BeamDog Careers and Employment
About the company
- CEOTrent Oster
- Founded2009
- Company size11 to 50
- IndustryInformation Technology
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Narrative Designer
Edmonton, AB
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1 day ago
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Brand Director
Edmonton, AB
$70,000 - $100,039 a year
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24 days ago
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Environment Artist
Vancouver, BC
$20 - $50 an hour
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30+ days ago
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Unreal Engine Programmer
Toronto, ON
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Unreal Engine Programmer
Vancouver, BC
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Unreal Engine Programmer
Edmonton, AB
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Technical Designer
Edmonton, AB
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Producer
Edmonton, AB
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Project Director
Edmonton, AB
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3D Environment Artist
Edmonton, AB
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Project Director in Edmonton, AB
on 13 September 2019
A distinctly "big indie" experience with opportunities to forge our own path
As Project Director, I have a bird's eye view of the operations of the company, and manage a large portion of the studio staff and projects, so my experiences are from the managerial level of the company.
When I joined Beamdog in mid-2018, the company was still in its "Indies Wild West" phase, with existing but not well-defined processes in place, some uncertainty about what the future held, and a few long-time senior staff leaving for new opportunities at a recently-opened competitor studio.
The move to a new office and a significant restructure of the organization, along with the hiring of a few very talented key directorial staff has essentially pushed the reset button on the company, allowing us to revisit everything we were doing wrong in the past, refine, change, and improve the company, pushing us into a much better place from the beginning of 2019, both culturally and organizationally. Under our directorial team, I'm growing and learning every day, and becoming a much better producer as a result.
We've had the opportunity to learn from our (admittedly many) mistakes of the past, and put in place measures to make sure that we're making the right decisions and focusing the right way into the future. In late 2018, I would've been uncertain, but Beamdog of mid-2019 is finally poised to make the leap, after its 10th anniversary, into creation of our own IP, which is underway at the time of writing.
The studio is broadly divided into discrete project groups within the larger entity, led by Project Directors, each working on a different game line. Each group works as a cross-disciplinary unit, with QA, art, programming, design, and production all working as a tightly-knit team to drive our game development effort. We embrace "real" Agile Scrum in our current projects, which is refreshing coming from a background of "Scrummerfall" or "Waterfall with sprints" - It's my personal responsibility to prioritize, but I'm always confident the right work is getting done, and the team is aware of the status of the project and where it's going.
I find that I, personally, as the Project Director across a few separate projects am a little spread thin. I'm responsible for live ops and active development on 7 games, each across up to 8 platforms and a number of distribution channels, but thankfully due to having some solid people working with me in production, and a responsible and enthusiastic team, things still run smoothly.
The teams are collaborative, we have a strong, diverse, fun, and relaxed team atmosphere, and despite being 50 people, we still have the indies familial feel in our interactions. I've had the opportunity to personally build and grow my own team, and everyone is engaged, excited, and driven to make amazing games. The greatest thing about our teams here, for me, is that to Beamdog, we hire on both skill, and confidence that someone is the right fit for our culture, meaning that people here like working together, and we don't get mired in politics or petty nonsense, which I've seen in a lot of places. Everyone from the C-level folks all the way to QA respect each other, and elevate one another.
Overtime does happen, much to my personal regret - it is a failing of my own planning when it does - but overtime for my teams is still "Go home at 7~8:00pm" for most, and those who stay later, do so not because of pressure to do so, but of their own volition, as everyone has a sense of ownership and a desire to do the best they can. We take our work and our deadlines seriously, but as Trent, our co-founder says, "We make video games. If somebody biffs it, nobody dies."
Programmer in Edmonton, AB
on 13 September 2019
A very productive, welcoming work environment that encourages collaboration
Working at Beamdog has been a very pleasant experience. Everyone in the company is very friendly and pleasant to work along side, with a lot of interactions between teams and projects. Teamwork is encouraged through the office and everyone is willing to help each other when questions arise. We have a lot of freedom as to ask to be put on specific task and assignments and are accommodated to the best of management's ability into positions that fits into our skill sets.
Programmer in Edmonton, AB
on 13 September 2019
Flexible and social
Typical day is show up sometime before ten when most convenient, work on games while playing a couple of the games we produce. A have fun and make fun game studio.
QA Analyst in Edmonton, AB
on 13 September 2019
Fun and collaborative place to work
A great place to work, where everyone is encouraged to participate in a friendly team environment. It's nice to work somewhere that you feel valued and not feel like you need to put in an insane amount of additional hours just to keep your job. Management is much more conscious that their employees need a proper work/life balance than at some game development studios that I've worked at in the past.
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I was asked about projects that I had worked on, my management experience, and my engagement with Beamdog's existing games. They asked questions about my game development philosophy, and asked a number of problem solving questions: Hypotheticals about situations regarding conflict resolution and to gauge my understanding of scope and team/project management principles.
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