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Job #1295697
Posted 17 Mar 2022

Environment Artist - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise are seeking an Environment Artist with an exceptional eye for detail and a passion for creating stunning photorealistic environments, materials and props to join our team. In this role, you will use your talents to collaborate with our Environment Art team in the creation of large-scale environments and materials. You will help drive the quality set out by our Directors and Leads to meet the visual goals of the project.

Responsibilities

  • Create visually compelling content for environments in areas such as roads, buildings, props, and terrain
  • Create game ready physically based materials, textures and UV layouts
  • Set dressing of tracks and environments
  • Organize, create and maintain asset libraries for maximum visual impact and efficiency
  • Document processes for creation of environment art (roads, assets, textures, materials, etc.)
  • Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners
  • Review and provide feedback on outsourced content
  • Troubleshoot and problem solve production challenges through collaboration and creative solutions
  • Communicate updates and concerns to appropriate team members and managers

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Shipped AAA title on current generation hardware (Console or PC)
  • Proficient in the use of 3DS Max, Photoshop and Substance Painter/Designer
  • Portfolio with photorealistic environment art
  • Knowledge of physically based materials
  • Great communication, time management and organizational skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with external vendors
  • Strong composition and environmental storytelling ability
  • Photogrammetry experience a plus
  • Avid gamer who understands industry leading visuals and consumer expectations
  • Passion for art, innovation, and technology
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Job #1306023
Posted 30 Mar 2022

Sr. Business Manager - Turn 10 Studios

Microsoft’s Turn 10 Studios, the developer and creator of the Forza video game franchise on Xbox and PC including the award-winning Forza Motorsport titles and the Forza Horizon open world action racer, is looking for an experienced Sr Business Manager to join the Business Management team. At Turn 10, we create one of the most highly rated gaming franchises in the world by nurturing a world-class studio environment in which people can create products our customers love. Come play a key role on our team and help us achieve this ambitious goal as a member the of Business Management team.

The Business Management team is responsible for covering a wide range of business tasks in support of the Studio. The team is responsible for cost management, improving business processes, negotiating, and managing supplier and partner contracts and payments, managing publishing relationships, modeling new business opportunities, and setting budgets.

We are looking for a Sr Business Manager who is well-organized and possesses the ability to multi-task and bring solutions to daily business operations of the studio. The ideal candidate will bring their business experience to bear on business processes and reporting that keep the studio running effectively.

Responsibilities

Role Duties

This individual will assist on a range of business issues, monthly rhythm of business, reporting studio expenses, and assisting with the planning and reporting regarding Studio staff. Specific duties fulfilled by the role will include classifying and reporting expenses and budgets, tracking and reporting headcount, keeping an accurate record of studio staffing, and assisting with supplier invoices.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Producers and business partners to provide first-line business management and guidance.
  • Own the financial, expense and headcount reporting for the Product and identify/implement process improvements for more efficient reporting in partnership with Business Group leadership.
  • Assist with monthly business rhythms including results discussions, reviews, and reporting with studio leadership.
  • Partner across the Studio and Product teams on long range planning.
  • Assist with structuring contractual agreements to help the Product/Studio achieve their outsourced needs.
  • Work with greater business teams to design, update, and upgrade business models for existing and upcoming projects.
  • Collaborate with central finance team on monthly financial close, revenue & expense reporting, and headcount management reporting.
  • Partner with multi-functional support groups including A/P, royalty accounting, marketing, and finance on various operational aspects of supporting the Product.
  • Partner across Studio and Business Team to allow for seamless invoice and payment approvals.
  • Improve processes and reporting for the Business Team, that improve efficiency by working with the Business Management, Studio Operations, and Contractor Hub teams.

Qualifications

The candidate will be adept at managing operations related to Studio rhythm of business. The candidate must be able to communicate effectively across groups (legal, finance, business administration, production) to close issues as they arise.

Additionally, the candidate must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently, set priorities, and operate to strict deadlines. Candidates must possess mature and practical business judgment in the necessary areas, financial analysis skills, written and verbal communication skills, and problem-solving.

Required Skills:

  • 5 years’ experience required, preferably in financial analysis or business management / operations.
  • Experience managing P&Ls and costs within a world-class organization.
  • Must have experience with managing expenses, providing financial reporting, tracking headcount, and procurement processes.
  • Superior communication skills, including an ability to collaboratively empathize & partner with stakeholders directly and within a functional matrix.
  • Experience with financial modeling in a game development, technology, entertainment, and / or publishing business.
  • Ability to drive change and improve key business processes and financial models.
  • BA/BS in fields such as finance, business, or marketing.
  • Gaming and / or entertainment experience preferred, but not required.

