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Job #1617497
Posted 12 Sep 2023

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1617497/Senior-Product-Marketing-Manager---Turn-10-Studios

Senior Product Marketing Manager - Turn 10 Studios

Overview

Forza is a gaming franchise that has come to represent a passion for cars, a community centered around competition and creativity, and the opportunity to connect and immerse players. Our vision is to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. This is a unique opportunity to serve as the product marketing lead, driving growth of our audience reach through various opportunistic and strategic engagements with existing partners and cultivating new opportunities.

In this role as a Senior Product Marketing Manager, we are seeking a creative, and collaborative with with the ability to define clear goals, develop thoughtful, creative marketing strategies that are grounded in a deep understanding of our community of players. This is a cross-functional role. You will partner closely with Studio teams at Turn 10 and Playground Games, as well as the broader Xbox marketing team, to build and manage integrated co-marketing campaigns for gaming communities across console, and Personal Computer (PC). You do not need to be a racing expert to succeed in this unique and fun role – though you may become one!

Responsibilities

  • Establish a vision for developing, launching, and managing strategic third-party co-marketing integrations with Forza titles on console and PC
  • Serve as the primary liaison representing product marketing managing the day-to-day relationships between Forza licensing and partnership teams, as well as Xbox Pop Culture & Lifestyle, and creative marketing teams
  • Drive growth and depth with relevant licensees and partners through clear communication, internal collaborations, and strategic development
  • Develop and execute a short- and long-term growth strategy informed by consumer insights, industry trends, retail intel, and competitive insights
  • Actively explore and execute on new opportunities across categories
  • Support Partnership and Licensing teams in their pitching, negotiation, and process with partners as needed while understanding their motivations and objectives to recommend the most effective integrations
  • Establish a position on the value of proposed integrations and provide ongoing metrics through execution and delivery
  • Partner with cross-functional marketing teams to build world-class creative and messaging to maximize the potential reach and impact of each partnership. Ensure all Studio marcom stakeholders are aligned to partner expectations and mandates.
  • Provide thought leadership to larger team on industry and best practices
  • Negotiate and review business terms of marketing related contracts when needed

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 5+ years experience in business
    • OR Master’s Degree in in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 3+ years experience in business
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience working with partnerships, and licensing, in a marketing capacity across global markets
  • 2+ years of experience directly closing negotiations across multiple deal structures and comfort with contractual language

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 8+ years experience in business
    • OR Master’s Degree in Marketing, Computer Science, Business or related field AND 6+ years experience in business
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to work well in a team environment with various internal organizations (product and creative development, marketing, legal, business development, retail sales)
  • Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously to deadlines
  • Creative problem-solving skills and high degree of entrepreneurial spirit
  • Embodies a “consumer first” mindset, while also designing strategies and tactics that meet business goals
  • Passion for gaming and entertainment
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Job #1622452
Posted 12 Sep 2023

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1622452/Associate-Manager%2C-Business-Strategy-and-Insights---Turn-10-Studios

Associate Manager, Business Strategy and Insights - Turn 10 Studios

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, creators of the industry-leading Forza racing franchise, is currently seeking a highly motivated individual Associate Business Strategy Manager with proficient organizational and analytical skills to help drive monetization and forecasting rhythms for the Forza Franchise. The Associate Manager will be an integral part of the Business Strategy and Insights team working on revenue strategy, SKU planning, global pricing, promotional planning, and population and revenue forecasting in conjunction with Game Development, Finance, Marketing, and Analytics. The position reports to the Revenue Strategy and Forecasting Lead in Redmond, WA.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS / MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Assist Lead to ensure health of the overall franchise ecosystem, driving population, engagement, and revenue goals while helping to define metrics for brand and business health.
  • Work with stakeholders to develop comprehensive and strategic business, sales, and marketing plans maximizing customer engagement and value through promotion and incentive-based programming.
  • Research, analyze, and make recommendations regarding current monetization trends and competitive activity to identify new product/program opportunities.
  • Prepare materials for monthly and quarterly business reviews with studio leadership.

