http://www.smokingguninc.com/content.html#careers Get the latest Job Offerings Direct from Smoking Gun Interactive en-us http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/sginc_logo_orange.jpg http://www.smokingguninc.com http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/lead_game_designer.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a talented, passionate and experienced individual to take on the role of Lead Game Designer in helping to create our next generation cross-platform original concept title. The role requires an individual who demonstrates an exceptional level of literacy in game design, intimate knowledge of the process of building AAA-quality games, and proven ability to lead, mentor, and motivate a team of designers. The Lead Designer is creative, self-driven, and able to clearly and concisely communicate ideas in written and verbal form. They lead by example and thrive on creative collaboration with art and programming teams to achieve the game’s vision. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience in game mechanics and level design on multiple AAA-quality titles. The Lead Designer sets and delivers on goals, while supervising the quality of creative and technical aspects of the work produced by the design team for the duration of the project. The Lead Designer works closely with Leads of other disciplines, as well as project’s Directors to create an exceptional quality product on schedule. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:00:00 PDT lead_game_designer_august_12_2008_posting Design http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/senior_strategy_game_designer.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a talented, passionate individual with solid Strategy Game background and experience to take on the role of Senior Game Designer on our next generation cross-platform original content title. The ideal candidate is an expert in an area of strategy game design, able to deliver everything from the design document to the implementation of a final-quality mechanic/gameplay mode/mission. They have recent experience in strategy game development and possess a keen understanding of the challenges of content creation, tuning and balancing. They are self-driven, striving to create an exceptional product but always delivering to the schedule. The candidate has hands-on experience working on two or more AAA-quality titles. The Senior Game Designer role requires an experienced and versatile individual who can lead by example and mentor others to improve the overall quality of design. They have a strong literacy in game design and are able to clearly and concisely communicate ideas in written and verbal form. The candidate has a flexible nature and a desire to collaborate with art and programming teams to achieve results that everybody can be proud of. The Senior Game Designer collaborates closely with the Lead Designer in realizing the vision of the project’s Creative Director. Tue, 3 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PDT senior_strategy_designer_july_03_2008_posting Design http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/lead_gameplay_programmer.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a passionate individual to take on the role of Lead Gameplay Programmer to help push Gameplay for our next generation cross-platform original concept title to new limits. The Lead Gameplay Programmer role requires an individual who loves to play games, from console/computer games to board games, always keeping an eye out for innovative/unique gameplay mechanics. Candidates must posses a real passion for programming and strive to create technically inspiring code. The candidate is an excellent communicator and can work equally well with Design, Programming, Art and Production to accomplish the goal of creating innovative ground breaking gameplay. He/She must have excellent analytical skills with the ability to break a game/concept down to its fundamental core gameplay mechanics, always keeping an eye out for the most elegant solution for code and game mechanics. A real passion for contributing to the overall game design is a requirement. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:30:00 PDT lead_gameplay_programmer_july_16_2007_posting Programming http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/senior_programmer.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a passionate individual to take on the role of Senior Programmer. Senior programmers at Smoking Gun Interactive should have experience in varied areas of game development and be able and willing to work on any area of game programming needed. The Senior Programmer role requires an individual with a real passion for playing games. Candidates must posses a real passion for programming and strive to create technically inspiring code. The candidate is an excellent communicator and can work equally well with Design, Programming, Art and Production to help build the technology needed to create successful, award-winning products. The candidate must also have excellent analytical skills and strive for perfection in the work that they do. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:30:00 PDT senior_programmer_july_16_2007_posting Programming http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/lead_technical_artist.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a Lead Technical Artist to drive the art pipeline technology for our next generation cross-platform title. Lead Technical Artist role requires an experienced and forward-thinking leader whose passion is to design powerful, artist-friendly, and game engine-efficient tools and pipelines that help shape and bring an artistic vision to life. Ideal candidate demonstrates an exceptional level of creativity, proficiency, and satisfaction in problem-solving both artistic and technical challenges as the project vision requires. He/She is a great communicator who possesses equal comfort level in collaborating with artists and programmers towards reaching the goal - creating high quality art assets that are easily integrated into the game engine and meet technical platform constrains without sacrificing artistic integrity. Lead Technical Artist will define the production techniques used by artists, help design and document the art tools and workflow, educate/train the art team in the pipeline to ensure artists operate at peak efficiency, and supervise all technical aspects of art production over the duration of the project. Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:00:02 PDT lead_technical_artist_july_03_2007_posting Art http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/lead_concept_artist.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for an exceptionally talented individual to take on a role of the Lead Concept Artist to help establish and develop the artistic vision for our next generation cross-platform original content title. Lead Concept Artist role requires an experienced, versatile, forward-thinking, and traditionally trained artist whose passion is to imagine and visually communicate a grand artistic vision to create a unique universe for the game. The ideal candidate has proven experience in creating high quality large scale production paintings (i.e. for mood, high action, environmental design, matte paintings), portraits and action pose renders (character design and/or industrial design of units), as well as model/texture production layouts (detailed multi-view layouts used as direct modeling reference). He/She is artistically versatile and willing to explore diverse art styles, and can communicate and iterate on ideas quickly by way of sketches. Lead Concept Artist will be creatively involved in conception and development of the artistic vision for the project in close collaboration with Art Director. He/She will be the key visual communicator of the vision by producing team-inspiring artwork to serve as blueprint for production. Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:00:01 PDT lead_concept_artist_july_03_2007_posting Art http://www.smokingguninc.com/careers/senior_game_designer.html Smoking Gun Interactive is looking for a talented, passionate individual to take on the role of Senior Game Designer in helping to create our next generation cross-platform original content title. The ideal candidate is an expert in their area of game design, able to deliver everything from the design document to the implementation of a final-quality level. The candidate is self-driven, striving to create an exceptional product but always delivering to the schedule. The candidate has hands-on experience working in game mechanics design and level design on two or more AAA-quality titles. The Senior Game Designer role requires an experienced and versatile individual who can lead by example and mentor others to improve the overall quality of design. They have a strong literacy in game design and are able to clearly and concisely communicate ideas in written and verbal form. The candidate has a flexible nature and a desire to collaborate with art and programming teams to achieve results that everybody can be proud of. The Senior Game Designer collaborates closely with the Lead Designer in realizing the vision of the project’s Creative Director. Tue, 2 Jul 2008 17:00:00 PDT senior_designer_july_02_2008_posting Design