New hires in social gaming: Kabam, Plumbee and Playdom

Hiring in the social gaming industry was up sharply this week, with 12 companies reporting 24 recent hires. According to data from LinkedIn and other sources, Zynga reported the most activity with 10 hires. Despite the flurry of activity, there were no high-profile hires to report this week.

If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please get in touch with us. Email us at: mail (at) insidesocialgames (dot) com, and we’ll get your news into an upcoming post.

If you want to know who else is hiring, the Inside Network Job Board showcases current openings with the industry’s leading companies.

Disney Playdom

Thomas Jung, Art Director — Our hires roundup starts the week off with a promotion for Jung, who was previously a lead concept artist at Disney Playdom.

EA Playfish

Clay Zhong, Software Engineer — Zhong was also a software engineer at Augmentum before joining the Playfish team.

East Side Games

Annie Dickerson, Designer — Dickerson was previously the lead designer at Digido Interactive.

GSN

Jim Otermat, Game Developer — Otermat was a flash developer at 6waves Lolapps.

Kabam

David Dawson, 3D Art Lead – A pair of hires for Kabam. First up is Dawson, who was a lead environment artist / senior artist at Secret Level/Sega.Thomas Baxter, Player Experience Agent — Baxter also works at the University of Colorado.

Kixeye

Evan Jones, Gameplay Engineer — Jones was also a gameplay engineer at 6waves Lolapps.

Kontagent

Sean Po, Software Developer Intern – A promotion this week at Kontagent. Po was previously a Back-end Engineer Co-op at the company.

Loot Drop

Caulder Bradford, Software Engineer – Bradford comes from IQ212, where he was a lead Flash engineer.

Peak Games

Eyup Citci, Software Engineer — Two hires for Peak Games. Citci was a team leader at Mynet.Tolga Firatoglu, Lead Software Developer — Firatoglu starts his career at Peak.

Plumbee

Pablo Varela, Software Engineer — Varela was formerly the director of architecture at EA Playfish.Phillip Runyan, Marketing Consultant — Runyan makes the jump from Double Down Interactive where he was the senior marketing manager.

Social Point

Xavier Manuel Ruiz, Community Manager – Ruiz was previously a Colaborador at RAC 1.

Zynga

Steven Noble, QA Engineer I — Zynga dominates our roundup with 10 new hires.   First up is Noble, who worked in functionality quality assurance at THQ.Jon Weber, QA Manager — Weber was previously the senior manager and scrum master at Avid Technology.Christopher Coster, Senior Software Engineer — Zynga picks up three former 6waves Lolapps employees. Coster was a senior software developer at the company.Hans Park, Concept Artist — Park was also a concept artist at 6waves Lolapps.Tian Han, Software Engineer — Han was a game developer at 6waves Lolapps.Dan Alioto, Art Producer — Alioto comes from enVie Interactive, where he was a producer.John Mathew, Associate Product Manager — Mathew was a software engineer – team lead at L&T Infotech before joining Zynga’s Indian team.Nikhil Kurian, Associate Product Manager — Kurian was previously a DSP software engineer at Analog Devices.Aihua Liu, Software Engineer — Liu comes from Supertech Shanghai, where he was also a software engineer.Pavan Madhini, Content Writer — Finally we have Madnini, who was a management associate at Carpe Diem Marketing in India.

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New hires in social gaming: Disney Playdom, Kabam and Plumbee

Hiring in the social games industry was up slightly this week, with eight companies reporting 14 recent hires. According to data from LinkedIn and other sources, Zynga reported the most activity. The week’s most notable hire went to Peak Games, which brought on Ahmed Alsafar as its director of MMO Games in the Middle East and North Africa.

In related news, former EA Playfish vice president John Earner has joined Plumbee’s advisory board. Earner left EA in January to take a position as an entrepreneur in residence at Accel Partners. Earner is the second Playfish alumni to join Plumbee’s board, following Dan Fiden, Playfish’s former U.S. general manager.

If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please get in touch with us. Email us at: mail (at) insidesocialgames (dot) com, and we’ll get your news into an upcoming post.

If you want to know who else is hiring, the Inside Network Job Board showcases current openings with the industry’s leading companies.

Disney Playdom

Travis Marshall, Associate Producer – Marshall was previously a technical analyst at Diamond Game.

EA PopCap

Miriam Shen, Project Coordinator – Shen join’s PopCap’s Chinese office. She was formerly a production coordinator at Xinhua Sports & Entertainment Ltd.

Kabam

Vivian Han, Analyst Intern – Kabam reports two hires this week. Han was previously the retail marketing supervisor at Nike Sports.Marielle Piccolo, Player Experience France – Italy - Piccolo joins Kabam’s customer service team.

Kixeye

James Bellenger, Server Engineer - Bellenger was previously a  senior software engineer at Redux.

Newtracks

Johannes Zint, Game Designer - Zint starts his career at Newtracks as a game designer.

Peak Games

Ahmed Alsafar, Director of MMO Games – MENA - Peak reports a high profile hire this week with Alsafar, who was formerly the business development manager (MENA & Asia) at Looki Publishing GmbH.Barkin Basaran, Product Specialist – Basaran is fresh from a position as the marketing and communications intern at Mercedes-Benz Turkey.

Plumbee

Ian Morrison, Automated Infrastructure Engineer – Morrison comes to Plumbee after a 10 year stint running IT service company Darq Ltd.

Zynga

Christopher Fortier, Product Manager – Fortier was formerly the chief operating officer at Agora Health Networks.Souvik Mukherjee, Test Lead-QA - Mukherjee was previously a senior QA specialist at K2 Network.Gemma Kelly, Senior CS Manager Zynga Player Advocacy & Service - Kelly comes from a position as the operations delivery manager at Sportingbet.Jagan Mohan, Software QA Engineer - Mohan was previously the senior authoring engineer at Technicolor India Pvt Ltd.Frank Benedetto, Super Moderator - Benedetto joins Zynga’s community management team as a Super Moderator.

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New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: SponsorPay, Spooky Cool, Plumbee and more

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.

Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at SponsorPay, GREE International, Inc., Social Point, King.com, Atari, TinyCo, Addmired, PlayMesh, Spooky Cool Labs, Identified, XMG Studio, FashionPlaytes, Inc., Stealth Mobile Startup, Plumbee, Mobile Deluxe and Game Show Network.

Listings on the Inside Network Job Board are distributed to readers of Inside Social Games, Inside Facebook and Inside Mobile Apps through regular posts and widgets on the sites. Your open positions are being seen by the leading developers, product managers, marketers, designers and executives in the Facebook Platform and social gaming industry today.

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New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Plumbee, 6Waves, Addmired and more

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.

Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Plumbee, Lolapps, Jana, Addmired, IMVU, Funcom, TubeMogul, Inc., Tapjoy and LolGames.

Listings on the Inside Network Job Board are distributed to readers of Inside Social Games, Inside Facebook and Inside Mobile Apps through regular posts and widgets on the sites. Your open positions are being seen by the leading developers, product managers, marketers, designers, and executives in the Facebook Platform and social gaming industry today.

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New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Tapjoy, Plumbee, LolGames and more

The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms.

Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Tapjoy, Plumbee,  LolGames, Jana, IMVU, Funcom, Addmired, Lolapps and TubeMogul, Inc.

Listings on the Inside Network Job Board are distributed to readers of Inside Social Games, Inside Facebook and Inside Mobile Apps through regular posts and widgets on the sites. Your open positions are being seen by the leading developers, product managers, marketers, designers, and executives in the Facebook Platform and social gaming industry today.

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