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At ProbablyMonsters, we believe that everyone, game developers included, deserves the opportunity to work in an environment that respects people, culture, and creativity while providing predictable compensation and a stable career.

ProbablyMonsters was formed to build game development studios where game developers can build careers in a positive environment and reliably turn their creative vision and effort into exceptional experiences that consistently delight their fans.

We’re always looking for talented game developers and would love to hear from you.

Imagine working at a company where world-class game developers, great infrastructure and a culture of people and creativity first come together to create new, original games.
Imagine shipping your creations and seeing them become AAA games.
Then, envision achieving all of this while building a stable and fulfilling career.

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Art/Animation

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Our studio is searching for a world-class real-time Visual Effects Artist. 

 

Who You Are: 

  • You are a game maker who is acutely aware of the role your work plays in the final product.
  • You are able to work collaboratively with a strong creative team.
  • You are dependable and have the ability to deliver high quality, performant VFX on time.
  • You are an expert in Unreal Engine 4 VFX tools with an emphasis on Cascade and Materials.
  • You are learning Niagara and are excited to explore the possibilities of this new tool!
  • You have a strong understanding of animation fundamentals and can express a broad range of animation styles.
  • You have strong traditional art skills and leverage them to add life to your VFX.
  • You are an expert in Photoshop and After Effects.
  • You are an expert in a minimum of one 3D software package.
  • You are experienced with Houdini and can use it to generate runtime simulations and animations.
  • You have a strong understanding of the performance implications of your VFX and find creative optimizations that maintain visual quality.

 

What Your Day Might Look Like: 

  • Meet with the Art team to discuss qualitative feedback from the most recent playtest. 
  • Work with an Environment Artist to seamlessly integrate your VFX into a level.
  • Have lunch with a prospective new hire.
  • Deconstruct slo-mo footage of ordinance detonations to improve your animated texture sheet.
  • Build an amazing new magic effect that inspires Design to evolve a character ability.
  • Spend some time playing the most recent build, making notes, and communicating feedback to the team. 

 

Our studio is a team of seasoned interactive designers and storytellers. Our team is dedicated to creating unique game worlds with unparalleled cohesive integration of gameplay design and storytelling.

 

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Our studio is looking for an Environment Concept Artist who is incredibly passionate about games and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players. Our Environment Concept Artist is responsible for creating spectacular environment-focus concept art and helping our team achieve their aesthetic vision.

WHO YOU ARE

  • You are personally driven to achieve excellence in concept art, with a special talent for environments, PVP/competitive map design and world building.
  • You find it deeply satisfying to work collaboratively to create evocative new worlds that excite the imagination.
  • You pride yourself in your ability to create concept art that communicates and helps all members of our team succeed.
  • You are an excellent communicator both verbally and through your art; whether it be an epic tone piece or a simple napkin sketch.
  • Not only is your portfolio amazing, it clearly shows a passion for shaping and creating player-focused experiences.
  • You find time to play video games and empathize deeply with players because you are a gamer at heart.
  • You have shipped at least one successful AAA title from start to finish, or equivalent game development experience.
  • You have a basic working knowledge of Unreal Engine or a similar engine.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

  • Meeting with our Game Director, Lead World Artist and World Tech Artist to review your most recent work.
  • Collaborating with a Level Designer to create spaces that are fun to play as well as aesthetically compelling.
  • Joining a playtest session to give notes and see how your concept art is translating into gameplay.
  • Syncing with your team manager to plan your career goals for the next year.
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Our studio is searching for a world-class Senior Animator with a strong passion for crafting jaw-dropping combat animations. 

 

Who you are:

  • You have a demonstrable track record of delivering high-quality play experiences through animation.
  • You have a deep understanding of physical behavior, kinesiology, and believable performance.
  • You demonstrate aesthetic flexibility and identify stylistically appropriate performance. (both physical and behavioral)
  • You have an aptitude for cross-discipline collaboration and are excited to work closely with multidisciplinary teams to define the requirements and character of animation content.
  • You believe an important part of your role is storyboarding player experience, turning rough ideas into something tangible, then iterating.
  • You feel comfortable owning a challenge and taking it to a high standard of completion.
  • You investigate and stay current on the latest technologies, considering how they might apply to the current workflow.
  • You are excited to learn and share new techniques, generate fresh approaches, and elevate creative conversation.
  • You are experienced with character setup using auto-rigging tools, and other utilities built by tech artists.
  • You aren't afraid to look through state machines and think about how technical animation setup in engine relates to your work.
  • You strive to make animation content fit into the whole of the game and consider the lenses through which narrative, audio, and design teams view character performance.