Preferred Skills that the candidate would demonstrate:

  • Experience with Microsoft financial systems a plus.
  • High level of interpersonal skills.
  • Proven ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
  • Passion for games, though that is not required.
  • Experience supporting computer, video and/or online game software development, or other consumer entertainment products and services.
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Job #1308554
Posted 31 Mar 2022

Producer - Turn 10 Studios

At Turn 10 Studios, our vision is to continue to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. To do so, we are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, customer obsessed Producer to work with Forza Motorsport production and development leads to drive foundational studio projects into the future! We need a leader who understands the technology to build new systems and tools that will ensure the flawless execution of our Forza titles.

Ideal candidates will aim to serve the team and its customers as a grounded and organized leader. Using effective communication skills, collaborative problem-solving, and data-driven decision making, candidates will drive customer focus, team priorities, and track project progress.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with dev leads and understand the architecture and implementation of new systems and tools in our engine used across the studio
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and developers from the studio to create shared features and tools roadmaps
  • Manage the planning, scheduling, assigning, and tracking of detailed tasks and dependencies
  • Manage external development partner relationships
  • Manage well-defined features as they move through the development pipeline
  • Collaborate with project leads on milestone goals, that align with studio-wide development timelines
  • Identify, track, and resolve cross-team risks and dependencies with the help of team leads and stakeholders
  • Identify issues blocking such as process bottlenecks on your team and the studio, and work with others to ensure they are solved in a timely manner
  • Communicate sprint goals effectively, identify risks and clearly establish the plan of record
  • Maintain positive and collaborative customer relationships between your team and stakeholders

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Has three or more years of experience in a similar role
  • Proven ability to collaborate with cross discipline leads (Engineers, Artists, Producers, Quality teams etc.) to achieve production plans that work for all disciplines
  • Knowledge of agile development practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and project software tracking tools such as Azure DevOps, Shotgun, or industry equivalent
  • Excellent written and verbal skills: Listen and communicate with empathy
  • Strong communication and cross-team development skills
  • Able to identify and resolve conflicts with projects and coworkers in a clear, respectful, and efficient manner

Preferred Qualifications

  • Computer Science degree and project management training
  • Knowledge about at-least one game engine technology (rendering, tools, physics, animation, resource management, multiplayer, etc.)
  • Familiar with game development processes and disciplines
  • Understanding of gaming culture and what makes a high-quality game
  • Ready and willing to receive and address constructive feedback
  • Passion for games and a drive to create amazing AAA game Experiences
  • AAA game development experience
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Job #1308567
Posted 31 Mar 2022

Sound Designer - Turn 10 Studios

At Turn 10 Studios, our vision is to continue to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. The award-winning development team behind the successful Forza franchise are looking for a SOUND DESIGNER to join their in-house audio team that will help shape the soundscape of the next Forza Motorsport title. As a Sound Designer at Turn 10, you’ll work closely with the Audio Director and the rest of the Audio team in a hybrid workplace environment to develop class-leading interactive audio experiences that support the goals of the project. This role involves combining an understanding of sound design, middleware integration, audio signal flow, creative problem solving and execution in a team-centric environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design game-ready audio assets to a creative brief and technical specifications.
  • Integrate audio assets into the game using a combination of commercially available middleware and proprietary tools.
  • Balance quality with efficiency, while managing timely deliveries in a fast-paced production environment.
  • Able to take direction and incorporate feedback.

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in film/games or related field.
  • Experience with interactive audio integration with audio middleware.
  • Knowledge of designing sounds using a DAW.
  • Cultivated aesthetic sense and keen ear for detail.
  • Understanding of audio signal flow, DSP and terminology.
  • Self-motivated team player with excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to quickly learn new/proprietary software.

Preferred Skills and Experiences

  • Creative and technical skills in interactive game audio production using Fmod Studio.
  • Working experience with Unreal, Unity, or other game engines.
  • Automotive enthusiast with a passion for racing games.
  • Familiarity with the Forza universe, including Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon.
  • Broad knowledge in sound designing, editing and mixing using a DAW.
  • Familiarity with development kits and troubleshooting.
  • Understanding and knowledge of market trends and best practices.
  • Previous experience working with VO and dialogue systems.
  • Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
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Job #1308473
Posted 1 Apr 2022

Media Artist – Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza racing games’ franchise, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Media Artist to join the team. A Media Artist at Turn 10 will work as part of the team responsible for crafting assets for existing and new titles within the Forza franchise. Working closely with both internal and external teams the artist will create screen shots, videos and other assets. This person will play a critical role in helping the Forza Media team create world-class videos & imagery that support the franchise and generate brand awareness.

The ideal candidate brings experience from games, film, previz, postproduction, or visual FX creating world class visual assets. Experience creating complex camera moves in digital worlds is key, they should be comfortable with different software and easily moving between realtime and prerendered workflows. This work combines an understanding of visual narrative and edit flow, technical craft, creative problem solving, and execution in a team-centric environment.

