Operations Assistant - Part Time Contract
About The Company
Digital Shamans are professional video game developers and freelance artists, whose common passion is creating art for video games.
We form an outsourcing studio to help developers make their games faster, while raising artistic, emotional and production value.
We concept design and create fully functional, performance friendly 3d game assets and environments.
Also providing assistance in game development itself, accessing project repositories and work in game engines.
In our core is a small, collaborative, quality and self-development oriented savvy team, which consists of both game dev veterans and bold young artists.
We stand strongly about work-life balance and create a bubble of working environment where respect, appreciation and understanding are essential and decisions are being made in respect of our established values. Where every team member is valued for the perspectives and results brought to the table.
Nothing done well is insignificant.
About The Role:
As an Operations Assistant, you will be working remotely as a right hand of CEO and with other team members.
Translating directives to practical, daily operations while being mindful of long-term goals and the vision.
This is a growing and versatile role.
Meaning, it starts as a part-time assisting position and eventually will grow to full-time managerial role.
Your core responsibilities will be keeping communication within the team and clients smooth, making sure deadlines are being kept, helping manage risk of our decisions and strategies.
Evolution of the role assumes that mere assisting in day-to-day business operations, will rapidly grow to being responsible for executing long term vision, goals and ideas by defining strategies and setting interim goals by yourself. Along with ensuring that the policies and procedures are in place.
Responsibilities of a Project and Art Manager performed at first too, will eventually separate to another position.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Core Responsibilities:
- Communicating with clients and the team.
- Assisting in project management.
- Reassuring that deadlines are being met and team members kept accountable.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Helping to turn ideas into reality.
- Supporting in execution of our long term vision and cause by translating it into strategy, goals, tasks and implementing.
- Defining and implementing your own ideas, strategies and practices. It's a playground for all of us.
- Participating in operational risk management.
- Discussing business plans and potential opportunities.
- Taking part in developing procedures, practices, pipelines and the culture.
- Ensuring that existing policies and procedures are being respected and in place.
- Representing our tribe's values, culture and ensuring they are being respected as well.
- Bringing critical thinking to the team.
- Exemplify discipline and organisation.
- Creating documentation of processes for others to follow if needed.
- Creating brief reports summarizing meetings how things go and how everyone is doing.
- Looking for what is not seen.
Personality, Skills and Requirements:
- Critical thinking.
- High conscientiousness.
- Disagreeableness.
- Growth mindset.
- Experience working in video games industry and understanding creative environment.
- Experience working in a start-up.
- Experience working as Operations Manager.
- Experience working in both environments; from office and home.
Additional Information:
- Rare opportunity to take a part in shaping working practices and your own working environment.
- Flexibility in choosing exact responsibilities at early stage of team formation.
- Super friendly small working environment of passionate creative people who have a growth mindset and approach others through understanding.
- Flexible working hours.
We encourage and support continuous professional and personal development, around which our working culture is revolving.
For British residents there is a future opportunity for employment.
How to Apply?
Please apply by sending your application on the address: jobs@digitalshamans.co.uk