🏢 Company: Keywords Studios
🇯🇵 Location: Japan
🌎 Work Model: Remote
Job Location
This position requires you to reside in Japan during your employment with Wizcorp.
About Wizcorp
Wizcorp is looking for Technical Artists to work on exciting multiplayer games targeting a variety of consoles and environments. Depending on your background, skills, and experience we’ll find the most suitable role within our teams.
Is this job for me? 👨🦰👩🦳🧑🦲
You have a few years of work experience working with Unreal Engine and who have released games on consoles. C++ needs to be your lingua franca, and you’re not afraid to deep-dive into the engine itself to make some improvements. Sounds like you?
About Wizcorp 🦄🇯🇵🎮
Wizcorp is a highly specialized game development studio based in Tokyo and operating 100% remotely. We are a cross-cultural team of passionate individuals working together toward one goal: bringing back magic to game development.
How?
We get better every day. Our technical abilities should never limit our ideas. We question the status quo. We don’t accept yesterday’s answers to tomorrow’s challenges. We follow our moral compass. Our values guide our decisions. We surround ourselves with people who believe in our mission. Our staff, clients, and partners are all part of the equation. We learn and share. We want our successes and failures to contribute to the collective wisdom of our profession.
Work Environment
Wizcorp offers a friendly and honest working environment. Our work is challenging but rewarding, with countless personal and professional growth opportunities.
Roles And Responsibilities 🛠️🧪✨
You will be involved in providing technical support for art production in game development.
Application Process 🈸⚙️😊
① Online selection: We review resumes from all applicants within 2 weeks. If your profile matches our requirements, we will send you tests and challenges. Based on the results, we will contact you again to schedule the first interview.
Application Process Continued
② Interviews: We conduct three interviews to assess your character, passions, skills, and interest in what we do. We also take the time to share our vision and values, as we believe you are interviewing us as much as we are interviewing you.
Application Process Continued
③ Reference Checks: We conduct reference checks with your previous employers or professional contacts to better understand your experience and working style.
Application Process Continued
④ Offer: We make our final decision within 2 weeks after the final interview, and send a detailed offer upon success.
Onboarding Process 🈴🗼🌅
We strive to make the onboarding process as smooth and worry-free as possible. Upon acceptance of our offer, you will receive our working agreement and our rules of employment.
Onboarding Process Continued
Ideally, we want you to join us within a month, but we can adjust to your current work situation. On your first day, your manager will introduce you to your team and will set a schedule for reviews over the 6-month probation period. We will give you all the support you need to complete it successfully.
Onboarding Process Continued
At Wizcorp, we grow together. Senior staff will support you and provide mentorship. You will also have access to digital learning material, and your manager will help you define a training curriculum based on your career aspirations.
Requirements
Experience: For Japan-based candidates: 3 or more years of practical experience in the fields of programming, art, and tool development, not just game development, and have a wealth of technical experience. For overseas-based candidates: 7 or more years of practical experience in the fields of programming, art, and tool development, not just game development, and have a wealth of technical experience. Experience in C++ and C#, asset/VFX optimization, and work related to graphic production using scripts on game middleware such as Unreal Engine and/or custom engines. Conversational Japanese proficiency – JLPT N3 or above. English proficiency (ability to read, write, and discuss technical matters).
Welcome Conditions 👍
Those who have experience creating art using VEX or Python on Houdini, or who have streamlined art production.
Benefits 📍
Business hours and Location: Flexibility in time. We expect you to work 8 hours per day from Monday to Friday with core hours between 11:00 and 16:00 (excluding a 1-hour break). Flexibility in location. Wizcorp fully embraces telework, with office space available for your convenience. We may require you to work onsite for specific occasions.
Location Information
Offices are located at 1 Chome-22-19 Izumi 8:9F, Suginami City, Tokyo 168-0063. You must reside in Japan during your employment at Wizcorp. Legal support for visa applications is offered.
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary 💴
The following tiers are currently in application for this position: TA1: 400-450K/month, TA2: 450-550K/month, TA3: 550-600K/month. Salary is based on experience and interview evaluation. Includes a 6 months probation period. Salary is not affected nor changed during that period.
Raises and Bonuses 💹
You will be reviewed once a year and your salary will be adjusted based on gained experience and project contributions. Pay raises are awarded around October or November each year.
Additional Benefits 🈷️
Monthly allowance for home office equipment, private language tutoring, and commute fees.
Holidays and Vacations ♨️
Weekends and national holidays, summer/winter vacation, annual paid leave, bereavement/funeral leave, and sick leave.
Welfare 🤝
Social insurance and parental leave.
Equal Opportunities
Keywords Studios is committed to creating a workplace with equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.
Personal Data Protection Policy
Keywords Studios is committed to protecting your personal information. By sending your CV/Resume, you consent to your data being managed according to our data privacy and retention policy.
Role Information
Studio: Wizcorp, Location: APAC, Japan, Tokyo, Area of Work: Game Development, Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent, Working Pattern: Remote