Jobs
2K Sports is looking for talented people who are passionate about games to fill the following roles at the Visual Concepts.
VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING
2K Sports - Novato, CA
Posted: May 3, 2013
Do you thrive in a very structured corporate environment? You’ll hate it here.
Are you the ultra-cautious and overly-analytical type? You ain’t a fit.
Do you gauge ideas solely by whether or not they’ve worked in the past? We’re not going to get along.
We are looking for a senior-level, big-idea creative marketing talent who thrives on constantly pushing, evolving and reinventing; isn’t afraid to take some risks, and is obsessed with growing the business and getting results. Robotic cookie-cutter marketers need not apply. But if connecting with consumers is more in your blood than from a textbook, we should talk.
SUMMARY: Lead and direct all brand and product marketing efforts for 2K sports videogame products including creative development, advertising, communications/public relations, and retail/POP. Partner and interface with internal cross-functional business groups and external vendors to ensure seamless implementation of strategic marketing plans. Manage staff and marketing budgets.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and direct all marketing efforts, including communications, branding, public relations, customer relations, advertising, agency relationships, and the website, from a marketing perspective. Develop objectives, policies, plans and programs for all marketing activities, utilizing both new media and traditional media in order to create marketing campaigns that increase market share.
- Develop strategic planning including marketing planning, contributing to company planning, and developing company vision; define and communicate value propositions.
- Lead marketing implementation to drive sales pipeline from initial contact through hand-off to sales.
- Direct product marketing including positioning, messaging, competitive analysis, pricing, and sales strategy development.
- Work closely with senior management to recommend marketing programs that will help achieve targeted growth, profit, and market share performance relative to corporate goals and general and specific trends within the industry and the economy.
- Evaluate marketing strategies and implement programs to improve competitive position in and penetration of target markets.
- Develop key marketing metrics and prepare performance reports to track program effectiveness.
- Direct the design, development and production of materials that support the selling of company products and product acceptance. Work with internal/external writers, designers and other advertising professionals to develop highly effective marketing and promotional materials that will move the business forward.
- Manage staff and budgets.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years’ product marketing experience in a senior management role, preferably in sports marketing and/or with progressive, young consumer brands. Must include experience in developing strategic marketing brand, creative and tactical plans, promotional programs, retail/in-store promotions/POP, and product roll-out to sales teams.
Skills:
- Strong strategic orientation with ability to create a vision as well as execute detailed plans.
- Ability to communicate vision of company from a marketing perspective.
- Proven ability to roll out marketing programs.
- High-energy, results-oriented self-starter with a strong sense of urgency and need to achieve.
- Creative thinker willing to take bold initiatives.
- Confident and flexible team player capable of building and motivating a top quality marketing team.
- Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to create sales presentations (e.g., PowerPoint, Prezi, charades, overhead transparencies).
- Willingness to travel internationally or domestically when required.
REPORTS TO: Senior Vice President of Marketing, 2K
Contact
Please send resume to Brooke.Grabrian@2kgames.com.
PR MANAGER
2K Sports - Novato, CA
Posted: May 3, 2013
SUMMARY: Collaborate with Public Relations Director and Product Managers to create, manage and execute public relations programs for 2K Sports. Assist with the direction and implementation of the strategic planning process and ongoing action plans to achieve established PR program and brand objectives.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve as the sole internal PR representative for 2K Sports, responsible for assisting in creating overarching product campaign strategies, leading the execution of all tactical activities, and liaising with executives.
- The ideal candidate will be capable of balancing roles as a strategic counselor with leading and executing all tactical media relations efforts; from event planning and game demos, to feature pitching and coverage reporting.
- Assist with development and implementation of US PR efforts for 2K Sports games including NBA 2K and WWE 2K; assist with defining media coverage objectives for each product and planning product launches, media interviews, press tours and events.
- Collaborate with product managers, development teams and PR agency teams to assist with the development of strategic plans and manage external PR firm throughout implementation of plan objectives.
- Develop relationships with industry media contacts and serve as spokesperson when appropriate. The ideal candidate will have solid media contacts, as media relations will be a daily part of the job.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with 2K partners and developers.
- Keep 2K team and executives informed about industry news and monitor perceptions and reviews of 2K products and the 2K Games brand.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of public relations work experience, including experience launching video games. PR agency experience is strongly preferred. Must have a demonstrated track record of managing large, complex events and strong knowledge of video game industry and sports games specifically.
Skills:
- Must have very strong, demonstrable interest in sports and video games.
- Excellent organization, interpersonal, and written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to spot and develop big story ideas.
- Detail-orientation with strong editing skills for all forms of media/communications produced by PR team.
- Ability to demonstrate initiative working as part of a team as well as individually.
- Ability to work flexibly under pressure in order to respond to multiple changing priorities.
- Strong PC skills, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Contact
Please send resume to Brooke.Grabrian@2kgames.com.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
2K Sports - Visual Concepts, Shanghai, China
Posted: January 10, 2012
Job Responsibilities
Widely regarded as one of the world’s top video game studios, Visual Concepts, a subsidiary of TakeTwo Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seeks Software Engineers to join its rising development effort in Shanghai, China. Visual Concepts is best known for some of the world’s greatest sports videogames, including the world’s #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise, NBA 2K. Now, top software engineers can join Visual Concepts and help launch and continue to evolve and innovate in the next revolution in sports gaming specifically for the Chinese and Asian markets, NBA 2K Online. NBA 2K Online is already garnering significant consumer and public attention in China.
This is an opportunity to work on the world’s best sports videogame simulations, use leading edge Visual Concepts technology and learn from some of the very brightest and most experienced minds in the videogame industry. Enjoy a culture dedicated to gaming and technical excellence. Receive competitive compensation. Earn the opportunity to participate in work exchange programs at the Northern California studio. Visual Concepts is aggressively expanding into Asia.
