Mind Candy

Finance Manager

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

Working closely with the Finance Director you will have an eye for detail and be committed to accurate and timely reporting. In return, you will have the opportunity to be a hands-on finance manager with a strategic approach to add value and help drive the business forward.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Oversee the preparation of monthly management information and critically review before presenting to the FD
• Work with the FD to ensure the accurate preparation of year end financial statements for both UK & US companies
• Liaise with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is correctly carried out
• Monitor, interpret and present monthly cash flows, analysing change
• Interpret financial information for internal stakeholders where necessary
• Oversee administration and payment of VAT and tax including all UK and US period end filings
• UK and US payroll management
• Monitor and report monthly performance against financial KPIs to the FD
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost reduction opportunities across the finance dept
• Work to develop all financial reporting and accounting systems internally
• Provide accurate financial reports to specific deadlines
• Assist in the management and control of budgets
• Keep in touch with changes in financial regulations and legislation and help to develop processes to adhere to them
• Assist and mentor other financial staff where necessary

Required Skills:

• Recognised accounting qualification; finance degree, ACA, ACCA
• Experience of varied accounting software
• Knowledge of IFRS, UK and US GAAP
• Commercially astute
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Junior Interactive Designer

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

As a Junior Designer at Mind Candy, you will work on a variety of design and production facets of Moshi Monsters, and any future Mind Candy projects. You will work closely with the other members of the design team, in addition to development, game design, marketing and community teams, to ensure their design and production needs are met.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Interaction / UI design & research (wireframes, etc)
• Interface design & production
• Production art (creating images for blog posts, etc.)
• General graphic production duties (integrating designs into Flash, etc.)
• Banner ad creation (Flash and static)
• Web design
• Print design
• Email design

Required Skills:

• Good knowledge of Flash
• Good knowledge of Illustrator
• Good Knowledge of Photoshop
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS

Desired Skills:

• Design experience with kids web sites a BIG plus
• Some familiarity with AS3
• Experience with version control (SVN)

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Front-End Development Lead

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

As a Development Lead reporting to the CTO, you will be responsible for the leadership and management of a team of highly motivated and creative front-end developers. Using the latest technologies and applying techniques from a wide range of sources, you will lead the development of Mind Candy’s properties, communicating with stakeholders and game developers to develop games and features that use and improve Mind Candy’s existing technology platform, working alongside producers, designers, illustrators, animators and test engineers in a fast paced agile environment.

You will need exceptional problem-solving skills, relationship management and communication skills, a strong background in technology and computer science and the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Working with and leading team members in an exciting and fun quick moving environment to design, develop and ensure the quality of rich media, web-based applications built primarily with Adobe Flash
• Understanding and being responsible for all technical aspects of the front-end systems in Mind Candy’s products
• Working with the CTO to ensure that best practices of programming and working are adhered to and that the solutions selected are the most timely, best performing and lowest cost to achieve the best outcome
• Advanced problem solving
• Meeting tight deadlines
• Actively participating in Mind Candy’s Scrum process and encouraging participation amongst team members
• Duties as required as part of our on-going recruitment process

Required Skills:

• Good knowledge of Flash
• Good knowledge of Illustrator
• Good Knowledge of Photoshop
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS

Required Skills:

• Highly proficient with Object Oriented ActionScript 3.0
• Experienced with the entire Flash product workflow from the Flash IDE through to server side development
• Confidence in working with a large, evolving codebase
• Understanding of MVC frameworks and related design patterns
• Familiar with use of REST and XML for back-end communications
• Confident working in Eclipse with either Flex Builder or FDT with SVN or similar version control systems
• Experienced in full lifecycle, team-based development work
• Experience leading teams of developers and interactive designers
• Experience communicating with senior members of staff such as the management team, project managers and other development leads

Desired Skills:

• A foundation in C or Java programming
• Strong communication skills, experience of working in an Agile environment
• Web and graphics design experience (fully standards-compliant)
• Experience in creating frameworks, templates and documentation for others to use
• An interest in social networking and game design
• Experience in Flex RMI to a Java back-end
• Education in Computer Science or related discipline
• Experience working in a gaming environment

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Global Marketing & PR Assistant

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

Reporting to the Chief Marketing Officer, we are seeking a creative and talented global marketing & PR assistant to join the rapidly growing global marketing team at Mind Candy.

