About Old Skool Studios

We create high quality online slot games for real-money markets. In 2019 we joined the Microgaming family as a first-party independent studio. We are a relatively small, tight-knit, passionate, and highly experienced team with an exciting content roadmap, and we’re always looking to grow our team.

Old Skool Studios is located in the historic Shipyards District of North Vancouver, with convenient access to Lonsdale Quay and transit.

Responsibilities:

• Managing & mentoring the Creative Team through strong leadership with artists, animators, composers, and sound engineers.
• Providing feedback and guidance to the members of our Creative Team.
• Managing the Creative Team daily tasks, assignments, backlogs, sprints, and reviews ensuring our games are delivered on schedule.
• Using Jira, work logs, and KPI reports to measure team performance and resource capacity ensuring that optimal team output.
• Initiating, managing, and conducting recruitment efforts and interviews for the Creative Team.
• Managing relationships with our outsource partners.
• Supporting & assisting the Creative Team with the creation of game materials from concept through final delivery.
• Supporting & assisting the Design Team and Game Producers with game specifications and the Game Design Document.
• Reviewing game assets and materials to assess their quality and relevance to the game specifications.
• Ensuring game assets are developed and optimized for best performance and highest possible game fidelity.
• Setting and sharing best practices, tools, quality standards, SOP’s, production pipelines, productivity, and workflows within the Creative Team, and identifying areas of improvement with our work process.
• Following each game’s development workflow through final release to ensure the final game is the highest quality possible and fulfills the expectations of the Product Owner.
• Supporting Marketing and Sales efforts in marketing, promoting and selling the games to our customers.
• Establishing and maintaining a positive studio brand.

Required:

• 3+ years as a Creative Director, Art Director, or 5+ years as a Slot Game Producer in the iGaming space.
• BA/BS in fine art, illustration, graphic design, or equivalent work experience.
• Strong track-record of leading slot game art with the successful production of premium quality online slot games.
• Strong understanding of online casino game art, with focus on optimizing games for all platforms.
• Ability to adapt different art styles in designing & developing characters, backgrounds, marketing messages, win celebrations, and game symbols.
• Excellent knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Excellent knowledge of motion design software, such as Spine 2D and After Effects.
• Excellent understanding of logotypes and typography.
• An established commitment towards the research, play, and study of casino games to stay up-to-date with market trends and competition.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Highly organized, experienced in running multiple projects and delivering to tight deadlines.
• Experience working with project tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Leadership attitude and not afraid to get your hands dirty.
• Excellent teamwork skills and ability to adapt.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a high proficiency in the English language.

Desired:

• Currently holding a position of Creative Director or Art Director at an established casino games studio.
• Great understanding of casino games and real money gaming compliance, jurisdictions, trends, and regulatory bodies.
• Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and stay abreast of online casino game trends and developments/standards.
• Experience in using Jira and other project management tools.
• The role may initially be remote-based, and preference will be given for candidates who are able to relocate to Vancouver, Canada when our studio offices re-open.
• Preference will be given for candidates with experience in producing online real-money casino games.

Reference ID: CreativeDirector1

NOC Code:  0213

Salary Range:  CAD $110,000 – $120,000 DOE

Benefits:  15 vacation days per year

Hours of Work:  40 hours per week

Application deadline:  2022-06-01

Expected start date:  2022-06-15

Apply to: info[at]oldskoolstudios[.]com (Att’n: Hiring Manager)

Job Type:  Full-time, Permanent

Job Location:  200 – 120 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 2E8

Employer Name:  1198020 B.C. LTD. d/b/a Old Skool Studios

Employer Address:  200 – 120 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 2E8

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About Old Skool Studios

We create high quality online slot games for real-money markets. In 2019 we joined the Microgaming family as a first-party independent studio. We are a relatively small, tight-knit, passionate, and highly experienced team with an exciting content roadmap, and we’re always looking to grow our team.

Old Skool Studios is located in the historic Shipyards District of North Vancouver, with convenient access to Lonsdale Quay and transit.

