new staff as required, using interview skills and techniques to find and acquire the best candidates.
What we're looking for...
• Extremely proficient with C++.
• Games experience working on at least one launched title.
• Experience working as a senior engineer across a range of game engine systems.
• Strong understanding of architecture, system design, and best practices.
• Fluent in communicating and innovating solutions to complex problems.
• Knowledgeable and appreciative of old-school and modern development practices, with experience evaluating and recommending custom versus off-the-shelf solutions.
• Ability to work well in a team and with others; good communication skills are essential.
• Willingness to mentor and support other team members to achieve their best work.
Even better if...
• Experience with leading a team.
• Experience working on large-scale MMO games
• Interest in any of the following areas: graphics programming, automated testing, scripting frameworks, UI.
• Familiarity with CMake or similar build tools
• Knowledge of other languages such as Java, Python, Lua and Bash
• Experience developing games for multiple platforms, including PC, Mac OSX, Linux, iOS and Android
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
As... Lead Game Engineer you will be responsible for operating and developing game systems for Old School RuneScape. The Old School RuneScape engineering team covers a broad range of clients, tools and services, you’ll need a comprehensive understanding of existing technologies while continually driving to enhance and change them. What you'll be doing...
• Line management for part of the Old School engineering team, support them in all aspects of their working life.
• Gather and analyse requirements from internal customers, working with the production and leadership teams to prioritise requirements and plan the development roadmap.
• Anticipate, identify and articulate problem areas and develop preventative solutions.
• Manage our relationship with external client engineers, advising them in planning milestones and ensuring that live issues are resolved expediently.
• Work with the leadership team to become the vision holder for the long-term progression of the Old School RuneScape technology and lead peers to share this vision.
• Adhere to and maintain high software development standards.
• Interview and recruit new staff as required, using interview skills and techniques to find and acquire the best candidates.
What we're looking for...
• Extremely proficient with C++.
• Games experience working on at least one launched title.
• Experience working as a senior engineer across a range of game engine systems.
• Strong understanding of architecture, system design, and best practices.
• Fluent in communicating and innovating solutions to complex problems.
• Knowledgeable and appreciative of old-school and modern development practices, with experience evaluating and recommending custom versus off-the-shelf solutions.
• Ability to work well in a team and with others; good communication skills are essential.
• Willingness to mentor and support other team members to achieve their best work.
Even better if...
• Experience with leading a team.
• Experience working on large-scale MMO games
• Interest in any of the following areas: graphics programming, automated testing, scripting frameworks, UI.
• Familiarity with CMake or similar build tools
• Knowledge of other languages such as Java, Python, Lua and Bash
• Experience developing games for multiple platforms, including PC, Mac OSX, Linux, iOS and Android
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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Senior UI UX Artist - RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Art / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job THE JOB AND THE TEAM!
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior UI/UX Artist to join a growing team on our iconic game RuneScape! This role gives a rare opportunity for a Senior Artist to directly apply their craft and expertise to deliver and guide others to produce, a wide range of... intuitive, high quality and impactful user interfaces.
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Senior UI UX Artist - RuneScape Cambridge / Games Development – Art / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job THE JOB AND THE TEAM!
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior UI/UX Artist to join a growing team on our iconic game RuneScape! This role gives a rare opportunity for a Senior Artist to directly apply their craft and expertise to deliver and guide others to produce, a wide range of... intuitive, high quality and impactful user interfaces.
Working within our talented art team, you will: - Champion a healthy environment to unleash potential in others and facilitate career progression within your discipline. - Split time effectively between leadership and task contribution. - Collaborate directly with Art Directors, Leads and Designers, to set and maintain a cohesive visual style and quality within your discipline, and document any guides, creative briefs, or pipelines in support of that goal. - Inspire your team and others by being hands-on and performing the duties of your discipline when needed. - Provide strong craft leadership within their discipline and effectively time manage yourself and others in your team to deliver. - Set mechanisms to review, critique and guide quality ensuring alignment to the art direction and common standard of quality in your given area of ownership. - Liaise with production and external development to ensure your area of ownership has a solid and timely work stream including hiring/ growth. - Collaborate on and translate UX wireframe designs into high quality UI layout and artwork - Pre-visualize UI via mock-ups, prototypes, and animations. - Collaborate with Game Design to ensure a UX that is legible, fun and intuitive. - Present and back up your design thinking to peers and the team.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PORTFOLIO
We’re mainly looking for UI Artists that can demonstrate to an exceptional level a range of styles and subject matter applied to their work. Portfolio examples that clearly showcase your understanding of layout, spatial awareness, composition, use of colour, contrast, and visual design. We’re especially interested in seeing how you translate design requirements into final deliverables and your process along the way, plus examples of where you’ve helped guide others to do the same or level up their own artwork. WHAT WE NEED:
• Exceptional knowledge of the art fundamentals and meticulous attention to detail.
