Graphic designer – mobile games – Stockholm
Nu Creatives is a recruitment agency specialising in creative, specialist and management jobs in communication/advertising, web/mobile and online gaming.
Our client is a market leader in browser-based gaming software and renowned for the high-quality games and platform they develop. It's a rapidly growing, fast-paced, international and challenging organization with great possibilities for growth and development both personally and professionally. Located in the heart of Stockholm in a newly renovated office space. We are now looking for a graphic designer to join their inhouse creative studio.
The studio consists of approximately 15 creative professionals, a mix of art directors, designers, illustrators and 3D artists. Being a part of the team means you will have the opportunity to work with other creative and talented professionals and challenge your artistic sides. All the material for the games is produced inhouse.
The Job
As a graphic designer in the mobile platform team, your tasks will involve the whole chain in creating world-class game content, from sketches to final graphics. You will create everything from prototypes to final game as well as graphics for different mobile platforms. You will work closely together with your colleagues and the art director.
Experience and Skills
We think you have a couple of years' experience from working with similar tasks and that you have a relevant educational background for the job. Apart from that:
- Intermediate knowledge of the Adobe Suite (PS, Ill, Fl) and possibly other relevant design tools.
- Basic knowledge of graphics creation in Flash
- Good traditional 2D sketching and composition skills
- Strong layout and interface skills
- Good understanding of the principles of design for hand-held devices
- Fluency in English is a must, Swedish is a merit
- Illustration skills are considered a merit
Your Personality
In order to succeed, you need to be a team player with the desire to take the products to absolute top levels. You are detail-oriented and passionate about your work. You enjoy iterating and brainstorming within a team and you have the ability to adapt your artistic style as needed in various projects.
Application
Please send your application ASAP including CV and portfolio, to anna (a) nucreatives (dot) com. Mark it 'mobile GD'.
Web Developers .net for online music startup – Stockholm
Nu Creatives is a recruitment agency specialising in creative, specialist and management jobs in communication/advertising, web/mobile and online gaming. We have a strong digital backbone, but recruit people for jobs in all media channels. http://www.nucreatives.com, http://www.facebook.com/NuCreatives, http://twitter.com/NuCreAnna.
Nu Creatives client is a music startup that runs an online service for DJs and music lovers. The platform gives DJs the possibility to store and market themselves and their music mixes. And at the same time, music consumers can choose among these mixes (an activity that could be described as somewhere between radio and track on demand). The platform is also built to support other usage, such as music solutions for global brands. This is a growing company with lots of things in the loop, and we are now looking to support their growth by finding several new web developers to join the team.
Web Developer at one of Sweden's Music start-ups
We are looking for talented web developers to join the Stockholm-based team. You should be experienced but hungry, results-oriented and passionate about working on an advanced technical product. They use the Microsoft stack, ASP.NET MVC and SQL Server, and all the standard tools.
The product is an online platform where you can listen to music mixes as well as upload, share and promote your own music mixes. The people behind this startup spend a lot of their hours awake listening to, or interacting with music. Some of them dj, when not writing code, others just love discovering new music, sharing it and giving new life to old tracks by mixing them up.
The Job
- Building an advanced web application. They'll fit you to your strengths, but the range of work is wide. Most of your time will be on web development and technical strategies.
- Deliver - quickly and efficiently. They appreciate pretty code and elegant solutions a lot, but love results even more.
- You'll be a part of the planning and strategy of the product.
- Wear many hats - you'll listen to customers, roadmap features, make technical decisions, get things done, etc.
- Champion an engineering culture of customer-driven products, efficiency and innovation.
- Find, develop and handle supplier contracts.
What we look for
- Passion
- Talent
- Communication skills. Be good in fast-paced teams where communication and teamwork is crucial.
- You like a challenge. You get pleasure out of creating elegant solutions to problems with tricky constraints and goals.
- You understand and embrace the startup culture.
Requirements
- Excellent .NET knowledge.
- Experience from ASP.NET MVC, IIS, SQL Server, etc.
- Strong quality focus.
- Excellent English level.
Extra Credit
- Knowledge of PHP / MySQL.
- Experience from scaling tactics, caching strategies and DB maintenance.
- Experience from streaming and storage solutions (RTMP, Amazon Web Services such as S3/CloudFront/EC2).
- Experience from a startup or a similarily agile company.
- Experience from community and/or music oriented products.
- Active in the community - real life, open source, etc.
Company Offer
Working at a growing technology startup is a unique choice, that has its advantages. What they bring to the table is just as important as what you bring:
- The freedom and tools you need to create and succeed.
- The opportunity to build a game-changing product.
- An environment with other, likeminded people who work hard, have fun, and hate politics but value results.
- Appropriate remuneration, and great development possibilities.
