Remote Game Jobs

My team at Jackbox is hiring! We're looking for folks who are extremely comfortable in UE5, and have interest in joining a small (but growing!) team. Having excitement for making silly party games is also a plus :] Senior World Artist - https://lnkd.in/gZ28fZcZ Senior Technical Animator - https://lnkd.in/g8iuyVC7 Principal Unreal Engineer - https://lnkd.in/gNg4Beeu Jackbox is also fully remote! But does have some restrictions on states. Details listed in the posted roles. Happy to help answer any questions too!

What Happens After You Make That Termination Decision Just in case you did not know, here is what happens to the people you cut in games after you make that termination decision. Over two-thirds of them, in our community, report having less than six months of savings. One in four say they have none. Nearly half experience a "meaningful decline" in mental health within several months, based on our community polls.. About 30 percent are still unemployed a year later, based on our community data. For professionals over 50, the odds are far worse. Fewer than five percent of games roles today are held by people above that age. Once cut, many never return, not for lack of talent, but because algorithms and bias render them invisible. It quietly ends their careers in games, or at all, entirely. Among those who do find new work, more than half take a pay cut. A third or more have left games entirely, unable to find a path back over these last three years. Not to mention those terminated multiple times or their partners also terminated. And for many others, survival replaces purpose as they take whatever work they can find just to stay afloat. Behind every number is a person who once helped build the worlds others escape into and now struggles to stay in their own. People who poured nights, weekends, and years of creativity into launches that defined this industry. We need to be honest about what these decisions really mean. It is not just right-sizing. It is missed rent payments. Families losing healthcare. People who stop identifying as creators because they no longer feel they have a place to create. It is individuals who are never quite the same again. The distance that often exists between those making these decisions and those affected makes it easy to forget the human cost, which is why it must be said plainly. I privately assess every organization I observe on how they treat staff, using engagement, transparency, and most importantly what employees themselves tell me. Some leaders have faced impossible situations and responded with empathy and integrity. Their actions deserve genuine respect. Others have chosen indifference during peaks of profitability, cutting people without access or explanation, leaving them locked out overnight with a form letter. In those moments, what is destroyed is not only a job, but often confidence, identity, and stability for entire families. I do not live in a fantasy world. I sat through the same business school classes you did, both in undergraduate and graduate, and I have lived it for more than twenty years. Sometimes cuts are unavoidable because an organization literally has no money left or needs to reduce expenses to remain an ongoing concern. But when they are not, we owe it to people to pause and consider what we are truly doing. To internalize what this really costs. If profitability is achieved by breaking so many lives, often permanently, we need to ask ourselves who we have become.