Snowman is a small game studio at the centre of artful experiences. Whether as a developer or creative partner, our goal has always been the same: to create meaningful experiences that you may sit with for a short time, but that sit with you for a long while.
Snowman is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Snowman welcomes all races, religions, genders, countries of origin, and sexual orientations.
Current Openings
Front-End Web Developer and Designer
We’re looking for a detail-oriented, passionate Front-End Web Developer & Designer to work with us!
If you’re someone with a great eye for design, are motivated by creating beautiful, seamless web experiences, and are great at meeting deadlines, we’d love to hear from you.
Note, this is a 3-month, full-time, externally contracted remote position.
What you have:
- 5+ years of experience designing beautiful, user-friendly websites on desktop and mobile
- Deep understanding of design with an incredible attention to detail and impeccable standards
- The ability to execute and iterate on an existing vision while adding your own flare and aesthetic
- Great communication and collaboration skills
- Can flourish without micromanagement
- Understanding of good branding, marketing and design
- Exceptional communication skills and are fluent in English
Responsibilities:
- Design, program, and deliver a customer-facing website from initial design to final deployment
- Build a beautiful, reactive site for desktop and mobile
- A taste for fast and light, standards based, few dependancy, and static pages
- Comfortable with incorporating video and animation
- Final site should be simple to deploy HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other static resources (not 17 layers of templates, frameworks, and abstractions)
You’ll be working with a small but world-renowned team based in Toronto (but we welcome applicants from all over the world—this is a remote position). At Snowman, we’re flexible on daily hours, working from home when required, and we’re not micromanagers–we want you to be empowered to make decisions on your own. Experience, talent, and drive are more important than fancy school degrees.
All applicants must include a portfolio of work in order to be considered.
3D Artist
We’re looking for a 3D Artist to help craft a new game at Snowman in downtown Toronto.
You’ll be joining a small collaborative team where you’ll work closely with our Lead Artist and Level Designers to craft beautiful, optimized worlds. This is a contract position concluding in May, 2022. The role is full-time and onsite with occasional opportunities to work from home. Please note that during COVID-19 times we're completely set up for remote work for the safety of our team.
Skills
- Great understanding of asset optimization
- Can create clean and efficient low-poly models, UVs and textures while keeping in mind design and tech constraints
- Excellent understanding of colour theory, lighting and composition
- Good knowledge of Unity game engine is preferred
- Ability to work efficiently under short deadlines
Responsibilities
- Work with the Art team to model and texture stylized 3D environments and props
- Translate 2D concepts into efficient 3D assets without compromising on the art style
- Self motivated with the ability to create assets with minimal concept art and direction
Requirements
- Excellent communication skills and open to feedback
- 2+ years experience as a game artist
- 2+ years experience with Autodesk Maya and Adobe Photoshop
- Based in Toronto, or willing to relocate
- Must be able to legally work in Canada
Bonus - It’s nice to have, but not required
- At least 1 shipped (non-student) title, preferably in Unity
- Experience with creating assets for mobile games
- Broad interests and artistic sensibilities
Please apply with your resume and portfolio including samples of stylized and non-realistic environments/props. All qualified candidates must pass an art test as part of the interview process for this position.
Game/Level Designer
We’re looking for a designer to help craft a new game at Snowman in downtown Toronto.
You'll join a small, tight-knit team and be responsible for authoring much of the game's content. The lion's share of the role will have you designing and implementing levels based on established rulesets, but there will be time initially to contribute to the design of these rulesets together with our Lead Designer and Creative Director. This is a contract position concluding in June, 2022. The role is full-time and onsite with occasional opportunities to work from home. Please note that during the COVID-19 pandemic we're completely set up for remote work for the safety of our team.
Skills
- Strong understanding of level design principles and theory
- Knowledge of Unity Engine native tools and interface
- Experience in C# scripting for Unity
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and script levels using level editor and custom tools
- Conceive level goals and rulesets based on overarching design direction
- Collaborate with creative director and level designers to bring the game’s vision to reality
- Collaborate with environment artists to ensure that the playability and visuals work in harmony
- Document, prototype and perform extensive playtests and iterations for created content
Requirements
- Experience creating 3D levels
- Portfolio containing Level Design examples
- Based in Toronto, or willing to relocate.
- Must be able to legally work in Canada.
Bonus - It’s nice to have, but not required
- Experience programming in C#
- Knowledge with professional 3D modelling software
Please apply with a resume or portfolio. All qualified candidates must pass a design test as part of the interview process for this position.
Community Coordinator
We’re looking for a multi-talented Community Coordinator to support our bustling indie game studio in Toronto. This role is part administrative within the studio’s internal community, and part engagement with the external communities of our games.
If it’s in your nature to take care of people, build relationships, and are motivated by organizing many moving parts, this role is made for you. You’ll help our studio run smoothly by keeping tabs on the small details that matter, and have lots of opportunities to learn and grow.
What you have
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Extremely strong organization and multi-tasking skills and the ability to juggle many projects at once
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to adapt to multiple styles
- Strong understanding of social media platforms and practices
- Confident self-starter who can work independently and flourish without micromanagement
- Patience for last-minute tasks and happy to go with the flow when things pivot
- Incredible attention to detail
- Fluent in English (other languages a plus)
Responsibilities
- Manage studio-wide support for multiple games, projects and merchandise across email and social media
- Handle all merch-related support and projects
- Have your finger on the pulse of our online communities and engage with players regularly
- Coordinate and book studio-wide events, meetings and travel *
- Organize and oversee the day-to-day in the office, including managing supplies, hardware and software, office space, etc. *
- Assist with social media management as needed
* Please note that our office is currently closed due to COVID-19 and some office tasks will be paused. During this time, you will help keep us organized and connected as we continue to work remotely.
Bonus - It’s nice to have, but not required
- Knowledge of the games or entertainment industry
- An interest in great design, copywriting and creative media
- Experience with Apple’s platforms (iOS/tvOS/macOS)
At Snowman, we’re flexible on daily hours, working from home when required, and we’re not micromanagers—we want you to be empowered to make decisions on your own. Experience, talent, and drive are more important than fancy school degrees.
Apply with a resume and cover letter telling us something we won’t find on your resume.
Applicants must legally be allowed to work in Canada.