Careers
Company Overview
Maslow Six Entertainment, Inc. is a game developer with a keen focus on next generation casual and social games. Maslow’s compelling game designs and strategic plans are based on a growing synthesis of some of the recognized top minds in the business of designing, building, marketing and selling MMO and mobile social and casual games. Maslow’s founders pursue a rigorous strategy of acquiring the best talent for the company; not only future full-time employees but every key person that can impact our venture and its success. Our growing team of employees, sub-contractors, service providers, and advisors already contains individuals known globally for their leadership, experience, and inventions in this industry. The Maslow Six team has a number of opportunities for the right extremely talented and highly motivated people.
Job Listings
Maslow Six is currently looking for enthusiastic and talented people with a passion for online gaming to fill the following positions:
Administrative
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Virtual Economist & Monetization Manager
San Francisco
Responsibilities:
- Develop and document business models (including monetization methods and in-game economies) to drive revenue with optimal consumer experience
- Collaborate design and development team members to implement economic and monetization models
- Work closely with designers and live teams to establish and maintain stability of virtual economies
- Provide constructive qualitative feedback in an effort to continually improve gamer experiences
- Provide on-going analysis of and improvement methods for multiple virtual economies
- Identify new opportunities for innovative monetization methods and design implementation methods for current and new games
- Lead design of virtual and real goods merchandising strategies
- Lead development of strategies to increase player conversion, in-game spending and retention while maintaining player immersion
- Lead customer behavioral analysis to identify and evaluate opportunities and methods to increase ARPU
- Monitor industry trends regarding monetization, virtual economies and currencies and communicate relevant developments to design teams
- Monitor real time and aggregate data and report on performance of games. Provide data-driven recommendations to design and live teams for optimization
Qualifications:
- At least 4 years of relevant experience in online games and virtual economies
- Bachelors degree with a focus on business, economics, math or related quantitative discipline required; MBA/MS preferred
- Posses strong analytical skills, complimented with solid knowledge of game design and sound business acumen
- Demonstrable understanding of virtual economies and mechanics of social gaming leading to user acquisition models and costs, revenue generation, and user retention
- Creative thinker who can drive new initiatives
- Experience with virtual economies, dynamic currencies (including earned and purchased), and proven results working with varied approaches to monetization. This position will work closely with finance, marketing, and product development.
- Comprehensive understanding of micro-transaction business models and virtual goods consumption
- Experience with using statistical data to make business decisions
- Outstanding analytical skills, strong experience interpreting results and drawing conclusions
- Must be a strategic thinker with strong organizational and analytical skills
- Ability to work collaboratively as well as independently on projects in a fast paced environment
- Ability to manage multiple projects, set priorities, and meet deadlines
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills – equal weight on ability to present to peers and executives
- Team player – proven ability to motivate a matrix network to deliver high-quality marketing initiatives
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- At least 3 references with direct knowledge of your work
- Brief, descriptive, writing samples
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year Only include those which you feel comfortable discussing. Be prepared to verbally present and defend your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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Executive Assistant
Remote
Part time with potential for full time based on performance
Responsibilities:
- Perform various administrative and project-related activities in support of executive management team
- Draft, compose, type, and proof correspondence using current office software applications
- Create and sustain systems for retention, protection, retrieval, transfer and disposal of confidential information
- Schedule and coordinate logistics for meetings and events
- Organize and manage calendar schedules for CEO and team
- Make travel arrangements and prepare expense reports
- Maintain office supplies
- Manage departmental recognition
- Track headcount and spending
- Serves as information resource/communication channel for policies and procedures
- Serves as resource for office related software applications
- Execution of research, data analysis, and preparing reports/recommendations
- Copy, collate, sort and distribute materials
- Manage complex and diversified assignments and communications with geographically distributed team members and investors
- Demonstrate good judgment and decision making ability in resolving moderately complex problems
Qualifications:
- College degree and at least 5 years of executive/administrative support experience (verifiable by references)
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex logistics for a team (this will be a priority)
- Ability to build strong relationships and trust among peers
- Demonstrable patience and ability to work with “VIP” personalities
- Excellent People Skills (phone 75%+)
- Excellent written skills (email, letters)
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Extensive MS Office knowledge