Tasked with assisting the entire global marketing department, we are seeking an enthusiastic and highly creative individual ready for a challenge forging a new career within a rapidly growing entrepreneurial company.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Provide baseline global support to the existing global marketing team at Mind Candy HQ.
• Work alongside our existing PR agencies providing ongoing day to day support dealing with ad hoc requests and enquiries.
• Alongside the global marketing team assist with the formulation of ad hoc marketing briefs providing these to the team as needed.
• Manage ongoing global PR logging and reporting to the overall global team.
• Manage / assist with the co-ordination and attendance at third party events.
• Assist with ad hoc marketing research projects as and when required by the team.
• Brief internal teams / stakeholders for various internal marketing tasks and ongoing marketing projects.
• Provide frontline response support to any third party marketing enquiries via phone / post or email.
• Track key marketing metrics / KPIs reporting these back to the overall team on a weekly basis.
• Assist the team with the formulation of global marketing / PR plans and associated activity timelines.
• Work with the global marketing team to co-ordinate direct email marketing campaigns managing scheduling, drafting copy, briefing agencies as required.
• Working alongside our various PR agencies assisting with the drafting of PR related materials, asset development, co-ordination etc.
• Ad hoc support to the CMO and other duties at the manager’s discretion.

Required Skills:

• Some previous service or marketing experience required.
• Previous marketing assistant experience or equivalent.
• Marketing qualifications preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communications.
• Can do attitude! Willing to get stuck in where needed!
• A passion for games and marketing is a must!

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Flash / ActionScript Developer

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

As a Flash / ActionScript Developer reporting to the CTO, you will develop imaginative and innovative solutions to meet the needs of the game development team.

You will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Working with other team members in an exciting and fun quick moving environment to design, develop and ensure the quality of rich media, web-based applications built with Adobe Flash.
• Advanced problem solving.
• Meeting tight deadlines.

Required Skills:

• Highly proficient with Object Oriented ActionScript 3.0.
• Experienced with the entire Flash product workflow from the Flash IDE through to server side development.
• Confidence in working with a large, evolving codebase.
• Understanding of MVC frameworks and related design patterns.
• Familiar with use of REST and XML for back-end communications.
• Confident working in Eclipse with either Flex Builder or FDT with SVN or similar version control systems.
• Experienced in full lifecycle, team-based development work.

Desired Skills:

• A foundation in C or Java programming.
• Strong communication skills, experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Web and graphics design experience (fully standards-compliant).
• Experience in creating frameworks, templates and documentation for others to use.
• An interest in social networking and game design.
• Experience in Flex RMI to a Java back-end.
• Education in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Experience working in a gaming environment.

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Software Engineer

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

As a Software Engineer reporting to the CTO, you will develop imaginative and innovative solutions to meet the development needs of the engineering and game development teams.

You will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Designing and developing end-to-end client-server solutions across all tiers of the application layer
• Providing business orientated scalability, performance, security and tuning advice
• Participating in and carrying out design and architecture meetings/reviews
• Creating code of the highest quality and rigorous standards
• Documenting code through comments, unit tests and declarative naming
• Considering code reusability and extensibility at every step of the development lifecycle
• Being an active participant in the whole development life cycle
• Being an active member of the daily Scrum meetings
• Being a mentor to junior members of the tech team, and a point of contact regarding software design and the thorough understanding of user stories

Required Skills:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science / Software Engineering preferred
• The ideal candidate will be able to program in Java / ActionScript / PHP / any other language we throw at you
• Ability to produce work in a timely fashion, with a focus on scoping tasks relative to business priorities
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment with test driven development
• Experience working on multiple rapidly developed, high traffic web applications
• Experience working with multiple relational database technologies, preferably Postgresql / MySQL
• Experience working with APIs such as Facebook Developer Platform / Facebook Connect, OpenSocial, OpenID is a plus
• Experience working in data services with large volumes of data is a plus

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.

Business Intelligence Engineer

Salary: Dependent on experience plus excellent benefits including share options
Overview:

As a Business Intelligence Engineer reporting to the Head of Technology, you will develop imaginative and innovative solutions to meet the business intelligence needs of our game design, customer support, engineering and management teams.

You will help us gain valuable insights into all our external and internal software projects related to our rapidly growing multi-player game Moshi Monsters, which will lead to increased KPIs and an improved user experience.

You will need exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail, as well as the ability to adapt quickly in a dynamic environment and integrate with our highly skilled and diverse team.

Responsibilities / Objectives:

• Collaborate with other engineers and teams on key business intelligence technology projects and decision support systems
• Create strong relationships with business stakeholders and game designers to progress new business intelligence initiatives, focusing on changes that lead to increased return on investment
• Develop global reporting systems to support strategic decisions in Mind Candy’s core business
• Design, build, and maintain highly-optimized OLAP systems
• Perform proactive analysis and make recommendations that affect critical technical initiatives

Required Skills:

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science and/or statistics related field preferred
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Working knowledge of industry standard data analysis tools
• Experience programming at least one scripting language such as Perl, Python or Ruby
• Experience in a Java / J2EE environment
• Data warehousing/data modeling/data analysis experience
• Experience with financial reporting systems

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working with social networks, online gaming and children’s properties
• Experience of Postgresql
• Experience of distributed query engines such as Hadoop map / reduce
• Experience of performance tuning database engines
• Experience of Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with Mac OS X
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

For more information/to send in a CV and covering letter, please contact recruitment@mindcandy.com.

No agencies please.