• Professional experience designing highest quality UI for games or apps.
• Solid understanding of game development processes.
• Mastery of industry standard tools such as Adobe Suite.
• Proven ability, as demonstrated in your portfolio, to create high quality 2D assets.
• Expertise with principles of design (alignment, balance, proportion, contrast, space, etc).
• Excellent understanding of layout, typography, logo and icon design.
• Understanding of cross-platform implementation and technical limitations.
• User Experience-focused design thinking.
• Awareness of current trends in UI and Graphic Design.
• Ability to translate and evaluate art direction into final asset.
• Experience of building and recruiting into an existing team.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or coaching others to success within craft.
• Solid experience at levelling up junior to senior artists through teaching and mentoring.
• Comfortable with running individual, group review and critique sessions.
• Willingness to transition between asset production and line management.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the capability to successfully work across multiple teams.
• A positive collaborative and professional working attitude.
• Strong English skills, both written and verbal.
EVEN BETTER IF:
• Traditional art skills.
• Experience of working with contractors, outsource art vendors, and co-devstudios.
• Ability to animate UI prototypes in After Effects or similar software.
• Exposure to working in a ‘live’ game team after launch.
• We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github,
• Artstation or other online albums
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior UI/UX Artist to join a growing team on our iconic game RuneScape! This role gives a rare opportunity for a Senior Artist to directly apply their craft and expertise to deliver and guide others to produce, a wide range of... intuitive, high quality and impactful user interfaces.
Working within our talented art team, you will: - Champion a healthy environment to unleash potential in others and facilitate career progression within your discipline. - Split time effectively between leadership and task contribution. - Collaborate directly with Art Directors, Leads and Designers, to set and maintain a cohesive visual style and quality within your discipline, and document any guides, creative briefs, or pipelines in support of that goal. - Inspire your team and others by being hands-on and performing the duties of your discipline when needed. - Provide strong craft leadership within their discipline and effectively time manage yourself and others in your team to deliver. - Set mechanisms to review, critique and guide quality ensuring alignment to the art direction and common standard of quality in your given area of ownership. - Liaise with production and external development to ensure your area of ownership has a solid and timely work stream including hiring/ growth. - Collaborate on and translate UX wireframe designs into high quality UI layout and artwork - Pre-visualize UI via mock-ups, prototypes, and animations. - Collaborate with Game Design to ensure a UX that is legible, fun and intuitive. - Present and back up your design thinking to peers and the team.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN YOUR PORTFOLIO
We’re mainly looking for UI Artists that can demonstrate to an exceptional level a range of styles and subject matter applied to their work. Portfolio examples that clearly showcase your understanding of layout, spatial awareness, composition, use of colour, contrast, and visual design. We’re especially interested in seeing how you translate design requirements into final deliverables and your process along the way, plus examples of where you’ve helped guide others to do the same or level up their own artwork. WHAT WE NEED:
• Exceptional knowledge of the art fundamentals and meticulous attention to detail.
• Professional experience designing highest quality UI for games or apps.
• Solid understanding of game development processes.
• Mastery of industry standard tools such as Adobe Suite.
• Proven ability, as demonstrated in your portfolio, to create high quality 2D assets.
• Expertise with principles of design (alignment, balance, proportion, contrast, space, etc).
• Excellent understanding of layout, typography, logo and icon design.
• Understanding of cross-platform implementation and technical limitations.
• User Experience-focused design thinking.
• Awareness of current trends in UI and Graphic Design.
• Ability to translate and evaluate art direction into final asset.
• Experience of building and recruiting into an existing team.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or coaching others to success within craft.
• Solid experience at levelling up junior to senior artists through teaching and mentoring.
• Comfortable with running individual, group review and critique sessions.
• Willingness to transition between asset production and line management.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with the capability to successfully work across multiple teams.
• A positive collaborative and professional working attitude.
• Strong English skills, both written and verbal.
EVEN BETTER IF:
• Traditional art skills.
• Experience of working with contractors, outsource art vendors, and co-devstudios.
• Ability to animate UI prototypes in After Effects or similar software.
• Exposure to working in a ‘live’ game team after launch.
