Job Openings
Meteor makes the best social games in the business. Our founders are the people behind Neopets, one of
the first major success stories in online gaming.
We are looking for super talented people who want to make a big impact on the games we make. Our culture is relaxed, creative and fun, with excellent compensation, annual reviews and a wide range of benefits including full medical coverage and 401(k).
If you feel you would make an excellent addition to the Meteor Games team, email your resume, a cover letter and salary history to jobs@meteorgames.com.
We are currently looking to fill the following positions.
All of these positions are based in our West Hollywood, California office. You must be legally able to work in the USA.
If you do not see full details of the position listed below, please send your resume, cover letter and the name of the position you are applying for to jobs@meteorgames.com.
We are looking for super talented people who want to make a big impact on the games we make. Our culture is relaxed, creative and fun, with excellent compensation, annual reviews and a wide range of benefits including full medical coverage and 401(k).
If you feel you would make an excellent addition to the Meteor Games team, email your resume, a cover letter and salary history to jobs@meteorgames.com.
We are currently looking to fill the following positions.
All of these positions are based in our West Hollywood, California office. You must be legally able to work in the USA.
If you do not see full details of the position listed below, please send your resume, cover letter and the name of the position you are applying for to jobs@meteorgames.com.
Systems Administrator
We are looking for an internal systems administrator to assist our engineering department with the day-to-day
tasks of maintaining a high-traffic office network.
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What you'll do:
Requirements:
To Apply:
Please send your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
What you'll do:
- Installing, configuring, and supporting a broad range of desktop applications
- Troubleshooting and supporting hardware and operating systems
- Providing maintenance and support of network
- Providing assistance in the selection of software and establishing procedures
Requirements:
- Excellent Windows Server administration
- Proficient with Active Directory / LDAP
- Knowledge of Mac/OSX server
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of anti-virus and anti-spyware applications
- Knowledge of Unix and/or Linux
- Interest in database administration
- A passion for games
To Apply:
Please send your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
Data Analyst
The Data Analyst will track revenue and purchasing trends for each of our games and provide
measurable analyses based on this data. This position is a metrics-driven role and will be responsible for
helping define the product roadmap and improving viral performance of our games.
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You will be responsible for tracking new user conversion, buyer retention and frequency. You will perform competitive analyses and develop best practices for the game studio. In addition you will be responsible for optimizing revenue products, and managing revenue health and trends.
Education/Experience:
Plus:
To Apply:
Please send your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
You will be responsible for tracking new user conversion, buyer retention and frequency. You will perform competitive analyses and develop best practices for the game studio. In addition you will be responsible for optimizing revenue products, and managing revenue health and trends.
Education/Experience:
- 2-5 years experience in consulting, product management or financial analysis
- Strong analytic skills a must
- Experience with metrics driven-decision making
- Proven experience owning business statistics and creating presentations from these statistics, preferably in the web space
- Demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding strategy
- BA/BS degree required
Plus:
- MBA
- Experience with virtual goods sales
To Apply:
Please send your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
Systems Engineer
We are looking for a very experienced systems engineer to work as part of our engineering department. You must be
comfortable working in a high-traffic, high-growth web environment.
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What you'll do:
Requirements:
To Apply:
Please send code samples, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
PLEASE NOTE: - This is a full-time position based in our West Hollywood office. You must legally be able to work in the USA.
What you'll do:
- Maintain uptime in a high-traffic, high-growth web environment
- Configure and deploy servers
- Optimise database tables and configuration settings
- Optimise server software and hardware settings and configure apache
- Plan for future growth and scalability
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience of working in a high-traffic web environment
- Must have varied and in-depth experience with architecture, development, administration, networking/automation/integration and troubleshooting in a Linux server environment.
- Must be able to deploy code, tune servers etc.
- Experience with storage systems, load balancers, mySQL databases, switches, routers.