 

What your day might look like:

  • Sync with the art team on milestone goals and priorities.
  • Spend the morning animating gameplay clips for prototype mechanics that design is exploring.
  • Mine some Yuen Woo-ping film choreography for inspiration between working group meetings.
  • Meet with collaborators on design and engineering to outline animation priorities for blended animation systems.
  • Collaborate with a technical artist to determine which rig additions might make for better deformation and articulation.
  • Mockup a new feature or experience the creative team has been talking about.
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Our studio is looking for a Character Technical Artist who is incredibly passionate about characters and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players.  You will be helping to build and maintain the "glue" between character art, animation, tools, and engineering for our project.


WHO YOU ARE

  • You enjoy solving technical problems and take pride in enabling others to do their best work through technical solutions.
  • You have shipped at least two successful AAA titles from start to finish, or equivalent game development experience as a character technical artist or rigger.
  • You have a deep understanding of Unreal Engine and have a desire to push it to its limits for characters.
  • You are capable of building exceptional animation rigs inside Maya.
  • You have experience working with Python or Pymel and have used it to help create large impactful tools for artists, riggers or animators. Bonus if you have C++ or C# experience.
  • Not only can you code but you can design features or tools that work well within a larger pipeline.
  • You love making video games and can empathize deeply with our players.
  • You can foster good working relationships with fellow teammates and can use your technical knowledge to bridge gaps and solve misunderstandings.

 WHAT YOU WILL DO

  • Work closely with Modelers, Animators and Designers when iterating on a character. Be able to give rigging feedback about what is working, what isn't, and give advice on technical solutions to solve problems.
  • Be responsible for a character's rigging and deformation all the way down the pipeline, both in Maya and Unreal.
  • Code new pipelines and rigging techniques in Maya or Unreal to raise the bar on character performances.
  • Communicate well with others as you help evangelize a new pipeline or tool. Be the "glue" that brings disciplines together.
  • You will support team members with desk side support and help everyone push the boundaries of Character Tech.
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Our studio is looking for a Lead World Artist who is passionate about art, games and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players. Our Lead World Artist is responsible for guiding and inspiring a team of talented World Artists in bringing to life the incredible places in the team’s collective imagination.

 

WHO YOU ARE

  • You strive for excellence in environment art and world-building, with a flair for both the aesthetic and the technical.
  • You have a passion for building competitive games and enjoy playing them.
  • Your portfolio reflects your experience, your love for creating new worlds and the technical mastery of your tools.
  • You have a strong understanding of gameplay needs within the environments you create, and you enjoy the collaborative goal of finding the perfect balance with design and visuals.
  • You pride yourself in your ability to effectively listen to and communicate with every member of your team in a way that inspires a confident and respectful workplace.
  • You have experience shipping AAA titles or equivalent game development experience.
  • You are well-versed in modern tools and techniques for creating optimized and textured game-ready content, with an eye towards the cutting edge.
  • You have knowledge and experience in Unreal Engine and/or are excited to learn.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

  • Meeting with our Game Director and Level Designers to review your team's most recent work.
  • Getting your hands dirty in-engine and building environments with your team.
  • Collaborating with Concept Artists to help translate designs into 3D play spaces.
  • Joining a playtest session to give notes and see how your environments feel in actual play.
  • Meeting with your team to plan your goals for the next year.
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Audio

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Our studio is looking for an Audio Director who is incredibly passionate about games and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players. Our Audio Director is responsible for developing and communicating an inspiring soundscape, advocating for a game that sounds incredible, and helping the Game Director to achieve the creative vision.

