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Job Update 05/15/08
New Position - Senior Software Engineer, Mac team
Blizzard Entertainment's Mac team is looking for an accomplished, skilled developer to participate in the porting and optimization of games for the Apple OS X platform. This position will encompass work across multiple titles, including World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and future titles. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 05/14/08
New Position - Server Programmer - Next-Gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced server programmer to work on its next-generation massively multiplayer game. This position is for a software engineer who will focus on network communication, player interaction across server boundaries, security countermeasures, and new game feature implementation. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position – Senior Graphics Programmer - Next-Gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an experienced senior graphics programmer to work on its next-generation massively multiplayer game. The ideal applicant will be proficient in shader programming and have 3D graphics API experience. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Audio Programmer - Next-Gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented programmer who has experience in audio programming to work on a next-generation massively multiplayer game. This position would work closely with Blizzard Entertainment’s audio department while assisting in other areas of game technology when needed. The ideal candidate would be someone who possesses knowledge of both audio and game programming and has worked on at least one major videogame title. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Senior Software Engineer, Tools - Next-Gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced tools engineer to work on a next-generation massively multiplayer game. The ideal applicant will be proficient in developing powerful toolsets for art and other content creation pipelines. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position – Senior Accountant
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and experienced senior accountant to join our global finance team. This position will focus on administration of Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls and audits as well as the management of all general accounting functions. The ideal candidate would have a solid understanding of accounting, financial, and internal control principles, auditing experience, and a strong background in GAAP. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 05/09/08
New Position – Organizational Development and Training Coordinator
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an organizational development and training coordinator to work in our human resources department. The ideal candidate has strong administrative experience in an office environment and a willingness to be flexible with miscellaneous tasks that may be assigned at the last minute. This position will report to the global manager of organizational development and training. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 05/05/08
New Position - Senior Server Programmer
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced server programmer for the World of Warcraft live team. This position is for a senior software engineer who will focus on network communication, player interaction across server boundaries, security countermeasures, maintenance, and implementation of new features for the live team. The senior server programmer will lead the development of server architecture and implementation for World of Warcraft, and will lead a small group of programmers to accomplish various server programming tasks. For more information, check out the job posting.

French Language Tester
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for intelligent and highly motivated multilingual game testers to help test our games in French. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 04/30/08
Additional Events on University Relations Calendar
We're looking to broaden our reach and work with more universities. We've recently added more events to our list -- check out the University Relations webpage to see where we’ll be in the next few months.

New Position – Director, Creative Development
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an exceptional individual with experience managing and leveraging franchises, leading myriad, simultaneous, and wide-ranging projects, and fostering a high-powered, diverse, and intensely creative team. This person will be responsible for leading and managing the creative development department and its component teams – publishing, licensed products, art services, and asset services. For more information, check out the posting.

New Position - Senior Producer, Creative Development
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a highly organized individual with outstanding communication skills and proven experience in project management to help maintain and improve the efficiency and focus of Blizzard Entertainment’s creative development department. We're looking for individuals who have a proven track record of shipping AAA products in a senior or lead producer role. For more information, check out the posting.

Job Update 04/25/08
New Position - Associate Producer, Battle.net
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and enthusiastic associate producer to join our Battle.net team in Irvine, California. Battle.net is an online gaming service enjoyed by millions of Blizzard Entertainment gamers around the globe. The associate producer will be responsible for coordinating, tracking, and managing activities of software developers to ensure that projects are completed on time. Enthusiasm and flexibility in working on a variety of projects are necessary. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position – Telecom and Audio/Video Administrator
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an experienced telecom and audio/video administrator to maintain various phone, audio, and video systems in our Irvine, California offices. A successful candidate will have a strong customer service focus and will demonstrate the ability to work independently as well as to function effectively as part of a team. The candidate should also be detail-oriented with solid documentation skills. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 04/21/08
New Employment Opportunity - Tools Programmer
The StarCraft 2 team is seeking a Tools Programmer. The ideal applicant will be proficient in developing powerful toolsets primarily for art pipelines, but also for code, design and audio pipelines. For more information on this position please check out the posting here.