Responsibilities

  • Demonstrated ability to create and capture high-quality in-game footage using propriety tools to craft marketing assets.
  • Create compelling trailers, imagery, cinematics, and gameplay videos with excellent pacing and exciting content using in-game and/or live-action footage.
  • Execute video edits from high level ideas, shot lists, storyboards, and pre-viz edits with a careful focus on camera framing, shot composition, and flow.
  • Establish continuity of the brand look and appeal while also creating fresh visuals that help increase brand awareness.
  • Balance quality with efficiency while managing timely deliveries in a fast-paced production environment.
  • Able to take direction and incorporate feedback.

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Knowledge of production process for creating custom video game cinematics.
  • Strong working experience creating cinematics and media assets in proprietary game engines.
  • A solid understanding of cinematography, video editing, photo editing, and lighting.
  • Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite (primarily Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop).
  • Cultivated aesthetic sense and keen eye for detail.
  • Strong understanding of cinematic language and camera terminology.
  • Self-motivated team player with excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to quickly learn new/proprietary software.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in film/games or related field.
  • Creative and technical skills as a 3D generalist, capable of scene building, camera work, animating, and visual effects
  • Broad knowledge in 3D production software such as 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D, or other similar 3D programs.
  • Post-production & motion graphics skills including, but not limited to, color grading, typography, transitions, rotoscoping, and compositing.
  • Familiarity with development kits and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with conventional cameras (DSLR, HD, Red, etc.).
  • Automotive enthusiast with a passion for racing games.
  • Understanding and knowledge of marketing trends and best practices.
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Job #1310676
Posted 5 Apr 2022

Senior Producer - Turn 10 Studios

At Turn 10 Studios, our vision is to continue to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. We are looking for an experienced Producer to join our Forza Motorsport team, working with our teams to deliver great user experiences for our players. As a Producer on the team, you’ll be working directly with our UI and UX leads, Environment Leads, and Art Directors to define and create the visual experience for the next Forza Motorsport.

Producers at Turn 10 are exceptional communicators, problem solvers and collaborators. We provide clarity and empower teams to make experiences we love. We are also pragmatists, process gurus, and schedule owners. A Producer is accountable for the delivery of game experiences that delight our customers. You’ll work with engineers, designers, and artists to bring high quality features to life. During development, a Producer uses metrics and good process to drive customer focus, team priorities, and coordinate deliverables across multiple disciplines to achieve team goals.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver great user experiences and visual content quality with your cross-discipline leads to direct your team through the various stages of development.
  • Apply a player-first mindset throughout the development process by reviewing player feedback and appropriately prioritizing requests in the product backlog.
  • Define processes for our creative areas that simplify coordination and decision making.
  • Utilize tools to maintain a source of truth for development and improve our creative processes across the Motorsport team.
  • Create and maintain the UI schedule and ensure the team is on track with their deliverables.
  • Keep the team aware of deliverables and goals through all phases of development.
  • Identify risks and drive the team towards successful resolution.
  • Be an ally to other teams by broadly communicating the roadmap and state of production.
  • Facilitate collaborative and effective communication between team members.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders outside the immediate development team including licensing, media, and community management.
  • Use inclusive behaviors – ensure all voices are heard, be curious, invite input from many perspectives, resolve disagreements, and be brave.

Qualifications

  • Proven ability to collaborate with cross discipline leads (Designers, Engineers, Artists, Producers, etc.) to achieve production plans that work for all disciplines (required).
  • Comprehension or experience with UI design processes (required).
  • Knowledge of agile development and project software tracking tools such as Azure DevOps, Shotgun, or industry equivalent (required).
  • Experience delivering features as a producer/product manager on a game to players and seeing their feedback (required).
  • Excellent written and verbal skills: Listen and communicate with empathy (required).
  • Understanding of gaming culture and what makes a high-quality game (preferred).
  • Strong analytical mind and experience working with project and customer datasets (preferred).
  • Experience with live operations and running games as a service (preferred).
  • Computer Science degree and project management training (preferred).
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Job #1314120
Posted 7 Apr 2022

Director of Quality - Turn 10 Studios

You will have the opportunity to leverage your technical background, quality focused mindset and collaborative attitude to establish the testing vision and direction for the Forza Motorsport team.

Responsibilities

When you are playing a game, do you take note of its breadth and scope? Can you look past this veneer and see the different components behind the scenes to make an experience like this come to life? Do you enjoy thinking about what it takes to make certain each part is executed flawlessly?

Then Turn 10, the studio behind the acclaimed Forza series would love to connect with you! We are looking for a passionate, quality obsessed, technical minded leader to join us as our Director of Quality.

As the leader of the quality space, you will be responsible for building and promoting a quality mindset across the organization, building out an organization that will work with, and support our internal teams to define processes, best practices, technology, and infrastructure as well as resourcing requirements to ensure the studio is equipped with a balanced and robust testing strategy. You and your team, along with our partner teams, together, will help deliver our next genre redefining title!

