CAREERS

Permanent/Full Time
Salaried/Non-Exempt

On the one hand, you’re a dedicated partner to external press and news media, coordinating interviews, previews, and reviews to ensure that Paizo products get the recognition they deserve and the coverage we need to continue to thrive. On the other, you’re coordinating the day-to-day marketing functions behind the scenes, making sure marketing programs go off smoothly.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Arrange & Coordinate Interviews: Manage relationships with tabletop RPG content creators to arrange reviews and interviews with Paizo staff around key releases for Pathfinder and Starfinder.
• Channel Strategy: Execute consumer, distributor, and retailer channel strategies to drive success in each channel. Your primary areas of responsibility includes the Paizo website content, with the addition of some blog, email, and social media content, including coordination of crowdfunding marketing and working with social media influencers on behalf of Paizo.
• Conventions: Attend select conventions on behalf of Paizo to engage with consumers across all of Paizo’s brands and monitor competitive activity.
• CRM: Work with the Marketing and Licencing Coordinator in developing emails that drive success across Paizo product lines and lifecycles. This includes occasionally writing, editing, and sending out for review emails through Dotdigital or similar email platforms.
• Earned Media Relations: Develop an earned media relations strategy for print, digital, broadcast, and other emerging channels.
• Execution of Marketing Plans: Work across business units to build innovative marketing plans that meet company goals and exceed customer expectations. This includes entry and management of tasks through Teamwork and similar software.
• Market Research: Work as a team to conduct astute market research to identify gaps in product, promotional, placement, and positioning strategies. Transform consumer insights into actionable plans that drive success in the business.
• Media & Advertising: Be engaged in the process of driving advertising and proving its effectiveness to the organization.
• Project Management: Drive business activity across departments through planning and managing the tasks necessary to achieve our business goals. Paizo uses Teamwork for this purpose, and self-training is available.
• Copywriting: Write concise and engaging copy for Paizo’s website, email, and social media. This includes metadata, landing page text, ad and promotional copy, etc.
• Press Releases: Write and distribute press releases for key products and announcements that accurately capture the key selling points of the product in an authentic tone that will be embraced by the gaming audience. Write and send out for review press release emails through dotdigital or similar email platforms.
• Reporting: Create reports that provide actionable insights and recommendations for the executive team and other departments.
• Reviewer Management: Identify and engage reviewers of Paizo products that have the reach to get the word out about upcoming and just-released products.
• Voice of the Customer: Represent the customer within Paizo to ensure the best experience for gamers.
• Misc.: Perform other duties as required.

Essential Job Skills

• Ability to build strong relationships with key influencers across a variety of media
• Must be able to work in a team-centered environment, yet be able to finish tasks on your own
• An insatiable appetite for understanding and incorporating consumer insights and analytical data into marketing, acceptance of those things that cannot be measured, and the wisdom to know the difference.
• Experience with social media and social media influencers
• Experience with crowdfunding project marketing
• Must have good organizational skills, the ability to manage time effectively
• Must have the ability to maintain confidential information as such
• Must be self-motivated; willingness to work hard and do whatever it takes to succeed in the job is mandatory
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint, Discord and comfortable learning other software packages
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at a high level of competence
• Physical ability to operate a telephone, computer hardware/software, ability to type, and to sit for extended periods of time
• The job will require rapid adaptation to the large workload and the ability to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously

Supervisory Responsibility

This job does not supervise other employees.

Job Conditions

Travel: Ability to travel away from home (domestic travel only) for up to two weeks at a time required.  This is generally limited to major hobby conventions like GAMA, Gen Con, or PaizoCon.

Overtime: Job might require hours that exceed 8 hours per day and/or 40 hours per week. Weekend and holiday work may be required based on timing of conventions and promotional opportunities.

Performance Evaluations: Two per year in coordination with the Director of Marketing.
Union Information: This position is Union-Eligible

Location

The position is currently 100% remote.  Candidates must be a resident of the state of Washington, Oregon, or Indiana.

Education and/or Experience

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience in an industry related to this job is required.
• Familiarity with the gaming, miniatures, comics, and publishing industries strongly preferred.
• Strong interest in games of all types, including card games, board games, video games, and roleplaying games.
  

Job Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employee and immediate family
• Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and personal days
• Access to company matching 401(k)
• Employee discount on paizo.com
• FSA program for childcare & healthcare
• Bonus eligible

Salary Range

This salaried non-exempt position starts at $42,500

Applicant Information

If you are interested in applying, please send a resume and cover letter to hr@paizo.com

Equal Opportunity Statement

Paizo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Permanent/Full Time/Salaried Non-Exempt

Are you a process-focused bookkeeper who is familiar with publishing and has experience in Accounts Receivable and Payroll? If so, this is an opportunity to be a part of the operations team behind two of the most popular current RPGs in the world: the Pathfinder and Starfinder Roleplaying Games!