 

WHO YOU ARE

  • You love making video games and can empathize deeply with our players.
  • You are personally driven to achieve excellence in all audio disciplines. You find it deeply satisfying to exceed expectations of how great you can make a game sound.
  • You have successfully led audio teams to victory and have significant experience working well with project leadership.
  • Your audio direction comes across as consistent, reliable, and easy to understand.
  • You are literate enough in the other development disciplines to understand how each component is affected by your team's work.
  • You are technical enough to have a deep understanding of how audio direction translates into the game medium and how recent innovations can help your team succeed.
  • You know how to effectively convey gameplay information to the player through audio within the context of a consistent, immersive soundscape.
  • You have shipped at least two successful AAA titles from start to finish, or equivalent game development experience.
  • Experience with the Unreal 4 Engine and Wwise is a big plus.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

  • Reviewing the most recent audio content and writing up notes for next steps.
  • Meeting with engineering leadership for your weekly sync to discuss tools and workflow.
  • Working with the Game Director to collaborate on notes for a proposal for a new character.
  • Implementing audio for a new feature.
  • Taking a newly hired Audio Designer out to lunch to talk about games they've been playing & movies they're looking forward to.
  • Syncing with a contract composer for progress on a new piece of music. 

 

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Corporate Administration

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ProbablyMonsters is a developer of AAA studios that unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create original content and exceptional interactive experiences. Our shared purpose is to build the next generation of AAA game development studios where people, culture, and creativity come first.

We’re looking for a caring, confident, tactful, high-performing, and highly organized individual to assist a creative CEO with a demanding schedule. You will act as liaison and representative for the CEO, proactively providing the assistance needed to support him in achieving strategic goals and the long-term vision for the company. The position requires someone with a proven track record in organizing and prioritizing outcomes for busy executives and the flexibility to work well as a team player to tackle a wide range of responsibilities.  
 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage the Chief Executive Officer’s complex, ever-changing calendar by arranging and prioritizing meetings, appointments, special events, office visits, and travel
  • Proactively manage multiple, complex details for the Chief Executive Officer’s involvement in running a cooperative family of gaming studios
  • Proactively identify action items to take off the CEO’s plate, enabling him to focus on higher-level tasks. This may include handling occasional personal errands
  • Serve as the primary point of initial contact for all correspondence, telephone calls, and on-site guests
  • Receive, screen, manage, evaluate, and determine an appropriate response to all correspondence directed to the CEO or Executive Office, whether email, written, or other
  • Manage accounting/reporting of expenses of the Chief Executive Officer and the Board as needed
  • Act as primary liaison and provide administrative assistance to the Executive Team, Board members, other company leads, and team members, using a high level of discretion on sensitive issues
  • Copy Editing
  • Graphic Design 

WHO YOU ARE
 

  • Prefer five years’ experience as an Executive Assistant to CEO or other senior level Executives
  • Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work with highly diverse groups of people
  • Superior time management skills - ability to prioritize a great deal of information, tasks, and relationships
  • Excellent attention to detail and follow-through
  • Impeccable writing and communication skills
  • Ability to work flexible hours as needed (evening and weekend availability)
  • Master in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Illustrator and Calendar scheduling
  • Energizing and uplifting personality; proactive with a solution-oriented attitude
  • Committed to excellence 
  • Demonstrates grace, tact, diplomacy, and professionalism when interacting with others
  • Patient, flexible and adaptable - able to react positively and quickly to last-minute changes in logistics or company needs
  • Delivers under pressure - proven track record working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, requiring a high level of attention
  • Quick, concise, and intelligent decision-maker, able to quickly identify the best course of action without depending on the direction from CEO or others
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Design

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Our studio is looking for a Gameplay Designer who loves and understands the power of games and is excited to bring exceptional entertainment to millions of players. Our Gameplay Designers are responsible for demonstrating best-in-industry creation of core gameplay and driving multi-disciplinary gameplay development to realize our Game Director's creative vision.