Qualifications

As Turn 10 grows, your work here will help the studio expand into new territory, reaching more customers, and reaching them in ways not yet previously explored. We will highlight your unique strengths and are committed to ensuring we provide you with the right opportunities and support to best leverage your areas of passion. We value the perspective and experience you bring and promote an autonomous workstyle. We all have a passion for delighting customers and want to build and deliver the next great AAA gaming experience. Do you?

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Playground Games Job Opening

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Screenshot Artist - Contract

We’re looking for a skilled and passionate screenshot artist to join our Forza Horizon team to showcase our cars and world in the game.

Working closely with our Design and Art teams, you’ll be responsible for taking in-game shots via our internal tools and software to populate our game with great shots of cars, which could also end up on social media.

Ideally you would have experience in creating in game screenshots and/or automotive photography to help craft world class visual assets, easily compose great shots of cars, and be comfortable with using proprietary technology.

SKILLS SUMMARY:

  • Understanding of photography, photo editing, and lighting.
  • Knowledge of production process for creating custom video game screen shots.
  • Cultivated aesthetic sense and keen eye for detail.
  • Ability to quickly learn new/proprietary software.
  • Able to take direction and incorporate feedback.
  • Self-motivated team player with excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
  • Balance quality with efficiency while managing timely deliveries in a fast-paced production environment.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

  • Automotive enthusiast with a passion for racing games.
  • Familiar with Forza Photo Mode.
  • Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop & Bridge).
  • Experience with conventional cameras (DSLR, HD, Red, etc.).
  • Working experience with Unreal, Unity, or other game engines.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the world’s most exciting games studios, using cutting edge technology to create world class games, within a strong, collaborative team.

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Job #1320403
Posted 13 Apr 2022

Senior Tools Engineer - Turn 10 Studios

We are looking for an enthusiastic, customer obsessed tools engineer to join us at Turn 10 Studios as part of the Xbox Team. As part of the Production Technology team, you will help build the technology that will empower our artists to build the virtual world that will set the standard for next-generation graphical beauty. You will have the opportunity to leverage your creativity, customer empathy, interpersonal skills and technical expertise to help define, create and build the workflows that will best harness the artistic capabilities of our content creators. You will be given the freedom and independence to drive large technological initiatives that take advantage of your organizational skills, exceptional ability to collaborate with others, and knack for fostering great relationships with partner teams.

Responsibilities

You will partner with world class engineering and creative talent to help build the tech that will define a new generation of graphical beauty. In this role, you will be empowered to own vast areas of our technology base to not just drive and execute the implementation but own the strategic planning and vision of our roadmap.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Professional programming background in C#, SQL and scripting languages
  • Strong grasp of UI/UX design principles (MVVM)
  • Experience building proprietary game engines and/or customizing out of the box game engines such as Unreal Engine, Unity, etc.
  • Experience with shipping at least one professional game title
  • 3+ years of professional gaming tools development experience
  • Rock solid understanding of software engineering best practices
  • Strong communication/collaboration skills
  • Passion for games and a “customer-obsessed” attitude

Nice to Have

  • Bachelor of Math/Computer Science
  • Experience with complex games systems (animation, graphics, game engine, etc.)
  • Experience using 3D editors and applications
  • Professional C++ experience
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Job #1320615
Posted 14 Apr 2022

Environment Art - Outsourcing Manager - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise are seeking an experienced Senior Environment Outsourcing Artist with an eye for detail and a passion for creating stunning photorealistic environments to join our team. In this role, you will use your talents to collaborate with our external art teams in the creation of large-scale environments and game-ready assets. You will help drive quality and accountability of external production to meet the visual goals of the project. The ideal candidate has a strong artistic background and can give precise feedback, directing external artists to successfully meet internal standards and collaborate to solve production challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal Environment Team, Art Leadership and Production to understand and communicate the visual goals of the project externally and maintain the consistency of this vision with outside vendors and teams
  • Assist internal and external PMs in the creation and management of external art schedules and resource plans
  • Own the quality control over all incoming art assets, providing detailed feedback and approvals to the vendor in order to deliver assets that meet the standards and needs of the project
  • Maintain asset tracking and provide visual and technical feedback on assets throughout the stages of production
  • Clearly communicate production challenges and provide guidance to external teams
  • Create asset specs and documentation detailing best practices for external art production based on project needs
  • Identify improvements in art pipelines to improve external vendor quality and streamline integration
  • Collaborate and partner with internal artists to validate art asset delivery and provide production support

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience with at least 1 shipped title as Outsource Manager on console or PC
  • Must have experience with outsourcing and high volume art production techniques
  • A strong visual and technical understanding of 3D modeling, texturing, and level creation
  • A portfolio showing high quality realistic models and textures, or the ability to demonstrate effective direction and feedback to achieve high quality realistic assets
  • Strong communication and time management skills