MONETIZATION

  • Assist Lead to develop SKU plan proposals for product launches which evolve with live service operations.
  • Partner with game teams to drive revenue through in-game monetization models.
  • Support rhythms around merchandising optimizations, promotions, offers, and new opportunities.

DATA MODELING & ANALYSIS

  • Help design, update, and upgrade business models for existing and upcoming projects.
  • Contribute to the creation and evolution of metrics providing deeper understanding of player behavior and lifetime value.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s), marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, product marketing, sales, publishing and/or partner organization experience
    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company, entrepreneurship, management consulting).

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, product marketing, sales, publishing and/or partner organization experience
    • OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration or related field AND 3+ years marketing, strategy, business planning, consulting, banking, finance, economics, and/or partner organization experience
    • OR equivalent experience (e.g., scaling a business, incubation, driving change in a large company.
  • 2+ years experience in video games, entertainment, CPG, or related fields
  • Knowledge of video games and the video game industry
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Job #1622459
Posted 14 Sep 2023

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1622459/Community-Developer---Turn-10-Studios

Community Developer - Turn 10 Studios

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Community Developer to join our Community and Communications team. This person will play a critical role in working with development teams to surface suggestions and requests from our players for integration into development plans. This role provides you with an exciting opportunity to bring your experience advocating for, and communicating directly with, customers and development teams with a track record with successful titles in the video games industry.

As Turn 10 grows and evolves, your focus on building high-quality, customer-centric practices will help the studio expand into new territory, reaching more customers in ways not yet previously explored. We will highlight your unique capabilities and provide you with the right opportunities that best leverage your areas of passion. We value the perspective and experience you bring and promote collaboration, learning and growing with others.

Responsibilities

  • Advance your knowledge and experience with of our products and regularly play them so that you can fully understand and advocate for the best experience.
  • Help shape product roadmaps and game quality of life by using quantitative and qualitative data sources to distill community feedback and serve as the voice of the player to our development teams.
  • Build trust, influence, and processes with development teams to help them understand and prioritize the most impactful community requests.
  • Proactively and regularly articulate what you’re hearing players talk about, what the reactions are, and offer suggestions for how we can address their concerns.
  • Provide leadership to the Community & Communications team as the bridge to the development team- gather and distribute information on upcoming features, identify the most impactful ones, and work with others to develop plans to support their release.
  • Serve as the voice of the brand to players in community spaces, within our engagement guidelines.
  • Develop and share regular reporting with studio leadership tracking relevant Community & Communications Key Performance Indicators
  • Advise development teams to bring community interaction features directly into our games.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

  • 2+ years public relations, marketing, community management, social media management, or communications experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in the gaming industry

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • 7+ years public relations, marketing, community management, social media management, communications, or related experience
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Journalism, Communications, or related field AND 5+ years public relations, marketing, community management, social media management, communications, or related experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years gaming industry experience working on AAA live service titles.
  • Ability to analyze and draw conclusions from quantitative and qualitative data to make a recommendation.
  • Familiarity with technical troubleshooting.
  • Automotive enthusiast with a passion for racing games.
  • Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) proficiency.
  • Demonstrated use of inclusive behaviors.
    • Proactive and keen attention to detail.
    • Self-motivated team player with a positive attitude.
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Job # 1624598
Posted 18 Sep 2023

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1624598/Lead-Shader-Technical-Artist---Turn-10-Studios