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science
- Have shipped at least one commercial videogame product
- High proficiency in C/C++
- Experience in either graphics/rendering, or gameplay/AI
- Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently
- Able to learn and master complicated code systems
- Able to write clean, bug free, well documented and efficient code
- Passion for videogames
- Good team player
- English a plus but not necessary
Contact
Please send resume to Brooke.Grabrian@2kgames.com.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
2K Sports - Visual Concepts, Novato, CA
Posted: January 10, 2012
Job Description
Widely regarded as one of the world’s top video game studios, Visual Concepts, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seeks Software Engineers to join its ongoing and best in industry development efforts across a multitude of platforms. Visual Concepts is best known for some of the world’s greatest sports videogames, including the world’s #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise, NBA 2K.
Top software engineers can join Visual Concepts and achieve career defining roles in the next generation of sports gaming. Learn and contribute to leading edge technology. Enjoy a culture dedicated to gaming and technical excellence. Be a part of a global development organization that includes Visual Concepts studios in Marin County, California, Shanghai, China and Seoul, South Korea.
Requirements- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science
- High proficiency in C/C++
- Deep understanding of object oriented programming
- Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently
- Able to learn and master complicated code systems
- Able to write clean, bug free, well documented and efficient code
- Passion for videogames
- Good team player
Contact
Please send resume to Brooke.Grabrian@2kgames.com.
SENIOR ONLINE PRODUCER
2K Sports - Visual Concepts, Novato, CA
Posted: February 9, 2012
Job Description
Widely regarded as one of the world’s top video game studios, Visual Concepts, a subsidiary of Take Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seeks a Senior Online Producer to play a pivotal role in the continuing advancement of sports online gaming heading into the next generation.
The Senior Online Producer will bring prior experience launching, supporting and operating online technology, infrastructure and features for commercially successful, large scale online video game titles. The Senior Online Producer will oversee the planning, execution, deployment, expansion, management and support of such titles, supervising development personnel across multiple studios and serving as the primary point of contact with operations staff. The successful candidate will have proven mastery in all of the relevant areas of expertise, including scalability, reliability, security, database architecture, QOS considerations, network performance, latency, social networks, mobile access and so on. Reporting to the VP of Product Development for 2K Sports, this is an opportunity to join a world class organization and help define and achieve substantial global objectives for Visual Concepts’ award winning sports franchises, including the world’s #1 rated and #1 selling NBA 2K.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field such as IT or CS Minimum 5 years of experience in the planning, development and release of online enabled videogames, software or platforms
- Deep understanding of online infrastructure best practices and methodologies including performance, scalability, reliability and security needs and considerations
- Strong organizational, management and execution skills with prior experience at a senior or director level of responsibility
- Strong communication skills
- Highly organized, problem solving personality
- Avid gamer a plus
Contact
Please send resume to Brooke.Grabrian@2kgames.com.
GRAPHICS SOFTWARE ENGINEERS
2K Sports - Visual Concepts, Novato, CA
Posted: January 23, 2013
Job Description
Widely regarded as one of the world’s top video game studios, Visual Concepts, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seeks Graphics Software Engineers to join its ongoing and best-in-industry development efforts into new generations of platforms. Visual Concepts is best known for some of the world’s greatest sports videogames, including the world’s #1-rated and #1-selling basketball franchise, NBA 2K.
The successful candidate will bring a deep and intuitive understanding of the methods and technologies that create cutting edge visuals, from production pipelines to rendering techniques, and a proven track-record of meaningful contributions to the AAA videogame graphics. The candidate will play a key role in establishing and optimizing the next generation of development workflow and technical objectives, though innovative tools, efficient algorithms and the application of the latest research in rendering.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in videogame graphics or hardware development as a software engineer
- Background in 3D graphics with an understanding of advanced rendering algorithms, techniques, and efficiency considerations
- Background in tools support for Maya
- Background in authoring HLSL shaders
- Photoshop, GIMP, etc. plugin authoring experience is a plus
- Understanding of DDS file format is a plus
- Able to learn and master complicated code systems
- Able to write clean, bug-free, well-documented and efficient code
- Experience working productively with artists to identify pipeline considerations and improve workflow
- Passion for videogames
Contact
Please send resume to Katie.Nelson@2kgames.com.
BUILD ENGINEER
2K Sports - Visual Concepts, Novato, CA
Posted: December 13, 2012
Job Description
Widely regarded as one of the world’s top video game studios, Visual Concepts, a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) seeks a Game Build Engineer to join its ongoing and best-in-industry development efforts across a multitude of platforms. Visual Concepts is best known for some of the world’s greatest sports videogames, including the world’s #1-rated and #1-selling basketball franchise, NBA 2K.
The successful candidate will play an important role in the development process through the maintenance, troubleshooting and release of central code and data components to internal development staff. The successful candidate will have an IT or CS background, possess strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills and be highly self-motivated.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and troubleshoot complex data processing and build systems
- Analyze build errors and report to development staff
- Communicate with development staff
- Handle regular release process and maintain documentation
Requirements
- Must have IT/technical support background; an AA or BS in IT or CS a plus
- Must possess a thorough knowledge of general computer troubleshooting techniques in order to monitor and maintain build machines
- Must possess strong and demonstrable problem solving skills; an analytical mind; the ability to see a problem with a build, and figure out how to solve it
- Must be familiar with Perforce including syncing, branching, labels and integration
- Preferred programming background, with the ability to understand code in C++
- Preferred experience with batch files, make, and additional programming languages (PHP, Python, etc.)
- Strong communication skills, self-motivated and consistent follow-through
Contact
Please send resume to Katie.Nelson@2kgames.com.