Nice to Have

  • Proficiency with 3DSMax and/or equivalent software
  • An eagerness to learn and teach new tools and processes
  • Experience shipping title(s) as Art Director
  • Previous direct people management experience
  • Experience with ShotGrid or similar asset tracking software
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Job #1295691
Posted 18 Apr 2022

Sr. Manager- Business, Strategy and Insights - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, creators of the industry leading Forza racing franchise, is currently seeking a talented, highly-motivated, passionate, and experienced Sr. Manager to join the Business, Strategy and Insights team to drive the rhythms around business planning, customer acquisition and monetization for the Forza Franchise. The role will be an integral part of the team, working on planning franchise and portfolio strategy, brand management, merchandizing, advocate for the worldwide consumer and collaborate on revenue and Monthly Average Users management globally in conjunction with our Game Development, Customer and Content, Finance, Partnerships, Licensing and Business Development teams. The position reports to the Director of Business, Strategy and Insights in Redmond, WA.

This position will support and lead the business by: Partnering with the Studio Leads and leading and innovating the engagement of our players and the customer acquisition, retention and reacquisition process with input from the leadership team. Researching, analyzing and making recommendations regarding current market trends to identify new product/market opportunities, innovations in lifecycle engagement, streaming and business intelligence activity.

The role calls for strong organizational, communication and decision-making skills as it will be regularly collaborating with business partners, third party partners, licensors, and licensees. The incumbent is also responsible for working with internal stakeholders guiding investments and setting priorities on go-to-market plans, driving P&L modeling and SWOT analysis. The role will have regular contact with international business partners.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions / Major Responsibilities:

  • Partner with the leadership on all or part of the product development process beyond specification, ensuring that products and programs meet business goals, consumer needs are met, and that licensed products meet our requirements, performance and quality expectations, and business goals.
  • Makes product trade-off decisions related to time, cost, quality.
  • Supervises business analysis, community/game moderation, acquisition score cards and CPI analytics.
  • Writes comprehensive and strategic business plans especially around maximizing customer value through promotion and incentive-based programming.
  • Works with business management and business intelligence to help form comprehensive, actionable BI queries and plans
  • Researches, analyzes and makes recommendations regarding current market trends and competitive activity to identify new product/program opportunities.
  • Acts as liaison with development, publishing, franchise management, and licensed business partners.
  • Work with team supporting the creation of marketing and promotional content that is delivered directly into a digital product or website.
  • Drives build vs. buy and license vs. self-publish decisions.
  • Structures and negotiates business deals and contractual terms.
  • Advance the logic, cadence, and relevance of triggered messaging to customers based on their account and gameplay activities, leveraging in-client play patterns with out-of-client messaging.
  • Prioritize and assist product development in delivering compelling user experiences throughout the user lifecycle, focusing on acquisition, conversion, retention, and re-acquisition.
  • Ensure that product, features and overall marketing efforts were in-line and that revenue goals were met.
  • Grow the business by leading its regional & global expansion across a wide range of potential new features, services, and offerings.
  • Manage revenue and recommend/implement key decisions on quality, cost, and timing for marketing programs and product under parameters set by leadership

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:

  • P&L forecasting & management for multiple products
  • Assist with monthly business rhythms including results discussions, reviews, and reporting with studio leadership.
  • Works with finance on viability for new contracts/products and creates P&L forecasting for new ventures.
  • Partner with Producers and business partners to provide first-line business management and guidance.
  • Collaborate with central finance team on monthly financial close, revenue & expense reporting, and headcount management
  • Budget, forecast and headcount management
  • Partner with contract and finance team, assisting content teams with securing outsourced resources.

MONETIZATION

  • Provide strategic and tactical leadership to drive revenue through in-game monetization models.
  • Determine and define merchandising optimizations, promotions, offers, and new opportunities.

DATA MODELING & ANALYSIS

  • Work with greater business teams to design, update, and upgrade business models for existing and upcoming projects.
  • Help change, create, monitor and affect basis/metrics for deeper understanding of player behavior focused on, but not limited to player churn, average revenue per user & per paying user (ARPU & ARPPU), lifetime value (LTV), advanced demographic study, player segmentation, social mapping, and more.

ADDITIONAL

  • Provide guidance to internal teams who tactically execute Merchandising, service and feature development plans.
  • Evaluate current market trends and competitive activity; report on key findings.
  • Occasional travel required.