WHO YOU ARE

  • You are literate in and deeply passionate about core gameplay and interaction design fundamentals.
  • You understand and can speak to what makes a game “feel” right and advocate for prioritizing a player’s gameplay experience.
  • You are excited to collaboratively design, implement and polish world-class gameplay experiences and player verbs.
  • You are highly technical and feel right at home communicating your thoughts directly to engineers, writing specs, and handling complex content setup, including Blueprint-like prototyping.
  • You look forward to working with other teams, including Audio, Effects and Animation to deliver incredible gameplay content.
  • You consider and design for making moment-to-moment gameplay as accessible to all players as possible.
  • You are adamant about creating a positive and inclusive work environment to support and nurture diverse talent.
  • You are self-sufficient and motivated, unafraid to ask for help when needed, and always excited to receive and execute on feedback.
  • You understand that clear and concise communication is the lifeblood to game development and can communicate effectively both orally and written.
  • You have shipped at least two successful "AAA" titles from start to finish, or have equivalent game development experience.
  • You find time to play video games and empathize deeply with our players, because you are a gamer at heart.
  • Experience with the Unreal 4 Engine is a big plus.

 WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

  • Iterating on a new core mechanic or player verb that you're excited about.
  • Playtesting, giving feedback, and helping other Gameplay Designers debug and analyze existing and new features.
  • Reviewing a critical feature with the Gameplay Lead.
  • Working with the Design Team Manager to help develop a plan for your career goals.

 

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Engineering

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We are looking for a Services Architect to lead development efforts on both internal facing services that support game development and external player facing game services. This is an exciting and challenging position with the opportunity to do green field development and build systems from the ground up.  


Who you are: 

  • You have at least 7 to 10 years of experience as a senior software engineer shipping, high quality, high concurrency, services.
  • You have a proven ability to design complete systems, lead the team through implementation and ultimately ship. You're passionate about supportable systems and make that a priority.
  • You're excited by the opportunity to build something from the ground up.  You deal with ambiguity well and know how to nail down requirements and details.
  • You are comfortable coding in both native (C++), managed code (C#, Java) and various scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, etc..).
  • You have experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google, etc…) and understand how to architect services to run in the cloud.
  • You're a wizard when it comes to performance analysis and debugging all levels of, live, complex systems.
  • You're knowledgeable in the networking layer used for communication between services and have the ability to work at the code level in this area.
  • You're passionate about the quality of the services you develop and take responsibility to look into live site issues.
  • You take what you learn and improve those systems.  
  • You have at least 3 years experience working intimately with game engines, know their internals and how to host them server side.   UE4 knowledge is a big plus.

 What your day might look like:   

  • You start your day reading about some new technology that you've been considering.  While you're reading another engineer stops by with a question, you help them out and they head off to their desks with the answers they need to move past that issue.
  • You then head to the kitchen where one of your teammates is brewing a killer cup of coffee.   This week's brew is some awesome Ethiopian beans.
  • While enjoying your coffee, you knock out a couple code reviews for your teammates and then take some time to make a little progress on your design document for a new micro-service the team is working on.
  • Before lunch, you catch up with your lead, whiteboard out some of the service work the team will be focusing on over the next month and hash out priorities, as well as, who should be working on what.  
  • Lunch time!  You grab a couple teammates, and head down to Bellevue to grab food - or maybe you pick up lunch and then hang out with the team to play some video games while you take a breather.
  • After lunch you block out some time to start prototyping one of the services you are working on.   You've got the initial prototype working so you spin up some cloud resources to test out deployment.  
  • In the afternoon you meet with one of the studio engineering leads to chat about some improvements to one of the internal services/systems that are used across the studios.   Your brainstorming session results in some cool new features that will help the studios isolate engine issues faster and make them even more productive.

 

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Our Studio is searching for a Senior Animation Engineer with a passion for building powerful, intuitive animation tech and pipelines that enable our studio to create industry leading game characters and performances.


Who You Are:

  • Expert understanding of Unreal's animation systems.
  • Fluid at systems in C++, blueprint & scripting language.
  • Deep understanding on how to make combat look and feel amazing
  • Comfortable mentoring engineers.
  • Knowledgeable about making convincing dialog performances.
  • Diligent at writing unit, integration and performance tests.
  • Work with tech art and animators to design, review & implement new pipelines
  • Good communication skills & cross team collaboration.
  • Vigilant at performing and signing off on code reviews.

