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Pocket Gems

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Location: 4567 Lougheed Hwy, Burnaby, BC V5C 6G8, Canada Posted: Apr 26, 2022

Job Description

Pocket Gems seeks to build the greatest mobile games and most compelling interactive entertainment in the world. That’s the mission our founders began with, in an apartment above a pizza shop back in 2009, and it continues to inspire us today. Since then, we’ve grown to over 200 people headquartered in San Francisco, and with $155 million in backing from Sequoia Capital and Tencent, we’re constantly breaking new ground in mobile entertainment.

Our products have been downloaded over 500 million times by players around the world and have grossed over $1 billion in revenue. We continue to release brand new content for Episode, a mobile storytelling network and platform, and War Dragons, a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game.

As our community of players continues to grow, we’re committed to building diverse and inclusive environments across our teams, and in our games.

As a Technical Recruiter , you will partner directly with Engineering across all game teams to execute on hiring strategies.. This is a high impact role where you’ll own full-cycle recruiting, create sourcing strategies, and partner on strategic initiatives. Our ideal teammate is someone who: cares deeply about our team, candidates, and hiring partners, acts inclusively by recognizing their own biases and being open-minded, and takes ownership in being proactive and accountable.

What You’ll Do:

  • Drive the full cycle engineering recruitment process - source candidates for a variety of engineering roles
  • Provide data-driven recommendations around interviewing and hiring decisions for our internal partners
  • Identify gaps and continually improve our hiring processes
  • Collaborate and share learnings and questions with our recruiting team throughout interviewing and hiring

What You Bring to the Recruiting Team:

  • 3+ years as an in-house tech recruiter
  • Proven track record of being able to recruit and hire software engineers
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to shift focus and priorities easily, iterating quickly to do the best thing for our candidates and our team
  • Bachelor’s degree required

Extra Gems for:

  • Experience in gaming or entertainment industry

Note : This role is open to remote employment for those who reside in California, Massachusetts, New York, Texas and Washington state.

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At Pocket Gems, we're building teams that value originality, inclusivity, and accountability -- and we hope to engage with talent based on these and other core values . We also offer competitive perks, such as flexible vacation, 401k matching, and a generous benefits package,

Pocket Gems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

About Pocket Gems

Our initial slate of games created the simulation genre on mobile, one of the very first successful categories. Over the past couple of years, we have been building on our legacy through the establishment of two new categories: storytelling in the form of an interactive mobile-first platform and synchronous AAA-quality multiplayer 3D games

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