On top of this, the job offers a good integration in the international music scene as well as the metropolitan city of Stockholm.
Application
Please send your application ASAP to anna (a) nucreatives (dot) com. Mark it 'WD Music'.
2D Graphics Artist – Online gaming – Stockholm
Nu Creatives is a recruitment agency specialising in creative, specialist and management jobs in communication/advertising, web/mobile and online gaming. We have a strong digital backbone, but recruit people for jobs in all media channels. http://www.nucreatives.com, http://www.facebook.com/NuCreatives, http://twitter.com/NuCreAnna.
We are now looking for a graphic designer with broad skills for one of our clients in online gaming, located in Stockholm, starting September 1st
2D Graphics Artist
We are looking for a talented graphic designer with illustration, animation and interface skills. Your tasks will include creating game content sketches to final graphics to be implemented in Flash. You will create everything from concepts and visualizations to final game graphics.
Experience and Skills
- A strong portfolio
- High-level experience from photoshop and Illustrator
- Good knowledge of graphics creation in Flash
- Animation skills in Flash (preferred)
- Excellent grasp of typography and color theory.
- Strong layout and interface skills
- Strong traditional 2D sketching and composition skills
- Good understanding of user experience
- Ability to adapt to various artistic styles, as needed in different projects.
Your personality:
You are detailed, with strong initiative and self motivation. You love creating great graphics and you are are a teamplayer who enjoys brainstorming, team work and knowledge exchange.
Your application:
Please send in your application as soon as possible, including resumé and portfolio to anna (a) nucreatives (dot) com. Mark it '2D'.
3D Artist for Market Leading Online Gaming Company – STHLM
Nu Creatives client is a market leader in browser-based gaming software and is renowned for the high quality games and platform that they develop. This is a rapidly growing, fast-paced, international and challenging organization with great possibilities for growth and development both personally and professionally. They are located in the heart of Stockholm in a newly renovated office space.
Their graphics studio consists of 15 creative professionals, a mix of Art Directors, designers, illustrators and 3D artists. Being a part of the team means you will have the opportunity to work with other creative and talented professionals and challenge your artistic senses. They produce all the material for their games at the office in Stockholm.
About the position
As a 3D Artist you work within the 3D team. Tasks include everything from creating models to make renderings to their games. You will be participating in taking the game from an idea to the final product.
Your background and previous experience
We believe you have a couple of years' experience from working with similar tasks and we prefer that you have some kind of relevant education as well. In the position as 3D Artist you must master the following techniques and technologies:
- 3D modeling
- Animation in Maya
- 2D sketching and composing
- Graphics and animation in After Effects
Your personality
You are a team player with the desire to take the products to higher levels. You are detail-oriented with strong initiative and drive. To enjoy working at this company, it is important that you appreciate a dynamic and flexible environment.
Your application
Please send in your application as soon as possible by emailing anna (a) nucreatives (dot) com, and we will get in touch promptly if we think you are the right candidate. We would like to see a resumé and a portfolio/work samples. Mark your application '3D'.
Easy is looking for a Webdesigner
Founded in 2008 by several game and web industry veterans, Easy is a successful new studio focused on free online games. It is the studio group behind Battlefield Heroes, Lord of Ultima, Battleforge and the next-gen shooter Battlefield Play4free. Several other unannounced titles are currently in development. Easy is made up out of 3 distinct teams. A shooter-focused team and web development team both based in Stockholm, and then the German based
studio Phenomic which is a strategy game focused studio.
Easy prides itself on working at the cutting edge of games – both in development and business models. It has an international audience of millions of players, a multitude of great products live (and in development) AND it is a fun, positive environment to work in with an eye firmly on the future. For more information visit the Easy website, www.easystudios.se.
Responsibilities:
• Design visually compelling web interfaces that are easy to use and fun.
• Create wireframes and graphic mockups based on high level requirements.
• Collaborate with developers to convert designs into working code.
• Analyze existing sites to find areas that need to be improved upon.
Although this is a design role, we are a small team. The ideal candidate will be well-rounded in the skills required to create a great web experience. It’s a big plus if you can also demonstrate skills in other areas such as:
• Interface copywriting (in English).
• Collecting and using data as a part of the design process (web usage data, usability studies, AB tests etc…).
• Web development.
• Flash development.
Experience/Education
• Demonstrated (v
ia portfolio) ability to create great looking, highly usable websites.
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator and any HTML authoring tool.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and user interface requirements.
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS.
• Has a passion for gaming.
Personal qualities of importance
• Opinionated, with a strong sense of design and aesthetics.
• Able to explain and advocate for those opinions in a multi-disciplinary team.
General Information
If you are interested please submit your resume/CV in English at www.eajobs.com, applications will be screened continuously. For more information please contact Jessica Danielson, at +46 8 658 78 00.