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Do you have a strong passion for games?

Perfect World Entertainment, Inc., an online video game publisher, is a fast-paced, dynamic workplace that challenges and rewards its employees.

We are always looking for talented team players with diverse backgrounds and a passion for games!

Please submit your resumes to: nahr@perfectworld.com

Currently we are seeking qualified candidates for the following positions:

Product Manager

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Provide product management leadership throughout the products lifecycle (market/product requirement documents, pricing, forecasts, roadmaps, messaging, go-to-market plans, etc.)
  • • Plan/manage the marketing campaign for the products lifecycle.
  • • Identify & create new business opportunities by market research, customer and partner feedback, industry knowledge, internal company dies and creative vision.
  • • Prepare and present strategic, competitive, and market analysis for the product.
  • • Ensure technical and product messaging accuracy of customer, partner, and reseller marketing materials.
  • • Create and organize community events.

Requirements:

  • • Game industry experience is preferred and highly desirable.
  • • Minimum 3 years of experience in a similar role.
  • • Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
  • • Strong ability to critically analyze market problems and define clear, detailed, and logical product and service solutions.
  • • Strong oral, written, organizational, and presentation skills.
  • • High level of professionalism, integrity, confidence and commitment.
  • • BA or BS degree or equivalent.
Community Management Specialist

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Establish and moderate online community forums.
  • • Coordinate & manage community forum moderators.
  • • Actively engage users through Q&A forums and monitor community activity regularly.
  • • Maintain forums according to our policy.
  • • Provide community feedback to marketing and production team.
  • • Build and cultivate an online community of affluent users.
  • • Responsible for writing, reviewing and approving posts/articles on content related to the site.

Requirements:

  • • Very strong web communication skills. Blogging experience a plus.
  • • Strong track record of engaging users and growing online communities.
  • • Good understanding of online communities and online forum etiquette.
  • • Extremely well organized and detail oriented.
  • • Experience with MMORPG's
  • • Bachelor's degree preferred.
  • • At least 1 year of prior similar experience.
Customer Service/Billing Representative (Local Candidates Only)

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Help the community by providing support both in and out of game.
  • • Resolve tickets/emails in a timely manner with accurate resolutions.
  • • Participate in phone/live chat conversations if and when necessary.
  • • Build a sense of trust and security within the user base to help expand the community.
  • • Research our library of game titles to better understand the possible plight of the user.
  • • Collect, research, and investigate possible in-game problems, exploits, and bugs.
  • • Provide reports to management addressing common customer concerns and current issues.
  • • Provide suggestions based on trend analysis of common customer concerns and issues.
  • • Investigate possible fraud-related payments.
  • • Approve or reject payments made for virtual currency.
  • • Investigate possible fraud-related registrants.
  • • Perform policing duties as an in-game Game Master.

Requirements:

  • • Must be knowledgeable in written and spoken English.
  • • Must be well organized, able to prioritize tasks, and have a good sense of time management
  • • Must be familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel.
  • • Able to effectively communicate thoughts and solutions to clients, staff, and management.
  • • Game industry experience is preferred and highly desired.
Senior Database Administrator

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Plan, develop and maintain 3D online gaming databases, including standards development/definition, documentation of systems architecture, and development of project plans using new DB products, releases, and upgrades.

Requirements:

  • • Master's degree in computer, engineering, or scientific field, MCDBA certification and 1year experience in above duties using MS SQL Server 2000/2005, BCP, DTS and SSIS.
Project Manager

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Manage the complete web design production lifecycle for multiple projects simultaneously
  • • Documenting project specifications
  • • Gathering requirements from Product Managers
  • • Communicate design assets, use cases and process flow to Engineering teams
  • • Identify and resolving conflicts and issues, and optimizing work process
  • • Successfully apply principles of graphic, interactive, user-interface, and information design to manage the development of websites

Requirements:

  • • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
  • • Minimum 3+ years relevant project management experience
  • • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
  • • Experience setting and communicating priorities to project teams, while managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • • Experience in writing technical documentation catered to designers as well as engineers
  • • Must have strong problem-solving ability, the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and align activities to meet organizational goals
  • • An eye for detail and a dedication to quality
  • • Proficiency in Photoshop and Flash desired
  • • HTML and CSS experience desired
MySQL DBA

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Data mining from raw log files into relational database, maintenance and tuning of mission-critical MySQL databases
  • • Solid knowledge of scalable schema design principals and provide assistance to development/design teams, and recommend best practices both in code and database design including creation of Stored Procedures and Indexing
  • • Monitor database system details within the database, including stored procedures and execution time, and implement efficiency improvements
  • • Experience in updating MySQL instances in a high volume environment 100M+ rows
  • • Extensive writing support of scripts in Perl/PHP/Python and/or Shell/Bash
  • • Monitor, optimize and allocate physical data storage for database systems and work with development teams on data sizing based on efficient use of multi-core systems
  • • Manage database backups and ensure disaster recovery and data retention protocols (backup, monitoring, security, installation)
  • • Provide 24/7 support for critical production situations

Requirements:

  • • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems
  • • 3+ Years DBA experience in development or production capacity
  • • 3+ Years experience designing, developing, tuning, optimizing, deploying and updating MySQL instances in a high volume environment with critical 100% uptime requirements
  • • Experience in Replication (Master - Master, Master to Slave...)
  • • MySQL 5.x experience required (InnoDB and MyISAM, and other engines)
  • • Scripting language knowledge of bash/perl/php
  • • 3+ years of deep experience with Linux System Administration
  • • Strong analytical skills
PR/Marketing Coordinator