What Your Day Might Look Like:

  • Work with designers and tech artist to design and implement new feature.
  • Write tests to automatically detect regressions in animation functionality
  • Interview new candidates and help build highly effective team.

Our Studio is a team of seasoned interactive designers and storytellers. Our team is dedicated to creating unique game worlds with unparalleled cohesive integration of gameplay design and storytelling.

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Our studio is searching for a Senior Tools Engineer with a passion for building powerful, intuitive game development tools that enable our studio to create industry-leading gameplay and story experiences.

Who You Are:
Expert at adding functionality to the Unreal Editor.
Fluid at writing systems in C++, blueprint & scripting languages.
Contain a deep understanding of Unreal's content and ingestion pipelines.
Diligent at writing unit, integration, and performance tests.
Excellent collaboration skills for finding friction in workflows & creating tools to streamline the process.
Vigilant at performing and signing off on code reviews.
Comfortable mentoring engineers.
Profound desire to automate everything and remove the ability for mistakes.


What Your Day Might Look Like:
Work with Art to discover pipeline issues that are causing wasted time.
Interview new candidates and help build a highly capable team.
Review code and ensuring the team is not collecting the tech dept.


We are a team of seasoned interactive designers and storytellers. Our team is dedicated to creating unique game worlds with unparalleled cohesive integration of game-play design and storytelling.

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Information Technology

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ProbablyMonsters is a developer of AAA studios that unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create original content and exceptional interactive experiences. Our shared purpose is to build the next generation of AAA game development studios where people, culture, and creativity come first.

ProbablyMonsters is looking for a Help Desk Administrator to be responsible for administrative tasks and projects related to our infrastructure. The Help Desk Administrator will also respond to, and resolve incoming help desk requests from both our studios and internal teams.

WHO YOU ARE
  • You are personally driven to achieve excellence in technology.
  • You find it deeply satisfying to exceed expectations and enable others to meet and even exceed their goals.
  • You have at least three years of experience as a Help Desk Administrator that has included Windows Server administration.
  • You understand how to identify and prioritize requests and can multitask to solve multiple issues concurrently with minimal direction.
  • You understand that Help Desk requests are random in both time and subject matter and are experienced with the level of context switching these demands.
  • You're passionate and effective at working with others.
  • You're able to develop streamlined processes for IT functions.
  • You've had experience creating and managing a client imaging process, maintaining and updating server operating systems, troubleshooting server and domain issues, and understand the importance of both backups as well as restores.
  • You are comfortable with different hardware components and can install servers into a rack with minimal guidance.
  • You can build a domain if handed hardware to build it on.
  • You are not only both a Windows Client and Windows Server guru but can also navigate and troubleshoot Linux systems with ease.
  • You have a solid understanding of networking technologies.
  • You would not be afraid to log in to a switch to make needed changes.
  • You enjoy writing automation using various scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
  • You find time to play video games and empathize deeply with our players because you are a gamer at heart.

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE
  • You start your day by making a quick pass around the site to ensure all the AV gear is ready for the days awesome game demos and studio collaboration.
  • You then brew a killer cup of coffee with one of your teammates in the kitchen. This week's brew is a nice dark roast from Ethiopia.
  • While enjoying your coffee, you hear from someone that one of the rooms isn't connecting to WiFi. No problem! You log in to the WiFi management portal, start troubleshooting, find an authentication issue, and solve it with ease. You walk over to the room to verify connectivity.
  • Back at your desk, you check out the help desk board and do a quick prioritization of issues. You're passionate about the helpdesk running like a well-oiled machine.
  • Helpdesk is in order. You now have some free time to investigate that file system replication issue on one of the domain controllers.
  • Before you can get to the bottom of the issue, someone walks up to your desk. They are locked out of their workstation. You perform an account unlock and password reset, and they are on their way.
  • It's already lunchtime! You grab a couple of colleagues and head down out for a bite – or maybe you brought lunch, and you're going to hang out with the team and play some video games while you take a breather.
  • After lunch, your lead walks up – it's time to review the networking plan for connecting our new domain to AWS. The two of you grab a whiteboard and brainstorm about this. Now you can start on some of the deployment automation.
  • Another ticket comes in. One of the studios has a new hire starting next week — time to run through the on-boarding tasks and start building out a sweet new workstation. You swing by and talk briefly with the studio head. While you're there, one of the designers shows you some of the sweet stuff she has been working on.
  • The day's about done when one of the systems starts alerting. The monitoring dashboard shows this as a downed domain controller. You do a quick investigation; false alarm. Looks like a problem with the monitoring agent. You communicate the false alarm to the team. You were already planning some changes to that system which should avoid these in the future. You talk to your lead for a few minutes to make sure this is prioritized for tomorrow.
  • You head home knowing there are still some people working in the studios as they have a milestone that is due next week. You are on-call this week and are prepared to step in should anyone run into any issues.
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ProbablyMonsters is a developer of AAA studios that unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create original content and exceptional interactive experiences. Our shared purpose is to build the next generation of AAA game development studios where people, culture, and creativity come first.