Lead Shader Technical Artist - Turn 10 Studios

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise, has an exciting opportunity for a Lead Shader Technical Artist to join our studio. This role oversees the creation and management of shaders and materials to support our enormous library of high-quality game content for our cutting edge games.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with the Technical Art Director to develop a long-term strategy for the needs, resourcing, staffing of a material and shader team that fit within the business
  • Drives collaboration across multiple art disciplines for shader and material development
  • Plan, prioritize, organize, and evolve needs of multiple art discipline’s requests through collaboration with Art Direction, Engineering, and Production
  • Drives the development of the artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product’s visual style and encourage artistic evolution within the studio. This entails expanding methods to improve the production pipelines, tools, processes, and visual integrity
  • Actively advances skill set of self and other’s abilities through being intimately aware of industry trends and techniques, consistently evaluating competitive products, learning new software packages and traditional art methods.
  • Design, maintain, and evolve a hierarchical library of shaders and materials for our car and environment content
  • Author shaders and maintain stability and performance of material library
  • Partner with Outsource Management for expansion of vendor capabilities in materials and shaders
  • Partner with Tools teams to help drive world class shader and material application across ever-expanding opportunities of evolving tool sets and technologies

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 2+ years technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years experience using related software and packages (e.g., Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Creative Suite, SideFX Houdini, Zbrush, Substance Suite).

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 8+ years technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 6+ years technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years programming experience (e.g., Python, C#, C++, or equivalent languages)
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Job # 1624590
Posted 21 Sep 2023

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1624590/Senior-Game-Physics-Engineer---Turn-10-Studios

Senior Game Physics Engineer - Turn 10 Studios

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, makers of the award winning, billion-dollar Forza franchise, is searching for a Senior Game Physics Engineer to advance our world class racing simulation.

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 the architecture and implementation of stable, flexible physics systems that enhance the accuracy of our game and make our players feel as if they are driving our cars in real life

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-discipline peers to design vehicle physics systems that mimic the real world.
  • Investigate and optimize code to ensure that our physics and vehicle dynamics systems are operating within performance budgets.
  • Provide physics consulting and implementations for all features in the game.
  • Contribute to growth of your peers through code and architecture feedback.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering
    • OR equivalent experience
  • 3+ years experience working directly with physics code
  • 1+ year(s) experience working with rigid body physics simulations in shipping software
  • 1+ year(s) experience working with C++

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in games industry
  • 6+ years of professional C++ (or C#) development experience
  • 3D math skills
  • Ability to work in a collaborative environment with other disciplines.
  • Experience building vehicle dynamics systems
  • Love of games. The ideal candidate will have passion for our product and empathy for our players.
  • Passion for cars and racing
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Job #1628125
Posted 27 Sep 2023

Executive Business Administrator - Turn 10 Studios

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1628125/

Overview

The Corporate Vice President (CVP) leading the Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon, and Fable Studios, is looking for an organized, collaborative, detail-oriented Executive Business Administrator to support them in leading a global team.

This individual will thrive in a dynamic production environment, takes initiative, has a curiosity to learn, and can embrace a challenge with a positive attitude. As an Executive Business Administrator, you will work in close partnership with the Chief of Staff and the Business Administrative Support team to provide seamless support to the whole organization.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

  • Calendar Management

Provides strategic calendar management and time planning support for manager(s) (e.g., Senior Corporate Vice President [CVP], Executive Vice President [EVP]). Manages and owns calendar, meeting preparation, and logistics based on knowledge of manager and business needs. Uses executive and independent judgment with full knowledge of business context to identify and coordinate delegates, execute decisions around prioritization and maintain constant communication with manager and central staff. Leads and owns decision making processes in close partnership with peers and stakeholders (e.g., Chiefs of Staff, Business Managers, Human Resources) and external leaders/business support. Exercises a sense of priority and awareness for high impact meetings, and urgent business needs, and ensures follow-up. Proactively engages with leader and key stakeholders/business partners (e.g., Communications Team, Chiefs of Staff, Business Managers, Human Resources) to make decisions and cascade information as needed.

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication

Proactively drives communication and liaises between executives, central teams, and other business partners to share information and best practices that drive efficiency. Uses executive and independent judgment, discretion, business insights, and perspectives to direct and prepare staff to distribute information to their teams and/or supported leader. Communicates with external partners/audiences and third parties. Represents and acts as extension of manager’s/team’s brand and Microsoft’s core values.

