{"id":898,"date":"2010-05-16T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T15:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=898"},"modified":"2010-05-17T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:11:36","slug":"uk-games-companies-are-hiring-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/16\/uk-games-companies-are-hiring-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"UK games companies are hiring (2010)&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;ll add other roles in as\/when I get the OK from the relevant people; not all of these are public yet.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nDespite the heavy rash of studio closures (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesbrief.com\/joblosstracker\/\">well documented by Nicholas Lovell<\/a>), it seems there&#8217;s a lot of exciting online\/social games hiring going on right now &#8211; I&#8217;m getting lots of requests from friends, ex-colleagues etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/jobs?viewJob=&#038;jobId=964022&#038;goback=.hom&#038;trk=NUS_JOBP-title\">Head of Mini Games<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/mindcandy.com\">Mind Candy<\/a> (London-based social games startup; runs a successful kids MMO &#8211; Moshi Monsters)\n<li>Financial Manager \/ Social Gaming Economy Modeller and Virtual Goods Data Analysis at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lockwoodpublishing.com\">Lockwood<\/a> (Nottingham-based online \/ virtual world startup; built most of the cool stuff in PlayStation Home, now building their own MMOs) &#8211; *entry level\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s also some interesting roles in publishing, and some in startup online games companies.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re UK-based, you&#8217;ve worked in MMO \/ social games \/ etc, and you&#8217;re looking for a job, feel free to email me. No CV&#8217;s, just tell me who you are and what you&#8217;re looking for in 4 sentences or less.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you see an entry-level job here you want to apply for, ditto and I&#8217;ll put you in touch (or just follow the links to the company directly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;ll add other roles in as\/when I get the OK from the relevant people; not all of these are public yet. &#8212; Despite the heavy rash of studio closures (well documented by Nicholas Lovell), it seems there&#8217;s a lot of exciting online\/social games hiring going on right now &#8211; I&#8217;m getting lots of requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}