 

ProbablyMonsters is looking for a Senior Build and Release Engineer to join our release management team. Our Senior Build and Release Engineer is responsible for managing our source control systems, making the build farm hum like a well-oiled machine, and taking our continuous integration/delivery systems to the next level. 

 

 WHO YOU ARE

  • You are respectful, trustworthy and approachable.
  • You have many years of experience managing source control, build farms, and CI/CD systems for “AAA" game development.
  • You have expert knowledge of Perforce.
  • You are passionate and effective at working with others.
  • You are driven to achieve excellence in technology.
  • You have deep experience in and knowledge of automation and continuous integration technologies.
  • You are well versed in both Windows and Linux and the underlying infrastructure needed to support performant systems.
  • You are an expert troubleshooter who is comfortable diving into complex systems.

 

NICE TO HAVE ATTRIBUTES

  • Experience with Unreal 4.
  • Experience with Jenkins.
  • Experience with multiple source control platforms.
  • Experience with console, PC and mobile development.
  • You enjoy playing video games.

 

WHAT YOUR DAY MIGHT LOOK LIKE

  • You start your day by checking the status of overnight builds.
  • Investigating a slow build, you find the root causes and make a few configuration changes to Jenkins.
  • You start to spec out some additional hardware needed to scale the build farm to the next level, taking some time to dig into the latest SSD and GPU technologies.
  • You meet with the studio engineering leads to review and make long term development plans.
  • Before lunch, you start on some of that automation to optimize check-in gates.
  • After lunch, back to coding. You're making a lot of progress on those optimizations.
  • One of the testers stops by your desk. Some deployment failures are happening on the farm. You help with some investigations and get things back up and running.
  • It is time to do some brainstorming on how we might further extend build compute.
  • The day is about to end. You take a last look at some of the dashboards to make sure everything's in order before heading out for the night.
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Production

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Our studio is looking for an Executive Producer who is incredibly passionate about making games and bringing exceptional entertainment to millions of players. You will be part of our leadership team, responsible for setting a clear and achievable plan for our current project. Keeping us focused and resilient and being a beacon for studio culture. You will need strong interpersonal and leadership skills to help our teams work better together. You will support everyone to help deliver a world-class multiplayer experience. Would you be excited about achieving our goals with us?

WHO YOU ARE
You wake up excited about making awesome games, and building a world-class production team in order to do so.
You have extraordinary expertise in successfully debugging and refining development processes. You're passionate about helping people and teams find a better way to work together.
You are thrilled to work on both long-range resource and production planning as well as near-term execution of these strategies. You can switch between macro and micro views of the project to ensure we are planning effectively.
You have the communication skills necessary to push project leadership to be decisive and take on hard choices without creating long-term resentment or friction.
You are often the calm in the storm, and model effective and respectful communication for the rest of the team. You believe that shipping a world-class game is easier when groups approach each other with trust, respect, and clarity, and you live that every day.
You can draw complex information from teammates to accurately forecast where we're heading, spot trouble before it arrives, and push the team to address it.
You have shipped successful "AAA" titles from start to finish, including online/live game experiences.
You find time to know the industry, play video games, and empathize deeply with our players because you love making games.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Build out an experienced and trusted production team, focusing on growth and mentorship.
Work with the Game Director to develop, drive, and update a master project schedule.
Ensure strong communication and transparency for efforts across the studio.
Map out risk mitigation plans for our near-term and long-term project deliverables.
Coordinate with test to understand scope better for complex features.
Work with leadership on development and deployment of studio-level strategic initiatives.
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Quality Assurance