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

  • MUST have Digital Gaming experience.
  • Knowledge of video games and 2+ years experience managing a digital IP, including extensive experience with virtual economies and managing evergreen consumer engagement a plus
  • Demonstrated experience and ability at driving, reporting, and managing project and rhythms across multiple teams of stakeholders
  • 5+ years progressive business/brand management experience required.
  • Digital commerce experience required.
  • Loyalty marketing experience preferred
  • Experience working on a global brand required, management preferred
  • Other product marketing and/or publishing experience preferred
  • International experience a plus

Education and Training:

  • Bachelors degree in Economics, Statistics, Business or Marketing, or related experience, required.
  • MBA strongly preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Strong presentation skills required
  • Ability to set strategy and vision based on deep, insightful consumer understanding
  • Strong planning and organizational skills; ability to juggle and manage multiple priorities under tight project deadlines required.
  • Intellectually curious and able to ask the right questions
  • Proven ability to lead diverse groups of people to achieve desired results
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Job #1321386
Posted 19 Apr 2022

Technical Artist – Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Artist to work alongside the team responsible for the top-selling and critically acclaimed Forza Motorsport franchise. This role involves supporting the art team with our production toolset and assisting in development of technical content creation methods to efficiently achieve high quality game content for our cutting edge games. This person is responsible for providing production tools and technical support to Artists in the following areas: environment art workflow, PBR materials, scripting, game content pipeline design and maintenance.

Turn 10 Studios is located in Redmond (Washington), just outside of Seattle. The Seattle area is a major hub for the tech and gaming industries. With beautiful mountain ranges, diverse wildlife, great hiking/biking trails, and a thriving arts culture, Seattle offers a variety of options to enjoy your life outside of work.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and triage artist issues with tools and art creation workflow
  • Work with Engine, Tools and Pipeline teams to prioritize and develop tools/scripts/plugins to streamline art processes, workflows and pipelines
  • Author technical environment art content in a stable and performant manner
  • Prototype new techniques to facilitate more efficient content production
  • Strive to maximize art production performance and predictability

Qualifications

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphic Arts, Art or a related field.
  • Computer programming/scripting experience.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more major 3D animation packages, 3DS Max preferred.
  • Understanding of 3D graphics principles and procedures
  • Experience with next-generation content creation techniques
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Work well under deadlines and multi-tasks
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Job #1327109
Posted 22 Apr 2022

Senior Software Design Engineer Lead – Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, makers of the award winning, billion-dollar Forza franchise, is searching for a lead engineer to help deliver a best-in-class Windows experience of the next game in the Forza Motorsport franchise.

You will lead a small external team of engineers to deliver and maintain all of the Windows-specific areas of the game. You will also be the voice of PC gaming inside the studio, helping us to reach PC gamers and deliver a game that will delight them.

Responsibilities

  • Cost and plan deliverables for the external team
  • Guide the team and review their code to ensure that we continue to build a strong and stable codebase
  • Work closely with the game’s architect
  • Be the voice of Windows gaming quality inside the studio
  • Determine Windows hardware specs and performance targets
  • Work with external hardware vendors, such as GPU manufacturers, to ensure that customers using their hardware will have the best possible experience

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional C++ development experience
  • Development experience with PC gaming
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Ability to work with other teams as well as other disciplines

Preferred Qualifications

  • Have shipped at least one AAA game for Windows
  • Prior experience leading other engineers
  • 3+ years of experience in games industry
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Job #1333811
Posted 3 May 2022

Software Engineering Lead

Xbox Studios Quality is looking for a Senior Quality Engineer with a growth mindset to help run the quality efforts across broad portions of T10. In this role you will be accountable for partnering with the Xbox Studios Quality organization and T10 Studios focusing on team building and day-to-day efforts, including the planning and execution on modern and innovative quality strategies. You will interact with multiple disciplines on feature teams to help shape the quality of the product. Additionally, you will leverage your background in software quality and cross-group collaboration to increase team efficiency, influence feature quality strategies, and to evolve our culture of quality with enhanced processes and technology. Additionally, you will leverage your background in software quality and cross-group collaboration to increase team efficiency, influence feature strategies, and evolve our culture of quality.

As a member of Xbox Studios Quality, you will also be part of a larger community of Quality Analysts and Engineers, Software Engineers, and Data Scientists supporting quality for world class products across Xbox Game Studios.

Responsibilities

• Own and help improve quality strategies for key features and functionality in the Forza franchise.
• Coach and mentor team members on career development and software testing methodologies.
• Use your experience to provide ideas, suggestions, and feedback to the team to help grow its capabilities.
• Improve efficiency of the team and accelerate test coverage with automation.
• Monitor, summarize, and communicate the quality of the product, state of quality efforts, and team plans and strategies to project leadership, including through formal presentations.
• Anticipate team needs 6+ months into the future and coordinate team planning accordingly.
• Coordinate priorities across manual testing, data analysis, and software development teams to increase the immediate impact of shared deliverables.
• Help build and foster a Quality-first culture for our team and our partners.
• Proactively works to resolve issues while keeping the team informed

Qualifications

1.Have you shipped software before
2.Have you had direct reports before
3. Do you have any knowledge or experience with video games?, if so what types of games are you familiar with?

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Job #1338341
Posted 9 May 2022

Technical Program Manager - Turn 10 Studios

At Turn 10 Studios, our vision is to continue to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. To do so, we are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, customer obsessed Producer to work with Forza Motorsport production and development leads to drive foundational studio projects into the future! We need a leader who understands the technology to build new systems and tools that will ensure the flawless execution of our Forza titles.

