What does Aurora Feint do?
We are part game developer and part platform developer. With proven experience making Aurora Feint, the award winning series of social RPG iPhone puzzle games, we are now focused on developing the best social gaming platform for the iPhone: OpenFeint. Are you passionate about the gaming industry? Do you love iPhone games? Do you have experience with XBLA or PSN or social networks? Are you a passionate professional looking for an exciting start-up environment? We want to hear from you...
What is our culture like?
Laid back, fast paced, and fun! Are you:
- Flexible?: Our needs change on a daily even hourly basis. Ability to manage multiple projects and deal with ambiguity a must. Grace under pressure is a requirement here.
- A Doer and a Thinker?: Ability to roll up your sleeves and contribute to decision making is important. Having just one of these skills is not enough, so come self-motivated and maybe a little stubborn :)
- A Perfectionist?: You want to get it right and you work tirelessly to get there, multiple iterations don't put you off because you want to be proud of your work when it goes out the door.
If you answered yes to these questions we definitely want to hear from you! If you don't see a perfect match below, just email us.
Job Listings
Marketing Program Manager
Last Updated: July 28, 2010
Job Description:
As the Program Manager your primary responsibility will be to develop, execute, and report on marketing programs that help improve player engagement and create loyalty to the OpenFeint social gaming network. You will help build the OpenFeint player community through regular and effective communication (i.e., newsletters, Twitter campaigns, Facebook posts), innovative player contests, and live events. In addition, you will also evaluate the effectiveness of these programs through focused research and data driven analysis.
Job Qualifications
- 0-2 years demonstrated work experience (Preference given for marketing experience, with bonus points given for analytical background.)
- Excellent academic credentials (Bachelor's degree from top tier university and a 3.5+ GPA.)
- Demonstrated leadership skills (i.e., student organization involvement, military experience, volunteer work).
Other Desired Skills:
- A team player with experience working in a fast-paced, demanding, yet rewarding environment.
- Strong written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
Desired Attributes:
- Passion for Technology & Start-ups: Excitement for technology, games, and being a part of a dynamic industry and fast-moving company.
- Adaptability, Resourcefulness, and a Positive Attitude.
Developer Relations / Sales Associate
Last Updated: July 28, 2010
Job Description:
You will be responsible for identifying, outreaching to, and getting the best game developers onto the OpenFeint platform. Additionally, your job will be to play and review games! We will depend on you to grow developer relationships by understanding our developers business goals, building service-based relationships with them, and advocating on their behalf inside the company. Finally, you will work closely with the Marketing team to support and inform outreach programs.
Core Required Skills:
- 1-3 years demonstrated work experience (Preference given for sales, account management, business development experience)
- Excellent academic credentials (Bachelor's degree from top tier university and a solid GPA.)
- Demonstrated leadership skills, and a raw drive for accomplishing goals.
- Developer Acquisition: Actively source new developer accounts to outreach to and close from beginning to end.
- Account/Relationship Growth: Expand the integration of OpenFeint into new and existing games and grow the the number of opportunities for the developer to use new OpenFeint features and products.
Other Desired Skills:
- A team player with experience working in a fast-paced, demanding, yet rewarding environment
- Strong written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
- Games/Mobile Industry Knowledge: Acquire and command a comprehensive understanding of mobile and social games.
The successful candidate will have the following attributes:
- Proven Track Record: Have a successful career history in surpassing targets, closing accounts and growing revenue.
- Passion for Technology & Start-ups: Excitement for technology, games, and being a part of a dynamic industry and fast-moving company.
- Adaptability, Resourcefulness, and a Gitterdone Attitude.
Web Developer - Front-End
Last Updated: June 24, 2010
Job Description:
As an Aurora Feint web developer you will be responsible for the front-end development of our web properties and our other super-secret technologies that use web languages. You will work closely with the Engineering and Design teams to build and maintain web pages viewed by millions of players who may never know that it was you who did it all.