This position serves as the accounts receivable and payroll center for a publishing company with several product releases every month for a variety of genres and game over a large SKU list. The Bookkeeper will assist the accounting team in maintaining our financials and in process improvement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Invoice and track customer receivables, including distributor orders and large volume data imports.
• Interact with company-scale customers to resolve outstanding issues.
• Post and monitor customer payments and assist the Controller with collections and customer accounts.
• Perform primary payroll processing with staff backup, including reconciliations.
• Occasionally assist customer service In resolution of Individual customer billing Issues
• Continuously improve and formulate accounting procedures.
• Track and recognize deferred revenue.
• Assist in month-end financial close.
• Assist the controller with inventory tracking.
• Special projects and process improvement on an ad hoc basis.
• Various other tasks as required.
  

Essential Job Skills

• Understanding of US GAAP and internal controls
• Proficiency in QuickBooks Enterprise, Excel, and Word; familiarity with other ERPs a plus
• Previous payroll experience; PayChex preferred
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely (verbal and written) with management, other departments, customers, and business partners
• Attention to detail and awareness of follow-through needs
• Integrity, honesty, high ethical standards, and a willingness to solve problems
  

Supervisory Responsibility

Job has no supervisory responsibility. 

Job Conditions

Schedule: Flexible schedule demanding at least 40 hours a week (or more as deadlines and other duties require) in typical office and/or home office conditions.
Deadlines: All assigned deadlines completed on time.
Overtime: Job might require hours that exceed 8 hours per day and/or 40 hours per week
Performance Evaluations: Two per year
Union Information: Not Union Eligible

Performance Metrics

Accuracy: 95% of resolved work requires no revision
Deadlines: All assigned deadlines completed on time.
Attendance: 90% of all days employee shows up on time.

Location

The position will initially be hybrid, requiring at least three days a week in the office, and will transition to fully remote as you become comfortable in the job.

Education and/or Expertise

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance Is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of accounts receivable and/or bookkeeping experience, preferably in a retail or manufacturing environment involving inventory
• Familiarity with Paizo products and brands, especially Pathfinder and Starfinder.
  

Job Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employee and immediate family.
• Generous vacation, sick leave, and personal days
• Access to company 401k with matching
• Employee discount on paizo.com
• Bonus eligible
• Flexible work hours
  

Salary Range

The salary for this position is $50,000.

Applicant Information

If you're interested in applying, please send a resume and cover letter to hr@paizo.com.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Paizo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

About Paizo INC.

Paizo Inc. is the publisher of the award-winning Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, and Pathfinder Tales novels, as well as board games and accessories. The world of Pathfinder, in which players take on the role of brave adventurers fighting to survive in a world beset by magic and evil, is currently translated into eight languages, and has been licensed for video games, comic books, graphic novels, toys, and apparel. Paizo.com is also a leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world.

Perm/Temp: Permanent
Salary Exempt

Be part of the team driving one of the most popular and thrilling RPGs in the world, along with a host of other exciting products. As a Test Engineer, you will report into the Director of Technology and work closely with the other members of the technology team. The Test Engineer works closely with the dev team to vet and test software features and bug fixes, troubleshoot and document issues, and improve test processes. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, versatile self-starter who is detail-oriented and communicates well.

Ours is a fun and imaginative culture made up of highly creative and smart people that are passionate about the products we produce. If you are an experienced Test Engineer, please apply today!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Coordinate, create and perform tests for software features and bug fixes
• Gather and review information and data related to upcoming software release requirements
• Test new features in our own tools and those of business partners
• Study data gathered during testing and evaluate the validity of the results
• Identify problems with new features, create guided steps for others to reliably reproduce them
• Develop and maintain automated test suites to minimize regressive behavior
• Familiarizing oneself with the workflow and internally developed tools of other departments to maximize software familiarity
• Create lists of deficiencies with new feature builds, repeatedly test new builds until no deficiencies can be identified
• Engage developers with technical explanations of issues, engage non-technical individuals with succinct summaries
• Performs other related duties as required

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Testing Experience - 1 year+ (Required)
• Bug Documentation Experience - 6 months+ (Required)
• Proficiency in automation software - ie: Selenium IDE (Preferred)
• Experience and proficiency in using JIRA and other Atlassian products (Required)
• Familiarity with web UX and accessibility standards (Required)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to discuss bugs in a constructive and positive manner
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or STET certificate of mastery (Preferred)

JOB CONDITIONS

• This is a fully remote position, though applicants must reside in Washington State, Oregon, or Indiana.

SALARY RANGE

This position pays between $47,500.00 - $52,500.00 per year

JOB BENEFITS

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employee and immediate family
• Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and personal days
• Access to company matching 401(k)
• Employee discount on paizo.com
• FSA program for childcare & healthcare
• Bonus eligible

If you're interested in applying, please send a resume and cover letter to hr@paizo.com

COVID-19 considerations:
To keep our employees safe we are currently working from home.