• We can only consider applicants who include evidence of their work, along with breakdowns in an online format such as personal website, blog, Github,
• Artstation or other online albums
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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Game Analyst Cambridge / Marketing – Analytics & Data Science / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Team Overview ADSE’s goal is to develop, build and maintain a best-in-class analytical data platform. As a central data hub for the entire Studio (and third parties), ADSE provides both insights and data tools to further the understanding of our players and how they interact with the game. This... ranges from APIs for data governance, integration
Game Analyst Cambridge / Marketing – Analytics & Data Science / Full Time / Remote Apply for this job Team Overview ADSE’s goal is to develop, build and maintain a best-in-class analytical data platform. As a central data hub for the entire Studio (and third parties), ADSE provides both insights and data tools to further the understanding of our players and how they interact with the game. This... ranges from APIs for data governance, integration with CRM suites, dashboards for key stakeholders, reports on game releases and advanced economic modelling. Streamlining data collection from many and varied sources, cleansing and making available to different teams in whatever format is needed. Experimenting with new and innovative technologies to make all those more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective. Dreaming up new solutions and approaches, driving team knowledge forward and continually learning. The endpoint is to be the indispensable data engine for the company. The data, dashboards, models and reports produced and curated by ADSE are critical to the product teams, enabling them to understand our players’ needs and where the enjoyment and pain points lie. This allows for the balance of greenfield development tempered against hardened production systems. The team is built around three core sections: Data Engineering, Analytics and Data Science. You will be working in an exciting and vibrant environment, with input to everything from architectural designs, telemetry decisions, game usage and helping shape the future vision of the game. Job Description The Game Analyst will deliver insights learnings and guidance to game and business development staff and have a significant impact on the direction of our games and studio. The is one of the most critical roles we have as it acts as both a part of the game development team and as a center of growth for our Studio in unlocking insights about our players and our business. The person in this role is most successful when they can merge technical, game design & analytical skill to provide insights and actionable results. The Game Analyst will deliver insights learnings and guidance to game and business development staff and have a significant impact on the direction of our games and studio.
Responsibilities
• Drive deep, impactful learnings by working across data, game design and research to deliver a story driven direction based in data
• Responsible for designing and maintaining telemetry events for current and future content updates
• Create automated reports and dashboards to share insights across the studio
• Grow relationships across the studio to promote a data-driven partnership
• Present analysis conclusions to business stakeholders in a clear and practical way
• Partner with data engineering to manage data requirements such as schema requirements and data format to support high-quality deliverables
• Conduct effective analysis while adhering version control, documentation, and reproduction
• Play the game and know it from the inside out to deliver insight most effectively
Skills and Experience
• Proven commercial experience applying statistical analysis to consumer, user, or player behaviors
• Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as Data Science, Statistics, Computer
• Experience in SQL and a statistics language (e.g Python or R)
• Fluency in statistics and datasets
• Experience with Microsoft Excel
• Experience with dashboarding software (e.g. power BI Tableau)
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (AWS, Snowflake, OLAP)
• Superior attention to detail, natural curiosity, and ability to problem-solve creatively
• previous experience in the games industry
• previous experience leading analysts while also delivering high quality insights
• Familiarity with statistical IDEs like Jupyter Notebook or PyCharm
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
Responsibilities
• Drive deep, impactful learnings by working across data, game design and research to deliver a story driven direction based in data
• Responsible for designing and maintaining telemetry events for current and future content updates
• Create automated reports and dashboards to share insights across the studio
• Grow relationships across the studio to promote a data-driven partnership
• Present analysis conclusions to business stakeholders in a clear and practical way
• Partner with data engineering to manage data requirements such as schema requirements and data format to support high-quality deliverables
• Conduct effective analysis while adhering version control, documentation, and reproduction
• Play the game and know it from the inside out to deliver insight most effectively
Skills and Experience
• Proven commercial experience applying statistical analysis to consumer, user, or player behaviors
• Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as Data Science, Statistics, Computer
• Experience in SQL and a statistics language (e.g Python or R)
• Fluency in statistics and datasets
• Experience with Microsoft Excel
• Experience with dashboarding software (e.g. power BI Tableau)
• Familiarity with modern data architectures (AWS, Snowflake, OLAP)
• Superior attention to detail, natural curiosity, and ability to problem-solve creatively
• previous experience in the games industry
• previous experience leading analysts while also delivering high quality insights
• Familiarity with statistical IDEs like Jupyter Notebook or PyCharm
Company Overview:
A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working - Bonus Scheme - Private Health Care - Gym Membership - Monthly Energy Allowance - Generous Pension Contributions - Life Insurance - Free Cycle Repair - Income Protection - Dental Plan - Free Fruit and Drinks - Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application! Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief. Apply for this job Show more details...
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