Required Skills:
- 5-7+ years experience writing clean, standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible HTML and CSS
- 3-5+ years experience using Javascript
- 1-2+ years using jQuery and/or Prototype javascript frameworks
- Familiarity with 960.gs or other CSS grid frameworks
- Staying up to date on emerging web technologies
Other Desired Skills:
- Experience taking a PSD file and slicing your own assets in Photoshop
- Strong hands-on experience developing dynamic sites (Rails, PHP, etc.)
- Writing asynchronous javascript and dynamically updating a page
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a fast paced environment
Web Developer - Back-End
Last Updated: June 24, 2010
Job Description:
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for server side development of OpenFeint features. You will work closely with the Engineering team to build features used by the iPhone client through our REST API. Client developers can depend on you to both deliver a feature on time and to constantly communicate your progress and how the feature will work.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples) and at least 2 years of RoR experience
- A team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
- Strong written and oral communication skills
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Experience scaling a Ruby on Rails project
- Active Open Source development experience
- Passion for games
Ruby on Rails Performance Guru
Last Updated: June 24, 2010
Job Description:
Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for scaling and optimization of the OpenFeint servers. You will work closely with the Engineering team to make sure all checked in code runs blazing fast. In addition, will front our communication with our server providers to make sure we have the best possible setup.
Core Required Skills:
- Expert with database concepts (schema normalization, optimization, and scaling)
- Expert Ruby on Rails with several delivered projects (show examples) and at least 3 years of RoR experience
- Team player with experience working in a group of skilled RoR programmers
- Experience scaling a RoR project to handle massive traffic
- Understanding of server hardware and configuration
Other Desired Skills:
- Thorough understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Familiarity with Scrum or Xp
- Active Open Source development experience
- Self-directed, motivated, and passionate
Sales Engineer
Last Updated: June 24, 2010
Job Description:
As an Aurora Feint Sales Engineer, you will be responsible for working with our player and developer network to better understand and troubleshoot the OpenFeint platform. In addition to a role as a platform evangelist to the developer community, you will operate cross-functionally with sales and engineering to contribute to the evolution of the OpenFeint platform by translating developer and player requests into appropriate product features.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with strategic partners to deliver best-in-class OpenFeint integrations
- Provide technical sales support for all OpenFeint developers and players, prioritizing, resolving, and escalating issues to engineering as necessary
- Create documentation to provide education and inspiration for the OpenFeint developer community
- Work with engineering and business development teams on product roadmaps to address developer and player support and integration issues
Requirements:
- Solid C++ programming skills
- Objective-C or Cocoa programming skills
- Understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Proficiency in SQL / MySQL
- At least 2 years experience working in a client-facing capacity.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- BA/BS degree preferred
Other Desired Skills:
- Game design experience
- Published technical writer
- Personal or professional experience building iPhone applications
Operations Guru
Last Updated: June 24, 2010
Job Description:
Are you an Operations jack-of-all-trades? Can you easily switch from providing amazing customer support to managing cross-functional teams in the development of customer-facing products? If so, we’re looking for you!
The Aurora Feint Operations Guru reports to the VP of Operations and works with sales, marketing, and engineering teams to affect positive changes in product and policy from concept to execution, from developing the product spec to pulling information from the database to measure performance.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for all OpenFeint developers and players, prioritizing and escalating issues to engineering as necessary
- Develop product performance reports pulled from our data repository and support queues
- Report and resolve inefficiencies in product, policy, and work flow
- Be the voice of the users and developers
Requirements:
- Minimum one year experience in written customer support
- Understanding of software engineering best practices (OOP, DRY, MVC, TDD, etc.)
- Proficiency in SQL / MySQL
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- BA/BS degree preferred
Other Desired Skills:
- C++, Objective-C or Cocoa programming skills
- Experience with HTML / CSS
- Product or project management experience
- Mobile technology support experience a plus
- Strong technology or gaming affiliation