  • Discipline Growth and Development

Provides leadership and actively seeks out and participates in the Business Support community. Mentors Business Support professionals. Onboards and trains new Business Support staff. Engages in career development and trainings. Identifies, aligns, and promotes growth opportunities for self and team. Shares best practices and insights. Driving the recruiting process for Business Support roles. Supports team building, networking opportunities, and works to uphold morale.

  • Event Coordination and Logistics

Provides strategic oversight into event vision and outcomes, while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Manages overall events, including promotion and goals, communication strategies and allocating resources to ensure best outcome. Develops workback schedule, promotion, and necessary checkpoints. Provides high-level guidance to address complex issues with meeting/event preparation and ensures problems are mitigated. Ensures remote teams are aware of events for consistency of experience regionally. Advises on post-event close out (e.g., tracking event results/attendance, distributing post-meeting materials), and provides direction to team members.

  • Leadership

Leads by example by demonstrating presence, encouraging others to raise their own standards of excellence, and setting a foundation for success. Assesses and adapts to changing situations and maintains professional composure. Proactively seeks feedback on performance, invests in training leadership opportunities, and maintains self-awareness.

  • Resource Management (Hardware/Supply Management, Purchase/Expense Management Financial Management)

Owns expense management for the executive office. Educates administrative team on Microsoft policy to ensure compliancy across team/division/organization and escalates issues as needed. Manages, influences, and communicates processes, policies, and procedures, leveraging understanding of the parts of the business and their inter-connection within Microsoft as a whole. Functions as interim approver for executive office. Partners with finance at a high level on all aspects of budgets, headcount and policies, including assisting with annual budget planning by consolidating team requests and prioritizing funding.

  • Rhythm of Business (ROB)

Collaborates on continual implementation and flexibility of the rhythm of business (ROB) in partnership with executive leader(s) and Chief of Staff, including fiscal-year calendar and executive meeting schedule (e.g., Human Resource [HR] cadence, fiscal cadence, Senior Leadership Team cadence, company-wide and/or employee resource group cadence). Prepares team for ROB cadence and helps to manage workloads across multiple ROBs/orchestration across multiple ROBs. Advises on best practices for developing a distribution plan for confidential internal and external communications in collaboration with Business Managers and/or Chief of Staff. Ensures team members follow ROB and map their planning to established cadences.

  • Space Management and Planning

Partners with the appropriate teams (e.g., Real Estate & Facilities, space planner owners, upper management) when complex space issues are escalated to the executive office. Manages executive office space, including design and technology needs.

  • Travel Management

Works with Executive Travel to coordinate travel arrangements (e.g., accommodations, transportation, security) for Executive Office. Creates detailed itineraries/agendas for daily activities by setting and managing travel expectations to maximize trip productivity. Manages and oversees all travel logistics and creates guidelines for visits to ensure leader is prepared (e.g., briefing leader, sharing information with countries). Acts as a stand-by resource and ensures availability for varying manager needs/time zones to address issues/escalations during business travel. Maintains availability and acts with urgency to address changes, issues, and escalations that arise during business travel. Drives proactive communication across stakeholders ahead of travel and communicates with domestic and international stakeholders to ensure the supported leader maximizes business trip outcomes. Manages and ensures required documents (e.g., visas, passports, immunization records) obtained for international travel. Manages and ensures compliance with US Travel Tax Tool. May accompany leaders on business trips (e.g., Inspire, Ready) to provide onsite support. Ensures compliance with US Travel Tax Tool.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years Administrative, Business Support, or customer service experience in an environment with an emphasis on scheduling meetings/events, travel management, and administration work for executive/upper level management.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field (e.g., Business Administration, Human Resources [HR], Marketing, Communications, Psychology, Sociology)
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience serving as mentor or direct/indirect (e.g., team leader) supervisor to others.
  • 4+ years experience in an Entertainment or Creative organization.
  • 5+ years experience reviewing and managing administrative budgets (e.g., for events, morale, travel, training).
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Job #1659513
Posted 5 Nov 2023

Principal Software Engineer - Turn 10 Studios

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1659513/

Overview

Turn 10 Studios is growing our ForzaTech team. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer that is passionate about low level game engines and game technologies. This role will help make the next entry in our award winning, billion-dollar Forza franchise.