Job Update 04/17/08
New Position - Associate Software Engineer
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an associate software engineer to join the mobile team of our online technologies department. The ideal candidate would possess a strong passion for programming. Blizzard Entertainment offers a fun, creative, and technically challenging environment with excellent compensation and a full range of benefits. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Posting - Database Programmer - Next-Gen MMO
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an experienced programmer to develop and maintain customer-facing database projects for a next-generation MMO. Responsibilities include coordinating with other departments (web, network operations, etc.) during the development and deployment of future database-related projects and developing internal tools for server/data administration and reporting. For more information on this position please take a look at the job posting.

Job Update 04/14/08
New Position - Senior Data Analyst
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a senior data analyst to join our business intelligence team. The ideal candidate will be a good communicator and have the technical expertise to support projects that require heavy data-crunching and applying statistical techniques. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 04/10/08
New Position - Data Analyst
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a data analyst to join our business intelligence team. The ideal candidate will have solid analytical skills, good knowledge of data warehousing and reporting, and programming skills for ETL maintenance and enhancement of stored procedures. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Associate Producer, Business Intelligence
Blizzard Entertainment seeks an enthusiastic associate producer for our business intelligence group. The ideal candidate will have a business analyst background and familiarity with data warehouse and business intelligence environments. The associate producer will be responsible for liaising with leads of all departments, including executive management, and prioritizing reporting and analytics requests. The candidate will need to be able to translate business requests into technical requirements, and to present results both orally and in written format at a level appropriate to the target audience. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 04/07/08
New Position - Online Community Representative
Blizzard Entertainment is seeking an outgoing individual to provide assistance to our players via the World of Warcraft forums. An ideal candidate would be creative, self-motivated, conscientious, and detail-oriented, with excellent spoken and written communication skills. This person would be able to offer consistently attentive, high-quality customer service in a fast-paced environment. He or she also would be very familiar with game forum dynamics and the massively multiplayer online game genre. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Associate 3D Artist
The StarCraft II team is looking for an associate artist skilled at creating models and texture maps for characters, objects, and natural environments. A solid grasp of form, color, and light for both 2D and 3D art assets is essential. The associate artist must have a skill in another art task as well (illustration, modeling, texturing, animation, or concept drawing) and be well-versed in related tools - 3ds Max, Photoshop, etc. The ideal candidate works well in an environment of peers who are passionate about making great games. For more information, check out the posting.

Job Update 04/04/08
New Position - Associate Editor
Blizzard Entertainment's public relations team has an immediate opening for a skilled and experienced associate editor. In addition to writing and editing a wide range of texts -- from press releases to FAQs to web posts (such as this one) to internal and external emails -- the associate editor will interface with other teams within Blizzard to help develop and support the company's overall communications-related objectives. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Assistant Editor
Blizzard Entertainment's public relations team is looking for the right candidate to fill the role of assistant editor. This person will be responsible for epic amounts of writing, rewriting, reviewing, editing, and more editing, so if you've got a passion for games and language and the intestinal fortitude to deconstruct and reconstruct press releases, FAQs, news posts, and other public messaging day in and day out, then this might be the perfect job for you. For more information, check out the posting. job posting.

Job Update 04/03/08
New Position - Russian Language Tester
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for intelligent and highly motivated multilingual game testers to help test our games in Russian. For more information, check out the job posting.

New Position - Mandarin Chinese Language Tester
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for intelligent and highly motivated multilingual game testers to help test our games in Mandarin Chinese. For more information, check out the job posting.

Job Update 03/31/08
New Position - Licensing Manager
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a licensing manager to support all potential and existing licenses by serving as the primary liaison and managing the day-to-day relationships with all licensees. The ideal candidate has brand/product-management experience with an emphasis on inbound and outbound licensing. For more information on this position, please take a look at the job posting.

Job Update 03/26/08
New Position - Senior Software Engineer, Battle.net
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and enthusiastic network programmer to join our Battle.net team in Irvine, California. This person will develop and improve technologies that service millions of gamers who enjoy Blizzard Entertainment games including World of Warcraft and the Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises. For more details on this position please check out the job posting.

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