We (Sparkplay Media) are looking for someone for an office manager and assistant to me, basically. What I want is someone who is really enthusiastic about games, who has general administrative experience and wants to spend a couple years working as part of the team, keeping the office functioning generally and helping to remove administrative work from my plate.

You’ll get a chance to involve yourself in game development as far as your abilities go and time allows, and if you’re relatively untrained we’ll help you learn how to help. Once we think you’re ready, you can train a replacement and move full-time into whatever aspect of game development you showed the most promise at if that’s what you’d like. No game development experience is necessary for this position (though having it is certainly not a negative).

This would, obviously, be an on-site position at our offices in North Beach, in San Francisco. Pay would depend on what experience and skills you bring to the table, but will be reasonably competitive.

The important thing to us is that whoever fills this position is just a very multi-functional person capable of being reliable and who is self-motivated. We want you to look for responsibility to take on and stretch yourself, and, of course, be a cheerleader for Sparkplay.

I’m posting it here rather than on our website first as there may be people out there who vaguely know me through the blog that are interested. Please feel free to refer anyone you think is a good fit too.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide administrative support to the CEO (me) and others as needed, ranging from scheduling travel to booking meetings to light market research to putting together Powerpoint presentations.
  • Keep the physical office running – order office supplies as needed, coordinate deliveries and repairmen, etc
  • Handle general administrative duties – faxing, filing, organizing, and so on.
  • Assist in the processing of hiring, benefits and termination packets.
  • Answer the phone.
  • Help out with whatever game development you can as a secondary priority.
  • Just generally do what you can to help the entire team that you’re part of kick some butt.

Requirements:

  • 2+ years experience administrative work (office manager, administrative assistant, etc)
  • High school diploma or G.E.D.; BA degree preferred.
  • Excellent skills in Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Ability and willingness to learn new software packages.
  • General knowledge of office equipment.
  • Record of stable employment. At least two years in your previous position.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Good judgment; ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Bonus: Better-than-novice Dreamweaver skills (so you can do some very light website updates)
  • Bonus: Game development experience (either amateur or professional)

You need to be legally qualified to work in the US for this position.

If you’re interested send me an email directly to matt (-at-) sparkplaymedia (-dot-) com. To show you’re paying attention, include the word “platypus” in the subject line!