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Our Studio is looking for a Functional QA Lead for our headquarters to build and manage a world-class team as we embark on a journey spanning multiple years.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

QA as a discipline at ProbablyMonsters is responsible for confirming and reporting on the status of projects developed by our studios by writing, executing and reporting against test plans, milestone verification and other tasks related to removing ambiguity around deliverables and verifying quality standards and design intent.

As a Functional QA Lead, you will work directly with our Studios to define best QA practices and ensure that they are delivering projects with minimal bug wake and high efficiency, leading to more iteration and better experiences for their players. You will work across multiple disciplines to implement and effectively utilize QA resources against the unique goals of each project. You will help teams take QA responsibilities into account in development and ensure that there is a strong culture of quality.

The Functional QA Lead will not only provide key project support but also help us focus our QA approach across all efforts. You will participate in hiring, on-boarding and training new QA professionals, provide insight and guidance on the creation, maintenance and improvement of QA tools and processes, and lead the charge in closing and shipping projects.

WHO YOU ARE:
  • 4 plus years’ experience testing software or games
  • 2 plus years’ experience as a QA Lead
  • Thorough understanding of test methodologies
  • Ability to write test plans, test specs and test cases
  • Ability to train and collaborate with developers on upholding best QA practices
  • Ability to maintain a strong culture of quality and mutual respect with partner development teams
  • Ability to utilize test tools such as bug databases and test case management software
  • Experience with agile or scrum development
  • Passion for Test as a discipline and a desire to participate in making ProbablyMonsters the best place in the world to work in Test
  • Flexibility to move between projects and adjust schedules in alignment with business needs
  • Solid project management and technical experience with knowledge of software life cycle and understanding of applicable practices, principles and methodologies
  • Ability to communicate effectively and present to a diverse audience.
  • Proven managerial skills including team building, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, negotiation, and decision making
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Proven record of maintaining professionalism and confidentiality with proprietary information
  • Experience testing at least one AAA game
  • Experience testing and passion for first person shooters
  • Experience testing a multiplayer game

NICE TO HAVE:
  • Experience working with the Unreal engine
  • Experience supporting a live game
  • Experience working directly with game development teams
  • ISTQB Foundation certification
  • ISTQB Manager certification
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ProbablyMonsters is a developer of AAA studios that unite, guide, and empower talented teams to create original content and exceptional interactive experiences. Our shared purpose is to build the next generation of AAA game development studios where people, culture and creativity come first.


We are looking for a QA Engineering Lead for our headquarters to build and manage a world-class team as we embark on a journey spanning multiple years.


Duties and Responsibilities:

QA as a discipline at ProbablyMonsters is responsible for confirming and reporting on the status of projects developed by our partners. Executing against and reporting on test plans, milestone verification’s, as well as other tasks related to verifying the quality standards of the deliverables.

As a QA Engineering Lead, you will contribute to this goal by interfacing with functional QA leads and partner developers to architect solutions for improving QA efforts from early prototyping through launch and sustainment. You will lead a team responsible for insight, guidance and the creation of reusable tools or automation across multiple projects.  You will also be responsible for hiring, onboarding and training new QA Engineers as well as acting as an advisor in shipping projects.


Requirements for success:

  • 8 plus years’ experience testing games.
  • 4 plus years’ experience as a Test Lead, with at least one full game cycle.
  • Professional coding experience in programming languages like C#, or C++.
  • Knowledge of Java, JavaScript or Python.
  • An understanding of test methodologies and when to best utilize them.
  • Experience training\mentoring Test Engineers.
  • Ability to write test specs and test passes against the provided test plan.
  • Ability to both oversee the execution of test passes as well as auditing bugs for quality and actionability.
  • Ability to mentor developers on QA best practices.
  • Ability to maintain a strong culture of quality and mutual respect with partner development teams.
  • Experience designing and maintaining large automated test suites using test case management software.
  • Experience with agile or scrum development.
  • Flexibility to move between projects and adjust schedules in alignment with business needs.
  • Ability to architect a broad range of scalable processes and software solutions.
  • Experience working with the Unreal engine.
  • Experience supporting a live game.
  • Experience working directly with game development teams.
  • Experience hiring and building effective teams.


