The Studio:
Paradox Arctic was founded in 2014 by a dedicated team of industry veterans who had spent many years in the business. Their first initiative was to continue developing the “War of” franchise, but focus soon shifted to the Magicka 2 brand - which was successfully launched in 2015 on both PC and console. After a couple of years of working on projects such as Pillars of Eternity on console and Paradox’s multiplayer backend, we have gradually shifted into developing our own games.
Since 2018 we are developing Deep, Appealing and Personal games within the Management genre. Our mission is to grow the fanbase of Paradox Interactive by carving out our own niche of games.
The Team:
Working at Paradox Arctic means becoming part of a family. We take care of each other and we help each other succeed. We believe that a learning mindset and continuous individual development is the key to sustainable growth and success. We are a team of highly skilled industry veterans combined with new talent from other industries. We pride ourselves on our no-crunch-policy. We respect our work-life balance and make our games without overtime. Three words that describe our work process are agile, transparent and informal. At Paradox Arctic, work life is like an RPG. We constantly develop our skills and challenge ourselves to level up!
The Location:
The Paradox Arctic Studio is located in the north of Sweden, in a coastal town called Umeå. Our name Arctic is a reference to the closeness to the Arctic circle. Umeå is a great place if you enjoy the outdoors. Down-hill skiing in the middle of the city is only one of the perks of enjoying Umeå in the winter. Snowmobiling is another. But the city is most beautiful in the summertime when the sun almost never sets and you can enjoy the company of your friends in one of the many open-air restaurants. https://www.visitumea.se/en
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.