As part of the ForzaTech engineering team, you will be critical in our mission to provide a truly next generation experience for our customers. You will advance our core engine technologies and lead in our future research of game development technologies. You will help to drive our plans and work items to optimize the player and game developer experience. You will work with ForzaTech leadership to help chart the course of our technology investments across our franchises.

Beyond helping us ship great titles at Turn 10, you will also join our global ForzaTech community by collaborating with our partners Playground Games, creators of Forza Horizon 5 and a new Fable title.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement multiplayer and online systems for Forza Motorsport and future titles
  • Work with leadership to define and technically lead internal applied research efforts
  • Be a partner and mentor to game engineers as they write new features
  • Work on various other engine and tool technologies that enable game teams to develop best in class games
  • Collaborate with fellow ForzaTech users Playground games, creators of Forza Horizon 5 and a new Fable title

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of professional C++ development experience
  • 7+ years of experience in games industry
  • Knowledge of game engine, online and multiplayer technologies
  • Experience with networking systems
  • Experience with dedicated multiplayer services
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Job #1660047
Posted 14 Nov 2023

Media Producer - Turn 10 Studios

Media Producer Turn 10 Studios | Microsoft Careers

Overview

At Turn 10 Studios, our vision is to grow Forza into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world. We are currently looking for a Media Producer to join our Media team and help deliver visually stunning & entertaining content to support that vision. In this position, you’ll play a key role in managing the creation of world-class videos, imagery & graphics for multi-platform titles such as Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon, as well as all other products & programs that make up the Forza franchise.

Media 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. As a Media Producer, you’ll work directly with incredible artists as well as partner with cross-discipline individuals to ensure that our content not only meets Forza quality standards but also fulfills all the necessary objectives & requirements to support game announcements & launches, live events, marketing campaigns and more!

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate day-to-day production schedules & tasks and organize & disseminate project information to the team
  • Facilitate on-time deliveries that achieve the project requirements while maintaining Forza quality standards
  • Communicate production status & project deliverable expectations to stakeholders
  • Identify risks to project milestones, formulate mitigation plans and facilitate the execution of alternative solutions as needed
  • Evaluate asset requests and balance resource allocations amongst priority assignments
  • Engage with cross-discipline teams at both Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games to assist with dependencies and related support
  • Assist in supervision of outsourced media asset creation, acting as a conduit for dependencies, reviews and other communications
  • Contribute to regular reporting of project execution as well as analytics for published media assets
  • Use inclusive behaviors; ensure all voices are heard, invite input from many perspectives, resolve disagreements, and show courage while exhibiting leadership

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 2+ years experience in production roles in gaming or entertainment industry, or other multi-disciplinary leadership
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience in development and shipping of at least one product release.
  • 2+ years of experience in leading a small to medium-sized creative teams through turnkey asset production
  • 2+ years of experience working with Excel, Wrike, Shotgun or other industry equivalent software for production management.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with project management for video production, game cinematics, CGI, or post-production, with a track record of exceptional performance
  • Experience at simultaneously managing a large volume of concurrent projects in an organized manner with attention to detail
  • Experience creating processes, collaborating and driving results with internal & external cross-discipline teams
  • 1+ year of experience as a Producer in game development, including milestone tracking and risk mitigation
  • 1+ year of experience managing outsourced work arrangements, including project kickoffs, reviews and deliverables
  • Experience working with data analytics, metrics tracking and KPI evaluation

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Job #1659513
Posted 22 Nov 2023

Vehicle Senior Artist - Turn 10 Studios

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1662970/

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise, has an exciting opportunity for a Vehicle Senior Artist to join our studio. The Vehicle Senior Artist is a key role for delivering car content at the standards of the Forza franchise. This will involve having proficient end-to-end knowledge of the production pipeline and bringing leadership qualities to bring the best out of our local and remote teams.

