Keywords Studios

3D Artist

• Create custom real-time visual effects and implement them in-engine using Unreal Engine 5, Unity, or proprietary tools.
• Build high-quality effects for gameplay, environments, cinematics, atmosphere, combat, interaction, destruction, UI/game feedback, and other project needs.
• Create all necessary textures, flipbooks, materials, meshes, simulations, and supporting assets for real-time VFX.
• Maintain clean, readable, well-structured material graphs, Niagara systems, parameters, naming conventions, and reusable effect setups.
• Use tools such as Photoshop, Substance Designer, Blender, Houdini, Maya, EmberGen, or other software as needed to support effect creation.
• Work with complex material setups, Blueprints, scripting hooks, animation events, gameplay triggers, or engine-specific implementation needs.
• Troubleshoot VFX issues in partnership with Technical Art, Engineering, Design, Animation, Audio, and other disciplines.
• Own VFX optimization fundamentals, including particle counts, overdraw, shader cost, texture memory, spawn rates, scalability settings, and platform performance constraints.
• Help ensure effects are readable, performant, and aligned with gameplay needs, art direction, timing, mood, and player feedback.
• Review work from internal artists, partner studios, or external vendors and provide clear, constructive, actionable feedback.
• Help maintain a consistent quality bar across a set of effects, a feature, a level, or a small team pod.
• Support short-term planning by helping break down VFX requests into clear tasks, priorities, dependencies, risks, and definitions of done.
• Proactively identify production risks, including missing gameplay hooks, performance spikes, unclear direction, pipeline gaps, dependency issues, or inconsistent style execution.
• Collaborate closely with Designers, Concept Artists, Art Directors, Technical Artists, Engineers, Animators, Audio Designers, and Producers.
• Support client-facing communication when needed by clarifying requirements, sharing WIP, explaining constraints, and aligning on expected outcomes.
• Contribute to VFX workflow improvements, reusable templates, documentation, libraries, naming standards, or scalability rules when appropriate.

VFX Artist – GameSim

Recruitment

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including CV screening, administering assessment tests (when required), coordinating candidate availability, and scheduling initial interviews.
• Responding to email inquiries from candidates as needed.
• Manage employment documentation and employee movement processes.
• Perform administrative tasks, maintain employee records, and support other Talent Acquisition-related activities as needed.
• Collaborate with various TA team members on various recruitment projects.

Talent Acquisition Intern – Player Engagement

People Operations

• Support the implementation of Workday modules and the continued development of the Electronic Document Management System.
• Handle routine tasks, ensure compliance, manage employee inquiries, and facilitate people processes such as onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, and employee relations.
• Provide responsive and standardised people services to enable the people function to support day-to-day operations effectively.
• Maintain regular updates and data cleanses in Workday.
• Prepare reports and analyze information to identify trends and areas of improvement.
• Manage queries through Workday case management system within agreed service levels.
• Support with changes to Workday's Electronic Document Management System and create necessary documents.
• Encourage the use of self-service tools and portal by all employees and managers.
• Provide administration support for onboarding, offboarding, payroll, and personnel processes as needed.
• Collate HR Policies and templates in line with legislative changes.
• Support staff recruitment processes, prepare contracts, update relevant systems, and manage employee relations matters.

People Advisor

Sales

• Actively participated in client related meetings internally and externally with colleagues from different departments.
• Regular meeting with all contacts in the assigned territory and delivery the information from the catch-ups to the related leaders and team members.
• Work with teammates from different service delivery teams globally to respond to customers’ requests.
• Handle customer complaints and provide a satisfied solution together with the related service delivery team.
• Maintain the assigned customer information in the CRM system.
• Seldomly but possibly to work on client related admin tasks in a certain period of time.
• Other tasks as required by the line manager.

Sales Manager

Video Editor

• Manage creative files and assist in producing low-lift social media assets, including simple video clips, and reformatting content for different social media sizes.
• Collaborate closely with Art Directors, Project Managers, Video Editors, Motion Designers, and Graphic Designers to support the creative process.
• Oversee the asset management process from initial intake to final client delivery, ensuring smooth workflow and organization throughout the project.

