Lead QA, Yuga Labs

• 8+ years of Quality Assurance Experience, with 3+ years leading QA teams
• Robust leadership experience in a lead QA role within the games industryAbility to lead a test project on a large multi-discipline team in a games as a live service environment
• Ability to translate large-scale and complex cross-discipline goals into cohesive test plans
• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders and to relay complex concepts in a digestible manner
• Ability to set strategic goals, but also hold team members to effective tactical execution
• Experience working with distributed/remote testing teams (spanning multiple timezones)
• Experience working with test automation and tooling solutions

Desirable

• Identify project needs and establish QA best practices and processes that take into account the team's resources, roadmap, and quality standards
• Report on metrics using data to guide action for your team
• Create extensive test strategies and test plans which are owned internally and leveraged across external vendors to test and execute at scale
• Define and drive a sustainable cross-discipline test plan while closely communicating with core project team members
• Hold teams accountable for upholding quality and player impact as a factor in decisions
• Plan and execute a preventative-care strategy with cross-discipline leadership
• Develops sustainable test methodologies and drive accountability and ownership across relevant teams to maintain these practices
• Preemptively assess and mitigate long-term risks in a games as a live service environment
• Build and delegate test maintenance strategies for owned content once it has shipped
• Assess and escalate project-level risks and implement improvements and solutions across cross-functional teams
• Utilize project test coverage experience to work with team to build and maintain technical testing solutions that focus on both short and long term sustainability and scalability

• Stipend for your home office
• Stipend for a coworking space
• Expense tech like hardware wallets
• Remote-first, with an HQ in NYC whenever you need it
• Equity options + ApeCoin
• 401k matching
• Employee referral bonus
• Health, Dental & Vision insurance
• Life & Disability insurance
• FSA
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Flexible PTO + 12 paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Time off for voting/volunteering
• Winter recess week
• Education stipend
• Employee discount program

Total funding: $450m

Yuga Labs is the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, a collection of 10,000 simian cartoonised bored ape NFTs, which is inarguably the most widely recognized set of NFTs to date. On top of this, the company created the accompanying Bored Ape Kennel Club and Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT collections. They also own Otherside (a gamified, interoperable metaverse), and IPS from both CryptoPunks and Meebits.