This person will have production experience shipping AAA titles, experience collaborating across multi-discipline teams, planning and managing work of others.

In addition, this person will possess current and proficient knowledge of the latest middleware, authoring packages and techniques, as well as experience working with outsourced content, and managing quality output of remote teams.

Responsibilities

  • Work with Vehicle Art Director in ideation and prioritization of visual, feature and authoring innovations
  • Work with tech teams to develop efficiency-enhancing production tools
  • R&D new processes and techniques to push innovation
  • Maintain production and quality standards of shared content
  • Document and disseminate authoring and QA specs and procedures for training and reference
  • Work with Vehicle Production manager to optimize procedures and specs for content share

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications or related art field AND 2+ years experience in art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience working with industry standard 2D and 3D packages (Photoshop, 3DS MAX, Maya, etc.)
  • 1+ year(s) experience shipping a AAA game title

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Certificate in Design, Fine Arts, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Communications or related art field AND 8+ years experience art design or a related art field working on computer games or entertainment
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience using related software and packages (e.g., Maya, 3DS Max, Photoshop/Adobe suite, Mental Ray, Substance Designer/Painter/Zbrush, SideFX Houdini, After Effects, Unity, Softimage)
    • OR equivalent software packages.
  • Experience shipping 2+ multiple projects or products end to end.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience with hard surface modeling
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Job #1665535
Posted 28 Nov 2023

Business Operations Program Manager - Turn 10 Studios

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1665535/

Overview
Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise, has an exciting opportunity for a Business Operations Program Manager.

At Turn 10, we are focused on being a place where everyone can do their best work. If you embrace a growth mindset, understand the complexities of change management, and want to blend strategic acumen with driving the execution of projects that materially impact results, this is a great opportunity to join a team motivated in shaping both the culture and operational future of Turn 10 Studios.

We are seeking a candidate for this position who is highly collaborative, strategic, and passionate about forging lasting relationships that allow us to make the business more efficient, help drive best practices, and to be part of making outstanding games. This position will report to the Chief of Staff and will work cross-functionally to support the different teams within the Turn 10 Studios organization.

Responsibilities

Business Program Planning and Design

  • Supports and contributes to developing and executing planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate processes and policies, as well as planning integration across the broader organization.
  • Ensures internal continuity of business operations during all times, including periods of change or special circumstances. Contributes to finding workable solutions to business problems.
  • Collaborates with others to understand overall business goals, objectives, and strategies, as well as short- and long-term business priorities. Understands and identifies current program risks, impact, and mitigation plans in collaboration with others.

Business Program Excellence and Execution

  • Collaborates with internal stakeholders and Microsoft teams to oversee the creation and implementation of operational execution plans. Ensures alignment for strategy initiatives across functions for each area of ownership. Identify best practices for strategy execution, leverage information, advocating for business cases, and presents cases and proposed solutions to Chief of Staff and the Studio’s Leadership Team.
  • Uses understanding of the organization’s strategy and deliverables for the upcoming year(s) to design budgets and create strategic operational plans. Contributes to identification of actions and development of programs that benefit the Studio’s operations and efficiency of processes. May manage complex budgets with significant negotiation. Works with Business team to coordinate future resources. Collaborate with leaders regarding resource management planning.
    Leverages knowledge of the Studio Leadership’s goals and approach to ensure team activities are aligned with the
  • Leadership Teams’ objectives. Supports the Chief of Staff in communicating key goals and priorities. Participates in and provides perspective and a point of view to the Chief of Staff and Studio leaders on specific areas within or external to the organization, and provides support for tactical and strategic business decisions of the Chief of Staff.