- UNIX hardware configuration, installation
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP networking and routing
- Expert with Apache web server
- Advanced knowledge of Linux shell scripting and IP VS
- Solid experience with SANs and/or NAS
- Experience with PHP in a MVC environment
- C / C++ / Python experience
- Knowledge of Ruby
- Knowledge of Apache Proxy
- A passion for games
To Apply:
Please send code samples, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
PLEASE NOTE: - This is a full-time position based in our West Hollywood office. You must legally be able to work in the USA.
Flash UI Designer
This position's responsibilities include working with the game art and design departments creating UI assets for our
flash games and corporate web site, as well as any additional graphics we may require, including merchandise,
clothing and print products.
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Education/Experience:
Plus:
To Apply:
Please send a link to your demo reel, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
Education/Experience:
- Must have extensive experience creating and manipulating graphics for user-interface in Adobe Flash.
- First hand experience with UX design as relating to current and topical flash games and websites.
- In-depth knowledge of Photoshop
- Experience with logo and icon design.
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
- Ability to work well under deadlines.
Plus:
- Passionate about video games.
- Knowledge of HTML/CSS.
- Previous experience with Facebook or other social networking API.
To Apply:
Please send a link to your demo reel, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
Other Positions
Software Engineer
You must have an incredibly sound knowledge of Object Orientated programming and PHP. This is a fun, fast-paced environment
and we have no need for a junior developer. API experience is a plus.
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What you'll do:
Requirements:
Plus:
To Apply:
Please send code samples, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
PLEASE NOTE: - This is a full-time position based in our West Hollywood office. You must legally be able to work in the USA.
What you'll do:
- Work as part of a small team creating exciting games for the web and various social networks.
- Develop a truly ground breaking codebase that is pushing the limits of web browser capabilities.
- Expand our existing suite of games by adding new features and functionality as an ongoing process.
Requirements:
- 5 years OO programming experience
- Extensive PHP5 knowledge
- Experience working within an MVC environment
- MySQL
- Strong UNIX knowledge
- Template engines
Plus:
- A passion for PC or video games
- Experience creating web-based games
- OpenSocial/ Facebook/ Twitter API experience
- AJAX/jQuery experience
To Apply:
Please send code samples, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
PLEASE NOTE: - This is a full-time position based in our West Hollywood office. You must legally be able to work in the USA.
2D Artist
Help us develop fun, bright, and engaging games for web and social platforms. Prior managerial/lead experience is a plus.
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You'll be working from concept to final on characters, environments, and UI design, and using your creative and gaming skills to help improve the finished product. A strong background in color and design, as well as an eye for clean, polished artwork, is required. Experience in Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and other programs is necessary, as well as a passion for games!
Requirements:
Plus:
To Apply:
Please send a link to your demo reel, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
You'll be working from concept to final on characters, environments, and UI design, and using your creative and gaming skills to help improve the finished product. A strong background in color and design, as well as an eye for clean, polished artwork, is required. Experience in Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and other programs is necessary, as well as a passion for games!
Requirements:
- Clean style of work and attention to detail
- Open to direction, input, and a quick and agile team environment
- Good foundation in color, concept, and basic illustration techniques
- Experience with the Adobe program suite (Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator)
- A passion for playing (and making) games!
Plus:
- Experience in 3D and/or Flash animation
- Prior experience working on 2D games for Flash/web/mobile
- UI/graphic design experience
To Apply:
Please send a link to your demo reel, your resume, salary requirements, and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter to jobs@meteorgames.com.
What's it like?
At Meteor Games, we're proud of our creative environment which includes fun office perks
such as:
- • Free drinks and cereal bars
- • Arcade machine
- • Fantastic location near Beverly Hills and Hollywood
- • Console gaming area (Rock Band, PS3, XBOX 360 and Wii)
- • Nerf wars
- • Free covered parking
- • Free lunch Fridays and great social events including BBQs and Bowling Nights
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