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word (50-80 words-per-minute)
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- SalesForce.com experience
- Experience with programs like Constant Contact
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- Brief, professional, writing samples
- At least 3 professional references
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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Senior Community Manager
Remote
Responsibilities:
- Build, develop and lead community management teams for key franchises
- Partner with marketing to create the pre- and post- launch strategy for community development
- Lead game/franchise specific community management teams
- Train and mentor community management team members
- Develop strategies and techniques to promote player participation in community development
- Ensure consistent presence and user-friendly environment on community message boards
- Create community website content while serving as liaison between the community and design/development teams
- Work with cross-functional teams to continually improve the community site with new features, content, and promotions
- Solicit, track and report community member feedback to internal departments
- Collaborate with internal departments to ensure that community member feedback is addressed
- Travel to professional conferences and promotional events
- Establish, document and continually improve processes for communication, maintenance and policing of forums
- Collaborate with multiple design/development and business teams on game design, development and promotion efforts
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations or equivalent experience
- Five or more years of online community management experience
- Three or more years of leading a community management team
- Demonstrable success in creating positive, active game communities a strong positive
- MMO community experience or social networking community experience a strong positive
- Strong technical knowledge of online community platforms, systems and software
- A deep knowledge of and passion for gaming and/or online communities
- Strong problem solving and decision-making ability
- Mature, professional attitude and work ethic. You need to be able to champion your ideas, yet accept and promote the ideas of others
- Superior organizational and communication skills are essential. Must be able to keep track of minute details as well as the big picture while multitasking
- Demonstrable ability to analyze games and identify design strengths and weaknesses
- Strong research skills a positive
- Demonstrable writing ability a strong positive
- Tabletop and/or pen-and-paper RPG experience a strong positive
- Familiarity with classic fantasy literature and mythology a necessity
- Strong computer skills (very comfortable in MS Word, Excel, Visio, etc)
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
- Must be willing to travel domestically and internationally
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- Brief, professional, writing samples
- At least 3 references with direct knowledge of your work
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year Only include those which you feel comfortable discussing. Be prepared to verbally present and defend your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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Community Manager
Remote
Responsibilities:
- Build and develop a robust online community for key franchises
- Partner with marketing to create the pre- and post- launch strategy for community development
- Implement and propose improvements to strategies and techniques to promote player participation in community development
- Ensure consistent presence and user-friendly environment on community message boards
- Contribute and improve community website content while serving as liaison between the community and live teams
- Work with cross-functional teams to continually improve the community site with new features, content, and promotions
- Solicit, track and report community member feedback to internal departments
- Collaborate with internal departments to ensure that community member feedback is addressed
- Travel to professional conferences and promotional events
- Establish, document and continually improve processes for communication, maintenance and policing of forums
- Collaborate with multiple design/development and business teams on game design, development and promotion efforts
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations or equivalent experience desired
- 3 or more years of online community management experience
- Demonstrable success in creating positive, active game communities a strong positive
- MMO community experience or social networking community experience a strong positive
- Experience with online community platforms, systems and software
- A deep knowledge of and passion for gaming and/or online communities
- Strong problem solving and decision-making ability
- Mature, professional attitude and work ethic. You need to be able to champion your ideas, yet accept and promote the ideas of others
- Superior organizational and communication skills are essential
- Demonstrable ability to analyze games and identify player friction elements
- Strong research skills a positive
- Demonstrable writing ability a strong positive
- Tabletop and/or pen-and-paper RPG experience a strong positive
- Familiarity with classic fantasy literature and mythology a positive
- Strong computer skills (very comfortable in MS Word, Excel, Visio, etc)
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
- Must be willing to travel domestically and internationally
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- Brief, professional, writing samples
- At least 3 professional references
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year Only include those which you feel comfortable discussing.