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Liaise with Product Managers with regard to print and online campaign needs
  • • Coordinate with PR agency, vendors and other department staff to enhance the production and execution process
  • • Assist in developing, organizing and providing support to various PR functions and media events to ensure the Company
  • • Keep detailed records and inventory
  • • Assist in trade show and event planning
  • • Maintain creative asset database
  • • Communicate with external creative service providers
  • • Develop and distribute press material and develop new content ideas for use
  • • Assist with special assignments as needed

Requirements:

  • • BA in Marketing, Communications or Business.
  • • Minimum 1 year of Public Relations and Marketing experience either at the corporate or agency level.
  • • Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Microsoft Project a plus.
  • • Excellent communication skills, diplomacy/people skills a must.
  • • Self-started with team orientation.
  • • Ability to work on numerous projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  • • Previous office or internship experience required.
  • • Media experience a plus.
  • • Gaming industry experiences a plus.
Quality Assurance Tester (Local Candidates Only)

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Perform routine testing of our games before deployment and before patches and updates
  • • Know the game inside and out and finding issues or flaws within the game
  • • Write bug reports in a format where the procedure can be clearly understood by all parties
  • • Use tools to monitor networking and game functionality
  • • Assist in the monitoring of our online games and providing technical support
  • • Collect, investigate, and process various data regarding in-game issues, exploits, and bugs

Requirements:

  • • Must have completed High School Proficiency Exam with a strong passion for games
  • • A strong dedication to user satisfaction, attention to detail, and technical aptitude with computers
  • • The ability to execute processes to accomplish goals and tasks
  • • Strong communication skills with motivation and team oriented
  • • Hardcore gamers who have the ability to master a game in a short amount of time
  • • Experience in the video game industry will be a plus
  • • Spelling and Grammar proficiency is a must
Web Designer

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Create high quality graphics using pre-existing concept artwork
  • • Conceptualize the layout and organization of the sites
  • • Apply colors and images along with CSS style sheets for graphics and websites
  • • Communicate design assets, use cases and process flow to Development teams
  • • Successfully apply principles of graphic, interactive, user-interface, and information design to improve the development of websites

Requirements:

  • • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
  • • 3+ years of professional web design experience
  • • Expert knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and HTML/CSS page creation tools
  • • A creative sense with the ability to adapt various graphic styles
  • • Excellence in screen layout and visual design
  • • An eye for detail and a dedication to quality
  • • Knowledge of web user interface design principles and web design best practices and standards
QA / Release Engineer

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Collaborate with developers, product owners and management to understand product release
  • • Perform testing on applications during all stages of development
  • • Manage both testing and release of our web applications to game updates
  • • Performs troubleshooting and bug verification
  • • Performs web software unit testing
  • • Provides support for projects which may require research and analysis
  • • Define and implement a test strategy
  • • Document bug clearly and concisely in the bug-tracking database
  • • Conduct other test duties as assigned

Requirements:

  • • BS in Computer Science – 2+ years experience as a QA Engineer working with Web technologies
  • • Proficient in identifying defects and duplicating problems
  • • Experience with writing, maintaining and implementing test plans
  • • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • • Excellent work ethic and a team player
  • • Comfortable multitasking, resolving competing priorities, and meeting project deadlines
  • • Excellent interpersonal communication skills and of exceptional character
  • • Decisive, action-oriented individual who learns quickly, works independently, and creates solutions
  • • Proficiency with a Unix/Linux scripting language (e.g. perl) highly desirable
  • • QA Automation, Load, Regression & Performance Testing experience
  • • Experience working in a startup environment is extremely useful
Flash Designer

Responsibilities & Job Duties:

  • • Work with the creative team to concept and implement Flash projects including web sites, interactive ads, flash video players, landing pages, micro-sites, and Rich internet applications.
  • • Give creative input regarding enhancements using Flash and related technologies.
  • • Expert in optimizing Flash to reduce CPU usage as well as reducing the file size to fit within standard banner ads requirements.
  • • Work with Adobe After Effects to create video effects for use within Flash applications.
  • • Utilize XML to dynamically update Flash applications.
  • • Work with Rich Media vendor platforms to integrate third party technologies and scripts within ads.

Requirements:

  • • Stellar Web/Interactive Portfolio (Flash Banners, Rich Media).
  • • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience in Graphics Design or related field.
  • • Extensive knowledge of Adobe CS3 Flash, as well as a good knowledge of Photoshop and Illustrator.
  • • Minimum of 3 years strong Flash experience.
  • • Expert level ActionScript (2 and 3) programming.
  • • Strong understanding of web standards and technologies.
  • • Expert knowledge of Flash animation techniques using both the timeline and programmatic motion.
  • • Expert knowledge of encoding audio and video within Flash.

“Don’t see any positions that match your background? If you are a talented individual who has a passion for games, please send your resume to nahr@perfectworld.com.

Note to Professional Recruiters: All professional recruiters should correspond with us via email, addressed to nahr@perfectworld.com.  Please do not call.  Resumes received by Perfect World Entertainment Inc. from recruiters who have not entered into a written contract with us are considered unsolicited and will be kept as Perfect World Entertainment Inc.’s intellectual property, or deleted as appropriate.