Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week of June 4

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In an exciting week for new job postings, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at BioWare Austin, Junction Point Studios and more. Each position posted by employers will appear on the main Gamasutra job board, and appear in the site's daily and weekly newsletters, reaching our readers directly. It will also be cross-posted for free across its network of submarket sites, which includes content sites focused on online worlds, cellphone games, 'serious games', independent games and more. Some of the notable jobs posted this week include: BioWare Austin: Director Of Studio Operations "BioWare is hard at work on Star Wars: The Old Republic, our massively multiplayer online game being developed at BioWare Austin. The Director of Operations will develop, manage and drive the operational groups of the BioWare Austin studio (Finance, HR, IT and Facilities) within the BioWare Group of Electronic Arts. You will partner with and support the studio General Manager and Group Operations Officer by providing financial strategies, resource and staffing allocations, growth plans and IT initiatives to ensure that all employees experience a high Quality of Workplace environment." Disney Interactive Studios/Junction Point Studios: Game Director DIMG core businesses include Disney Interactive Studios, which self publishes and distributes a broad portfolio of multi-platform video games, mobile games and interactive entertainment worldwide; and Disney Online, which produces the No. 1 Community-Family & Parenting Web site and an industry-leading suite of online virtual worlds for kids and families. We are currently looking for a Game Director to work full-time hours in our Austin, Texas studio." THQ Montreal: Executive Art Director "With our recent releases of Darksiders, UFC and Red Faction, we are well on our way to rebuilding THQ as a high quality, craft driven developer of world class games and transmedia properties. A key to this is our recent announcement to build a new 400 person studio in Montreal where we will develop new IP and partner with our existing studios THQ Studio Montreal is a very unique opportunity to get in at the ground floor and help us build a new and successful culture of creativity, innovation and fun." Armature Studio: Senior Game Designer "Armature Studio is located in Austin, Texas and was founded by the key developers of the Metroid Prime franchise. We aim to keep the creative flexibiity of an independent studio while partnering with publishers to create compelling, high quality games. Working closely with the Game Director, the Senior Designer will be responsible for creating and building gameplay systems and scenarios for our upcoming projects. This role will also include managing and directing other designers." Silicon Knights: Level Designer "Silicon Knights is a guild of talented individuals dedicated to creating groundbreaking video games. Located in St.Catharines, ON Canada, silicon Knights proudly ranks as one of the top independent development studios and has a reputation for creating superior original content Best known for Eternal Darkness, Metal Gear Solid: the Twin Snakes and Too Human. We have exciting unannounced projects in development. If you're talented and passionate to create great games, we invite you to apply!" Sony Online Entertainment: Senior Online Game Engineer "Support PlayStation Online Games by developing and supporting in production a high complexity, service oriented application that offers online functionality for PS3, PSP, and PS2 games. The application handles online features such as player login, stats, matchmaking, community features, and chat. It is written in Ruby on Rails and makes use of leading-edge technologies such as Redis and Resque." To browse hundreds of similar jobs, and for more information on searching, responding to, or posting game industry-relevant jobs to the top source for jobs in the business, please visit Gamasutra's job board now.