Business Program Management

  • Assists others who overlook a portfolio of projects including the project plan, timelines, milestones, financial management, performance metrics, and/or resource needs for programs. Communicates the program status to relevant stakeholders and holds them accountable for following the established schedule, and risk mitigation plans and processes, with minimal guidance.
  • Contributes to cross-team projects as needed to meet the changing business environment and manage business needs. Engages in well-defined projects/programs while executing aspects of projects/programs for larger areas, including work on strategic efforts that require hands-on experience which may be across multiple disciplines.

Business Program Evaluation and Improvement

  • Helps drive accountability for organization in executing core business activities, creating clarity in ambiguous situations to facilitate and drive prioritization and decision making for leaders across the organization. Begins to run rhythms regularly to identify what is working and what is not, and helps make improvements accordingly.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 2+ years work experience in program management, process management or process improvement OR equivalent experience
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Job #1667914
Posted 08 Dec 2023

Design Director - Turn 10 Studios

https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1667914/

Overview
Turn 10 Studios is looking for a Design Director to join our Forza Motorsport team. Forza Motorsport is one of the largest and most successful gaming franchises and home to a hugely engaged and passionate racing community. Come and join our supercharged team and help us shape the future of automotive entertainment.

The Design Director will be part of a collaborative team that will define the overall direction of Forza Motorsport. You will lead the strategy and direction of key gameplay features and experiences that will delight our players for years to come.

The role requires knowledge of design principles, creative processes, systemic design, and player motivations. Knowledge of and passion for motorsport, racing, vehicle dynamics, and car culture are also desired.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver genre leading features, experiences, and innovation in core gameplay that delight and engage our players.
  • Design and deliver systems and structures that build and cultivate a dynamic, healthy, and inclusive competitive racing community.
  • Collaborate, inspire, and lead a multi-disciplinary feature team with internal development resources.
  • Be a passionate, data driven advocate of the needs and motivations of the player, content creator, and viewer.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Associate’s Degree in Art, Game Design, or related field AND 6+ years relevant internship/work experience (e.g., game development and design, or systems design)
    • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Art, Game Design, or related field AND 6+ years related work experience (e.g., game development and design, or systems design)
    • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Art, Game Design, or related field AND 4+ years related work experience (e.g., game development and design, or systems design)
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience building successful game systems.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years working in a design capacity on at least 1 shipped AAA title.
  • Experience leading a design or feature team through all phases of development from concept to ship.
  • Comprehensive understanding of player psychology and gaming motivations.
  • Knowledge of physics and vehicle dynamics.
  • Experience in competitive or social multiplayer features.
  • Interest in shaping the future of automotive entertainment.
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Job #1668150
Posted 13 Dec 2023

Executive Producer - Turn 10 Studios

Executive Producer Turn 10 Studios | Microsoft Careers

Overview

Turn 10 Studios, the creators of the top selling and critically acclaimed Forza franchise, has an exciting opportunity for an Executive Producer to expand our core engine and systems tech as a part of our central ForzaTech team.

We are seeking a motivated individual to bring passion and expertise for an immediate and valuable impact. In managing our core engine investments and backlog, you will team up with ForzaTech and game team leadership to execute the strategies, process and contracts that enable us to deliver the systems and code that bring our games to life. You will also play a pivotal role bringing scale, capacity, and subject matter knowledge to our product teams. This is an end-to-end ownership role, defining and executing short term tactics while pushing for long term planning.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Project Management

  • Leverages knowledge of the end-to-end game production life cycle to ensure forward movement in a timely manner, while retaining quality within the product. Contributes to creating and spacing effective and achievable product milestones. Monitors and manages the progression of game production through milestones, identifying opportunities for plan or process improvement. Monitors, resolves, and reacts to missed milestones or goals within scope of work.

