The Studio
Harebrained Schemes Studios is centered on deep collaboration between seasoned veterans and fresh talent who share a passion for crafting game worlds and delighting our audience. We focus on creating strategy games that will disrupt the market with an innovative blend of tactical gameplay and emotionally powerful storytelling. HBS games challenge your mind and touch your heart. Founded in 2011, we are best known for our award-winning games including Shadowrun Returns (2013), Shadowrun: Dragonfall (2014) and Shadowrun Hong Kong (2015). After working with Paradox Interactive as our publisher for our latest release of BATTLETECH, we became an official member of the Paradox family in 2018.
The Team
Our studio offers the opportunity to make amazing game experiences with co-workers who are just as passionate as you about making games. With easy access to studio leadership and small teams of 20-35 members, individuals are encouraged to have a growth-mindset and are given the ability to make a significant impact on the projects they work on. We strive for a work-life balance with a Work-Family that doesn’t replace your Family-Family, and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.
The Location
The studio is located in Kirkland WA, an ideal location to take advantage of both the city of Seattle and the surrounding Puget Sound area. With gamer-centric offerings like PAX West, Geek Girl Con, Emerald City Comic Con, and video/board gamer lounges, as well as a best-in-class restaurant scene, day trips to the mountains or islands, and terrific coffee on every corner, it’s a great place to work and live! http://harebrained-schemes.com/
Our Culture
We’ve built our culture on three pillars that function as bedrock.
Nerdiness:
We celebrate our nerdiness, and invite others to experience it.
Trust:
We face challenges together by placing trust in each other.
Ownership:
We own up to our decisions, dare to try, and learn from the past.
Working at Paradox
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Continuous personal development
To make and sell fantastic games we focus on continuous professional development of our employees. Education, career development and impact on decision-making are part and parcel of this endeavor.
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Freedom & Responsibility
Your contribution will count and you’ll see direct results of your input in our final products.We provide you with freedom in how to tackle ambitious goals and we strive to work in small autonomous teams where you have an impact on the decisions taken. However, we also expect every employee to be responsible for their work and the decisions they make.
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Explore, bond and be well
Our culture centers around the games we make and the bonds we form between the people who make and play them. In our experience, a healthy dose of nerdiness is often central in this, no matter what form it takes.
We encourage employees and teams to explore their nerdiness and connect with one another within and (if they wish) outside the company - be it in our strong board game and TTRPG community, over painting miniatures, in book circles, over karaoke, at our social gatherings and of course over video games. How far down the rabbit hole you go is up to you, nothing is mandatory.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.
We strive for a good work-life balance for all employees and prioritize their personal well-being.
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Masters of our fate
We have stable long-term owners with skin in the game, decision making close to the games and the players and are stably self-financed, without debt. That gives us full ownership and control of our development. Our success or failure is up to us.
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Compensation
We offer competitive monthly salary and salary revision once per year with participation in our company wide profit share program.
You will be given 5+1 weeks of paid vacation per year. For international hires, we will provide relocation assistance (Visa application, Initial Home Finding, Settling in Service, and your flight).We offer flexible work hours, an open office environment and we encourage sharing and learning from each other.
It goes without saying that you get full access to our Steam catalog and the chance the play games that are still in development.