- Be prepared to verbally present and defend your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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Senior Game Designer
San Diego
Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize, create and maintain detailed game design documentation throughout the project cycle
- Manage and lead game design initiatives, ranging from new features to system restructuring
- Collaborate with distributed group of team leads and designers to develop ideas for game content
- Take full design responsibility for the creation of zone/quest content up to and including map layouts, quest trees, dialogue, and encounter documentation
- Participate in creation and development of overall game vision
- Work cooperatively with designers, artists and coders to see the design vision implemented through to completion
- Manage design, evaluation, and balancing of day-to-day details
- Provide constructive qualitative feedback in an effort to continually improve gamer experiences
- Coordinate with QA and provide test specifications
- Remain current on industry trends and techniques in game design
Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years of development experience required
- Must be an avid gamer with extensive experience in MMORPG and Social Networking games, with demonstrably strong interest in pushing the genre forward creatively
- Demonstrable success in creating compelling (fun, commercially viable, and critically-acclaimed) game-play, scenarios, activities, and encounters
- Highly creative, passionate about innovation, eager to go explore the ever expanding frontiers of games
- Mature, professional attitude and work ethic. You need to be able to champion your ideas, yet accept and promote the ideas of others
- Superior organizational and communication skills are essential. Must be able to keep track of minute details as well as the big picture while multitasking
- Demonstrable ability to analyze games and identify design strengths and weaknesses
- Strong research skills necessary
- Demonstrable writing ability a strong positive
- Experience with scripting languages and tools
- Tabletop and/or pen-and-paper RPG experience a strong positive
- Familiarity with classic fantasy literature a strong positive
- Strong computer skills (very comfortable in MS Word, Excel, Visio, etc)
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- Brief, descriptive, writing samples
- At least 3 references with direct knowledge of your work
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year Only include those which you feel comfortable discussing. Be prepared to verbally present and defend your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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Designer (Content)
San Francisco
Responsibilities:
- Conceptualize, create and maintain content for multiple games
- Iterate existing content to improve game flow and gamer experiences
- Create and maintain documentation of content and game designs
- Learn tools quickly and work in a distributed development environment with aggressive timelines
- Assist in planning of and preparing for development and release of future content
- Provide constructive qualitative feedback in an effort to continually improve gamer experiences
- Receive and respond to constructive criticism positively
- Script events and behavior as needed
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, artists and business team members
Qualifications:
- 1 to 3 years of game content development experience required
- Must be an avid gamer with extensive experience in MMORPG and Social Networking games, with demonstrably strong interest in pushing the genre forward creatively
- Experience with scripting languages and game world editors
- Demonstrable success in creating compelling (fun, commercially viable, and critically-acclaimed) game-play, scenarios, activities, and encounters
- Highly creative, passionate about innovation, eager to go explore the ever expanding frontiers of games
- Mature, professional attitude and work ethic. You need to be able to champion your ideas, yet accept and promote the ideas of others
- Superior organizational and communication skills are essential. Must be able to keep track of minute details as well as the big picture while multitasking
- Demonstrable ability to analyze games and identify design strengths and weaknesses
- Strong research skills a positive
- Demonstrable writing ability a strong positive
- Experience with scripting languages and tools
- Tabletop and/or pen-and-paper RPG experience a strong positive
- Familiarity with classic fantasy literature a strong positive
- Strong computer skills (very comfortable in MS Word, Excel, Visio, etc)
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Valid US work authorization a requirement
- Must pass background check
To apply, please submit:
- Resume
- Brief, descriptive, writing samples
- At least 3 references with direct knowledge of your work
- List of favorite fantasy novels and authors. Include reason for the selection of each
- List of online and mobile games played within the past year Only include those which you feel comfortable discussing. Be prepared to verbally present and defend your analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.
- At least two unrelated creative writing samples
Please Note:
Due to the volume of applications we receive for our job postings, we are unable to respond personally to telephone inquiries regarding the status of an application. Only candidates being considered for an interview will be contacted at this time.
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