Bilingual Assistant Video Editor

Project Manager

• Manage localization projects, depending on workload and team’s needs, involving:
• Text localization
• Audio localization
• Localization QA/testing
• Define project scope, schedules, workflows, risks, and resource requirements.
• Estimate and plan projects from start to finish, with schedules, and built-in contingencies.
• Work with the Lead PM, Senior Production Managers and global team to ensure that the project’s specific workflows and technical processes are well documented and regularly updated.
• Lead project planning process and “kick-off” meetings and ongoing project-related meetings, as needed.
• Coordinate multilingual production pipelines across internal teams and external vendors.
• Work closely with Engage Team, the Lead PM, and the client directly to understand the scope and requirements of each project.
• Advise clients on best practices and agree on project processes and timelines.
• Monitor and coordinate project processes (pre-and post-production plan, postmortems, resources, QA plan, risk mitigation plans, CAPAs etc.) and collaborate with the teams in charge of those different areas of expertise.
• Align with Global Resource Management Team on the projects’ resourcing in order to ensure that projects are resourced, perform according to the project instructions, client expectations, the company's procedures and within target’s project margins.
• Oversee the project schedule, making sure that all parties deliver according to project schedule and company’s standards.
• Continuously manage and adapt the work plan and resources required in consultation and agreement with the client and the rest of global team.
• Work with the company's stakeholders to determine workflow and best processes to maximize productivity and minimize costs.
• Follow the development of the project daily through a quick and efficient communication with the client, receiving and following up on issues, changes in specifications, deadlines, or any other kind of related matters to the project.
• Liaise with external vendors and internal resources involved in own projects, keeping a relationship tending to go beyond a simple supplier-customer relation with the aim of getting vendor's members involved and an important part of the whole creative localization process.
• Keep a constant and open dialogue with the other PMs across accounts, building good working relationships with all the global team members.
• Make independent decisions on work methods to be used on projects, while liaising with the global teams and Lead PM, Senior Production Managers and following established standards and procedures defined by the company and the clients.
• Communicate regularly and professionally with clients, liaising with them to understand their goals and expectations and anticipating/addressing client needs and concerns to prevent issues.
• Escalate and investigate with the Lead PM, Senior Production Managers and corresponding stakeholders any complaints or potential risks to the performance of a project according to KWS standards.
• Escalate risks, blockers, and client concerns appropriately.
• Proactively contribute to process and tool improvement initiatives at all levels (internal or client-facing, local or international).

Localization Project Manager

Platform Engineer

• Design and develop product features that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS.
• Take complete ownership of business driven data management in our primary live database YugabyteDB.
• Identify the gaps and optimize database usage across the product.
• Work with Infrastructure teams to maintain the database clusters (primarily YugabyteDB).
• Stabilize and scale the database infrastructure across the organisation.
• Occasionally lead cross-team projects and collaborate with developers, QAs, and other departments.
• Review others’ code and design.
• Ensure best practices for software development are followed by the team.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes.
• Keep calm and learn every day.

Platform Engineer – III, DB Specialist, YugabyteDB

Controller

• Prepare and deliver monthly management accounts and associated analysis for a studio.
• Balance sheet reconciliations and SarbOx compliance
• Cash flow management.
• Intercompany recharges and reconciliations.
• Preparation of budgeting and forecasting.
• VAT returns.
• Revenue recognition.
• Preparation of statutory accounts and dealing with auditors.
• Acting as a business partner to senior stakeholders to provide performance and commercial analysis.
• Liaising with Shared Services Centre responsible for accounts payable, receivable, and credit control
• Coordinate the preparation of the monthly Management Accounts in NetSuite for the Division.
• Work closely with Studio Heads and UK Finance Business Partner for the Division to prepare monthly Forecast in Tagetik.
• Work closely with UK Finance Business Partner to submit pipeline data for the Division.
• Oversee Budget preparation for all studios in the Division working closely with UK Finance Business Partner.
• Review Balance Sheets for all studios within the Division.
• Review Cash Flows for all studios within the Division.
• Liaise with Audit lead for all audit queries within the Division
• Involvement with all Tax issues within the Division (incl. Corporation Tax, R&D and VGEC as appropriate)
• Oversee Intercompany reconciliations and issues
• Coordinate all Group reporting requests for the Division.
• Authorise Urgent Payment Requests for the Division with SSC
• Authorise Credit Notes for the Division with SSC
• Coordinate holiday and sickness cover within the Division.
• Oversee Floquast implementation within the UK Finance team
• Oversee Workday PSA within the UK Finance team
• Oversee the move to Workday Financials (from NetSuite) within the Team

Lead Financial Controller – Create and Engage Divisions

• Prepare and deliver monthly management accounts and associated analysis for a studio.
• Balance sheet Reconciliations and SarbOx compliance.
• Cash flow management.
• Intercompany recharges and reconciliations.
• Preparation of budgeting and forecasting.
• VAT returns.
• Revenue recognition.
• Preparation of statutory accounts and dealing with auditors.
• Acting as a business partner to senior stakeholders to provide performance and commercial analysis.
• Liaising with Shared Services Centre responsible for accounts payable, receivable, and credit control.

Financial Controller

Human Resources

• Assist in day-to-day HR administrative tasks and documentation
• Help maintain employee records and HR databases with accuracy and confidentiality
• Assist in gathering data and creating reports for various internal and external activities.
• Assist in employee engagement initiatives, events, and programs
• Support the preparation of reports, trackers, presentations, and internal communications materials
• Assist in organizing training sessions and HR-related activities
• Respond to basic employee inquiries and provide administrative support as needed
• Perform other HR-related duties as assigned.

HR Intern

QA Engineer

• As a GBTN Community Tester, you will be invited to participate in paid, "on-call" test sessions.
• Participating in scheduled game tests using your own personal hardware (PC, console, mobile device, VR headset, etc.) and internet connection from the comfort of your home.
• Stress-testing multiplayer servers and online features.
• Evaluating games for user experience (UX), gameplay feel, and balance.
• Identifying and clearly reporting bugs, glitches, and other technical issues.
• Providing detailed, constructive feedback through surveys and written reports.

Community Game Tester, On-Call

Operations

• Ensure the success of projects by leading and motivating teams.
• Act as a bridge between Keywords Studios and clients.
• Create schedules and manage tasks based on client requirements.
• Proactively address project issues to maintain efficiency.
• Conduct regular quality control checks and coaching opportunities.
• Develop training materials and assist in identifying areas for improvement.