Nice to have:

  • Experience shipping at least one AAA game through a full development cycle.
  • Experience doing / supporting data mining.

 

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Our Studio is looking for a Functional QA Lead for our headquarters to build and manage a world-class team as we embark on a journey spanning multiple years.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

QA as a discipline at ProbablyMonsters is responsible for confirming and reporting on the status of projects developed by a partner studio by writing, executing, and reporting against test plans, milestone verification, and other tasks related to removing ambiguity around deliverables and verifying quality standards and design intent.

As a Functional QA Lead, you will work directly with a partner studio to define best QA practices and partner with them to meet project deliverables with minimal bug wake and high efficiency, leading to more iteration and better experiences for their players. You will work across multiple disciplines to implement and effectively utilize QA resources against the unique goals of each project. You will help teams take QA responsibilities into account in development and champion a strong culture of quality.

The Functional QA Lead will not only provide key project support but also help us focus our QA approach across all efforts. You will participate in hiring, on-boarding and training new QA professionals, provide insight and guidance on the creation, maintenance, and improvement of QA tools and processes, and lead the charge in closing and shipping projects.

WHO YOU ARE:

  • Typically, eight-plus years’ experience testing software or games
  • Typically, five-plus years’ experience as a QA Lead
  • Responsible for writing test plans, test specs, and test cases
  • Ability to mentor and collaborate with developers on upholding best QA practices
  • Ability to maintain a strong culture of quality and mutual respect with partner development teams
  • Ability to utilize test tools such as bug databases and test case management software
  • Experience with agile or scrum development
  • Passion for Test as a discipline and career path
  • Solid project management and technical expertise with knowledge of software life cycle and understanding of applicable practices, principles, and methodologies
  • Ability to communicate effectively and present to a diverse audience
  • Proven managerial skills including team building, conflict resolution, stakeholder management, negotiation, and decision making
  • Proven record of maintaining professionalism and confidentiality with proprietary information
  • Experience testing at least one AAA game
  • Experience working with the Unreal engine
  • Experience managing game projects with long term sustainment plans
  • Experience working directly with game development teams

 

NICE TO HAVE:

  • Experience testing a multiplayer game
  • Experience testing open-ended games
  • ISTQB Foundation certification
  • ISTQB Manager certification

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Career FAQs

Upon submission, you will receive an automated message stating your resume has been received and will be reviewed thoroughly by our recruiting team.

Due to the high volume of applications received, it is not possible to respond directly to each candidate.
If you are selected, you will be contacted for an initial phone screen by the recruiting team.

The next step is a second phone or video interview, or an invite to come out and meet us at any of our Studios.
In the event that we choose not to move forward at any point in the recruiting process, we will let you know.
If your qualifications don’t match the criteria of a current position, your resume will be kept on file for future consideration and you are always welcome to reapply if you see an opportunity that may align to your skill sets.

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Add the link to your online portfolio/demo reel to the Website section under “Additional Files.” If your site is password protected, please be sure to provide us with the password on the following page. Refer to the job posting for specific submission requirements. Digital copies are encouraged and preferred.

Demo reels should be one to three minutes in length.
Unless you are an Animator, demo reels are not necessary for all submissions. We place emphasis on artwork process breakdown.

Due to the quantity of submissions received, we are not able to offer individual feedback. However, you will receive an email acknowledging receipt of your application.

We recommend applying when there is a significant change to your work experiences that might influence your candidacy, if your contact information has changed or if you are applying to a newly posted requisition that aligns with your recent skill set. All information is kept on file for two years.

Yes, we encourage students to apply. All internships will be posted to our career page by March of each year. Please apply when you see the internship opportunity posted.

You receive Medical, Dental and Vision benefits, as well as Paid vacation, Paid Sabbatical and Paid Holidays.