Strategy and Goals

  • Creates, leads, and executes against strategy with supporting team. Collaborates with discipline peers and stakeholders to align priorities and create clarity around processes. Cooperates and leads conversations with peers to ensure that priorities are aligned with goals and milestones, interdependent teams and processes, and conceptualizations of finalized products. Provides input on aligning stakeholders within or across teams to ensure successful collaboration. Contributes to partnerships with stakeholders across Xbox (e.g., marketing, platforming) to share technology and best practices and leverage strengths of Xbox broadly.

Team Leadership

  • Works with and leads cross-functional and/or core teams to create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success in the production of games. Leverages relationships with others to influence toward a common goal. Demonstrates effective team leadership skills. Leads cross-functional teams in the full cycle of game production for a particular game or product, and that their cross-functional team understands the full scope of roles and responsibilities. Leverages relationships with contributors and discipline peers from varied groups and teams to achieve alignment of priorities and successful game production. Understands and contributes to team well-being and sustainment.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree AND 6+ years experience in production roles in gaming or entertainment industry, or other multi-disciplinary leadership
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years experience in managing production budgets.
  • Experience in full development cycle of multiple product releases.
  • 5+ years of experience managing relationships with stakeholders, clients, and/or customers.
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Graduate Engineer - Forza Horizon - Contract | Playground Games

https://playground-games.com/careers/oTl2dfwd/

We are looking to hire several graduate programmers to join our Engineering department in 2024 and have roles across several teams.

YOU SHOULD HAVE:

  • Good C++ and/or C# skills
  • A degree in Games Programming, Computer Science or similar
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A passion for games

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and highly experienced AAA team. It is the perfect first step for a career in the games industry.

Playground Games is an equal opportunities studio and encourages candidates of all backgrounds to apply.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com

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Job #1669509
Posted 03 Jan 2024

Lead Procedural Technical Artist - Turn 10 Studios

Lead Procedural Technical Artist Turn 10 Studios | Microsoft Careers

Overview

Are you looking for an opportunity to help steer the direction of procedural content creation in AAA games? Do you have a passion for empowering content creators to unlock their creativity while removing the technical barriers that encumber the artistic process?

Then Turn10 would love to connect with you!

We are looking for a customer-focused Lead Procedural Technical Artist that will help guide and build the future of Turn10 Studios and Playground Games’ procedural ecosystem. As the Lead Procedural Technical Artist, you and your team will play a crucial role in the development of our next-generation procedural pipelines and tools that power our games. Collaborating closely with the art and programming teams, you will lead the creation and implementation of procedural systems to enhance the visual quality and efficiency of content creation processes.

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 will 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 are all gamers, and we want to build and deliver the next great AAA gaming experience. Do you?

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement advanced procedural content creation systems using SideFX Houdini to generate high-quality environments, textures, and assets that align with the project goals and technical constraints.
  • Collaborate with technical team and content teams to drive the integration of Houdini workflows into the content creation pipeline, ensuring seamless integration between artists and procedural tools that empower them to create performant, AAA content for all our titles.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize existing content creation pipelines through the integration of procedural techniques.
  • Provide guidance and support to technical artists, fostering knowledge-sharing and skill development.
  • Stay abreast of the latest advancements in procedural content creation, graphics technology, and game development to contribute to innovative solutions to the team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 4+ years technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Graphic Design, Digital Arts, Technical Art, Game Design, or related field AND 3+ years technical art or industry-related design experience
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years experience using related real-time engine (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine, Frostbite) or similar game engine technology.
  • 3+ years programming experience using related software packages (e.g, SideFX Houdini, Substance Suite, 3D Studio Max, Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder, Adobe Creative Suite, Zbrushs).
  • 3+ years experience using scripting languages (e.g., such as LUA, XML, MEL, PyMEL) or other visual scripting tools.

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