Hello!
It's me, your friendly neighborhood Rebekah Saltsman, CEO and co-founder of Finji, an award-winning hybrid game developer (Usual June, Overland, Canabalt) and publisher (Night in the Woods, Tunic, I was a Teenage Exocolonist) located in Grand Rapids, MI. We are ready to hire a Community Assistant to help with managing our community Discord server.
This is a paid, part-time, fully remote (U.S. only) position that works directly with Finji’s Community Manager and a team of volunteer community moderators. Finji works with a diverse set of collaborators, and folks from under-represented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
We will be accepting applications until Friday, April 12, 2024.
The Job
This role works directly with Finji’s Community & Social Media Manager to assist with moderating, managing, and designing our community Discord server.
Initial Responsibilities
Ongoing Responsibilities
Compensation
About You
You love and are familiar with online communities, especially Discord communities. You think a lot about cultivating communities in creative and fun ways. You take pride in seeing a diverse community thrive in a place you help manage with other thoughtful collaborators. You need to maintain a space that is open and welcoming, and you hold others to that same standard.
You are exceptional at keeping confidential things confidential. You get a lot of joy and satisfaction from working closely with other people, including total strangers. You are a good communicator, and you love to collaborate. You enjoy strategy sessions and value documenting learned lessons. You will speak up if something seems wrong. You are comfortable learning and asking questions and you understand that all jobs have chores and that’s okay.
How to Apply
We’re funneling all interested parties through a new email address. Please include the phrase “finji assistant” in the subject line. We will reply to all serious inquiries in a timely fashion.
What to Submit
You should expect to provide references or letters of recommendation if your application advances.
Final Thoughts
Even if you don’t have the longest resumé, we’d still love to hear from you. We are looking for candidates that like to solve problems in creative ways and who are good at communicating and collaborating. In our …experience, experience doesn’t guarantee those particular qualities.
A majority of Finji staff are from backgrounds under-represented in games, so even if you don't see yourself represented in the game industry at large, this might be a good place for you.
Finji is a hybrid game developer and publisher located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We develop our own original IP and publish games made by small teams from around the world. Our first original IP was Canabalt (2009) and our newest internal project is Usual June. Finji also published several award-winning titles, including I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Tunic, Chicory: A Colorful Tale, Night in the Woods, and Wilmot's Warehouse.
We maintain a creative, collaborative, product-focused environment, where we rely on and can also mentor good communication. We deeply value our collaborators' time and are continually refining our development process to uphold a higher standard.
We will continue to rely on our 10+ years as a remote developer, coordinating our projects through Notion, Slack, and Trello. Our comfort with distributed development makes us especially good at supporting folks who want to travel and work from remote locations for part of the year. As Finji is based in the US Eastern Time Zone, we may ask collaborators from notably different regions to overlap part of their schedule with us in a regular or predictable way in order to maintain a good call routine.
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