Ideal candidates will aim to serve the team and its customers as a grounded and organized leader. Using effective communication skills, collaborative problem-solving, and data-driven decision making, candidates will drive customer focus, team priorities, and track project progress.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with dev leads and understand the architecture and implementation of new systems and tools in our engine used across the studio
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and developers from the studio to create shared features and tools roadmaps
  • Manage the planning, scheduling, assigning, and tracking of detailed tasks and dependencies
  • Manage external development partner relationships
  • Manage well-defined features as they move through the development pipeline
  • Collaborate with project leads on milestone goals, that align with studio-wide development timelines
  • Identify, track, and resolve cross-team risks and dependencies with the help of team leads and stakeholders
  • Identify issues blocking such as process bottlenecks on your team and the studio, and work with others to ensure they are solved in a timely manner
  • Communicate sprint goals effectively, identify risks and clearly establish the plan of record
  • Maintain positive and collaborative customer relationships between your team and stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Has three or more years of experience in a similar role
  • Proven ability to collaborate with cross discipline leads (Engineers, Artists, Producers, Quality teams etc.) to achieve production plans that work for all disciplines
  • Knowledge of agile development practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) and project software tracking tools such as Azure DevOps, Shotgun, or industry equivalent
  • Excellent written and verbal skills: Listen and communicate with empathy
  • Strong communication and cross-team development skills
  • Able to identify and resolve conflicts with projects and coworkers in a clear, respectful, and efficient manner

Preferred Qualifications

  • Computer Science degree and project management training
  • Knowledge about at-least one game engine technology (rendering, tools, physics, animation, resource management, multiplayer, etc.)
  • Familiar with game development processes and disciplines
  • Understanding of gaming culture and what makes a high-quality game
  • Ready and willing to receive and address constructive feedback
  • Passion for games and a drive to create amazing AAA game Experiences
  • AAA game development experience
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Job #1344213
Posted 17 May 2022

Technical Artist – Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Artist to work alongside the team responsible for the top-selling and critically acclaimed Forza Motorsport franchise. This role involves supporting the art team with our production toolset and assisting in development of technical content creation methods to efficiently achieve high quality game content for our cutting edge games. This person is responsible for providing production tools and technical support to Artists in the following areas: environment art workflow, PBR materials, scripting, game content pipeline design and maintenance.

Turn 10 Studios is located in Redmond (Washington), just outside of Seattle. The Seattle area is a major hub for the tech and gaming industries. With beautiful mountain ranges, diverse wildlife, great hiking/biking trails, and a thriving arts culture, Seattle offers a variety of options to enjoy your life outside of work.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot and triage artist issues with tools and art creation workflow
  • Work with Engine, Tools and Pipeline teams to prioritize and develop tools/scripts/plugins to streamline art processes, workflows and pipelines
  • Author technical environment art content in a stable and performant manner
  • Prototype new techniques to facilitate more efficient content production
  • Strive to maximize art production performance and predictability

Qualifications

  • BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphic Arts, Art or a related field.
  • Computer programming/scripting experience.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more major 3D animation packages, 3DS Max preferred.
  • Understanding of 3D graphics principles and procedures
  • Experience with next-generation content creation techniques
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Work well under deadlines and multi-tasks
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Job #1345041
Posted 17 May 2022

Sr Program Manager – Community Ops - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the award-winning Forza franchise, have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Program Manager to join our Community team. On the Forza Community Team, our mission is to pair genre-defining game experiences with an entertaining, accessible, and inclusive global community that brings generations of new fans to the Forza community.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for driving critical programs supporting the quality of life for our players, implementing plans to ensure that Forza is a safe and fair place to play, that we are able to address issues our players are facing, and that we are informing and caring for their experience every step of the way. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to have a strong impact on a key first-party franchise to the Xbox and Xbox Game Pass ecosystems.

Turn 10 offers a unique work environment that is innovative and electric, and at the same time, open and accepting. We love what we do and are committed to building and delivering the next great AAA gaming experience. Come join us and let’s change the world of racing games together!

Responsibilities

  • Defines strategy for and maintains top quality mechanisms for issue detection to make it easier for players to get help for issues and easier for game teams to triage them
  • Partners with the Community, Social, and Comms teams to define franchise community standards and processes in support of a safe, friendly, welcoming, vibrant community
  • Advises product teams on implementation of in-game reporting mechanisms and partners with services engineering team to scope, identify, and implement them
  • Partners with teams outside Turn 10, aligning standards of implementation to gaming best practices
  • Works to define internal communication & resolution processes with game teams
  • Partners with community and social teams to develop processes for timely communications about known issues, game updates, and fixes
  • Tracks performance with regular reporting and advises game teams on which issues to prioritize for the greatest impact.
  • Manages relationship with, provide standards and expectations for, and ensures high-quality execution from external vendor teams
  • Makes plans for future needs based on stakeholder input and business requirements