Responsibilities:

• Manage performance of studio members on an ongoing basis and take effective steps to deal with non-performance.
• Liaise closely with all Studio Leads including Managing Director, Creative Director, Product Manager, Game Designer, Mathematician, and QA Manager to ensure effective collaboration.
• Develop technical aspects of the studio’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Use best practices to develop, oversee and maintain the Development roadmap to ensure it supports the needs of the Development, QA and Design teams.
• Liaise and collaborate with external game engine / service teams and other studios as needed to support initiatives, investigate issues and identify resolutions, and contribute to the studio games roadmap.
• Assist with the conceptualization and design of games.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield a strong competitive advantage.
• Advise the Head of Studio on all matters pertinent to the timely and cost-effective completion of software development projects.
• Ensure that all members of the development team are equipped with the requisite skill set required for both current and future projects by developing a training and career development plan for each individual.
• Collaboratively work with studio members to set performance goals and measures.
• Manage and prioritize development resource schedules, ensuring timely delivery on R&D projects, production milestones, and routine maintenance of live games as needed.
• Effectively resolve all escalated project risks.
• Effectively communicate and implement processes and procedures in the studio and with stakeholders.
• Proactively build effective working relationships with other team leads and both internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate with external parties to develop and implement methods and procedures for improving work tools.

Required:

• Ability to work on location in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related disciplines.
• A minimum of 10 years of game development and/or game development framework experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of development team lead experience.
• Solid knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming, MVC and other design principles.
• Strong proficiency in one or more of the following technologies: HTML5 (strongly preferred), C#, C++, Flash, Action Script 3.0.
• Demonstrated strength of experience with client-server integrations and serialization techniques.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in training, mentoring and coaching developers.
• Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, agile and iterative environment with emphasis on leading sprint planning and/or scrum management.
• Strong interpersonal and people management skills.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and providing specifications for other team members.
• Self-motivated, proactive and detail oriented.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English.

Desired:

• Experience leading software development teams in the production of high performing web-based slot games from conception to release.
• Demonstrated understanding of optimization methods for browser-based games to improve loading performance on Mobile devices.
• Familiarity with project tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Familiarity with Confluence.
• Familiarity with Git and feature branching approach.
• Open to challenges of learning new languages, technologies, frameworks and approaches to development.
• Keen to learn and demonstrate ability.

Reference ID:  DevelopmentManager2

NOC Code:  0213

Salary Range:  CAD $94,000 – $110,000 DOE

Benefits:  15 vacation days per year

Hours of Work:  40 hours per week

Application deadline:  2022-05-15

Expected start date:  2022-06-01

Send applications to: info[at]oldskoolstudios[.]com (Attention: Hiring Manager)

Job Type:  Full-time, Permanent

Job Location:  200 – 120 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 2E8

Employer Name:  1198020 B.C. LTD. d/b/a Old Skool Studios

Employer Address:  200 – 120 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC Canada V7M 2E8

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We’re looking for an outstanding Lead Game Artist with solid 2D Illustration skills to join our team, who shares our passion for creating top quality games. As a Game Artist, you’ll be developing game overall look including characters, backgrounds and logos. You will design and illustrate 2D game art for a wide range of game themes and have the creative freedom to direct the quality and designs of those games.

About Old Skool Studios

We create high quality online slot games for real-money markets. In 2019 we joined the Microgaming family as a first-party independent studio. We are a relatively small, tight-knit, passionate, and highly experienced team with an exciting content roadmap, and we’re always looking to grow our team.

Old Skool Studios is located in the historic Shipyards District of North Vancouver, with convenient access to Lonsdale Quay and transit.

Required:

• Outstanding 2D illustrations portfolio demonstrating excellent creative skills and diversity.
• Strong knowledge of art fundamentals (including composition, perspective, values, color theory, etc.)
• Strong abilities with creating appealing 2D characters, backgrounds, and rendering artwork with a great finish.
• Digital illustration skills with an advanced understanding of Photoshop and Illustrator.
• A strong communicator with the ability to clearly communicate conceptual thoughts and with an openness with constructive critique.
• The ability to adapt to established styles and deliver creative variations on them.
• Ability to work within a team and work collaboratively with colleagues in all disciplines.
• Experience working with animation graphics, sprite sheets, and animation asset optimization.
• High standards in your work.
• Ability to self-organize and stick to deadlines.
• Keen to learn and collaborate.
• Self-motivated.
• Fluent in English.

Desired:

• A technical degree in computer art.
• Demonstrated ability to draw in different art styles.
• Preferably prior experience working with game graphics, online HTML5 games, and game art optimization requirements.
• Knowledge of the real-money gaming industry, slot games, or other gambling games.
• Good understanding of Web browser game development.
• Experience with effects and animation tools such as Spine 2D, Spriter, After Effects, TweenJS, PixiJS, or other 2D tools.
• Logotype Design.
• 3D software is a plus.

Applications without a portfolio will not be reviewed. All Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada.

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