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • 4+ years of professional program management experience supporting a high-profile consumer brand
  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and in writing
  • Demonstrated use of inclusive behaviors. Ensure all voices are heard, be curious, and invite input from many perspectives
  • Experience supervising and managing external/outsourced vendors
  • Passion for providing an excellent Forza player experience in all touchpoints
  • Proactive and keen attention to detail with a positive attitude
  • Growth mindset with a passion for experimenting, analyzing, learning, and improving
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 10+ years of professional experience supporting a high-profile consumer brand
  • Automotive enthusiast with a passion for racing games
  • Game development / game studio experience
  • Familiarity with technical troubleshooting
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Job #1345353
Posted 18 May 2022

Software Engineer 2 - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, makers of the award winning, billion-dollar Forza franchise, is searching for a generalist engineer to help build our moment-to-moment gameplay experiences that delight our customers for the next game in the Forza Motorsport franchise.

You will be joining a small multi-discipline team of talented people that work together to build features that delight our customers. You will drive architecture and implementation of stable, flexible gameplay systems that are built for expansion and realize our design vision.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-discipline peers to excite our players with new ways to play our game.
  • Implement gameplay systems that are maintainable and allow for quick iteration by design and content.
  • Reduce technical debt in our gameplay system as we build out our feature set.
  • Contribute to growth of your peers through code and architecture feedback.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional C++ development experience
  • Ability to work in a collaborative environment with other disciplines. Good communication skills are a must.
  • Love of games. The ideal candidate will have passion for our product and empathy for our players.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in games industry
  • Experience delivering user facing features with high usability.
  • Experience with Networking, AI, Physics, Camera, or other Gameplay systems
  • Passion for cars and racing
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Job #1345356
Posted 18 May 2022

Desktop Support Technician - Turn 10 Studios

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Corporate Technology Support Specialist to join our team at Turn 10 Studios. An ideal candidate will have some exposure to a wide range of IT hardware, software, and general knowledge. In this role, you will support a game studio as part of the Operations team working on the Forza Motorsport franchise. If you are eager to strengthen your capabilities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

  • Monitor incoming WFH VPN/RDP connection issues and respond accordingly
  • Deploy workstation, devkit and display hardware and help configure for new employees
  • Coordinate shipping of hardware to out of state employees
  • Onboard new hires, help setting up accounts and configuring access to resources
  • Arrange and support electronics recycling appointments with local team and MS PCR teams
  • Support training and scheduling environment for YearUP internship program participants
  • Maintain up to date knowledge of home networking infrastructure to provide diagnostic and repair support to WFH users
  • Maintain up to date industry knowledge of workstation hardware (CPU/GPU/MOBO) to keep with generational upgrade changes/design
  • Diagnostics and general support for managed device services
  • Office infrastructure support; network, power and facilities requests & scheduling
  • Monitor environmental power concerns and respond accordingly during events
  • Work with team leadership to plan upgrades and waterfall deployment
  • Work closely with Turn 10 Business Admins on space management and special event setup/breakdown

Qualifications

Qualifications and Skills

  • 4-5 years of experience directly in a customer support role troubleshooting end user systems and services
  • Strong understanding of Microsoft desktop OS products
  • Strong understanding of Microsoft Office products
  • Outstanding communication and customer service skills
  • Excellent problem resolution and analytical skills
  • Ability to learn quickly in fast-paced environment

Pluses

  • Scripting language experience - PowerShell, Bash, etc.
  • Experience with core IT infrastructure or AD administration
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Job #1352828
Posted 26 May 2022

Vehicle Artist - Turn 10 Studios

Turn 10 Studios, creators of the hit Forza Motorsport franchise, and a division of XBOX Game Studios, is looking for an experienced QA Artist to join the Motorsport Cars team. Turn 10 Studios is the producer of two successful franchises and continues to build on that success. The Studio shows their passion through their great products and welcomes the support from new team members.

Turn 10 Studios is located in Redmond (Washington), just outside of Seattle. The Seattle area is a major hub for the tech and gaming industries. With beautiful mountain ranges, diverse wildlife, great hiking/biking trails, and a thriving arts culture, Seattle offers a variety of options to enjoy your life outside of work.

Responsibilities

This role will cover a range of duties from learning and executing on current production processes to working with art leads and director in prototyping pieces, solving content issues and investigating new tools in the pursuit of driving industry leading car content. The right candidate will have a strong knowledge of video game art and hard surface authoring skills. In addition, the right candidate will be capable of assimilating new software packages and applying new learnings to existing processes.

  • Gain proficiency in middleware, both industry standard and ramping on proprietary packages
  • Bring expertise in car content production to troubleshoot and bug fix content issues
  • Scratch-building of high to mid poly car assets, modeling, UV Mapping, texture and material authoring
  • Handling of CAD data and translation