Which Video Game Job Board Would Work for You? Find the Best Talent Within Your Budget!

Investments in new gaming businesses are always high-risk—and no matter how great of an idea you enforce, your results are as good as your team.

If you have budget and time constraints, searching for niche talent on general job board sites can be counterproductive. A video game job board puts you in the right ecosystem for cherry-picking skilled staff to fine-tune the multiple stages of game development and marketing.

There are over a dozen game industry job boards around, but many of them haven’t been too active of late. We have compiled a list of the 11 best video game industry job board sites to help you make an informed choice in terms of price and exposure.

Check out crisp assessments of these job boards below.

#1 GameJobs.co

GameJobs.co is your ultimate no-frills, ad-free job listing site for anything gaming. If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you must remember the insanely popular job board—OrcaHQ—that shut down in 2018. GameJobs.co uses the same domain address, design, and functionality as OrcaHQ, which lends it huge cred in the gaming community.

Once you sign up on GameJobs.co, you can post jobs and internships for free, although your post will be competing with roughly 18,000 other listings on the site. GameJobs.co allows narrowing down searches by different criteria like employment type, recency, and location, but there is no way to make a particular post more attention-grabbing. With dozens of new jobs being added every day, your post would lose visibility pretty quickly.

You can easily skim through candidate profiles on the website and reach out to anyone you’re interested in for free, but don’t expect any hiring support or ATS integration features. The website’s UI is quite convenient.

#2 Grackle HQ

Grackle HQ offers a free service of compiling and hosting published gigs in the industry. The website already tracks job listings posted on the websites of major gaming companies, talent agencies, and job boards worldwide.

If your company’s website is not on Grackle HQ’s radar, you can email them a request at contact@gracklehq.com. In case you don’t have a website, create an account and post and manage jobs for free. The drawback is that you cannot write a detailed job description on the website—it only lets you add basic info like:

1. Job title and company name
2. Department (art, design, human resources, community management, etc.)
3. Compensation type (hourly, monthly, etc.)

All users of Grackle HQ (candidates and employers) have the same account features. While there are many candidate-friendly features, like job alerts and easy sifting through the listings without any ads, employers get absolutely nothing towards hiring support. There are no candidate profiles to view or direct messaging features.

The latest postings (one-day-old posts) always top the results. You can use Grackle HQ’s Discord community and their dedicated #industry-chat channel to connect with about 250 jobseekers.

#3 XP Game Jobs

XP Game Jobs has a simple sign-up process for posting jobs related to game-based:

• Design and UI
• Operations
• Marketing and community
• Administration (including finance and legal roles)
• Programming and engineering
• Art
• Production

Your post will be competing for attention with over 10,000 listings from 160+ recruiters on average. You can opt for:

• Free posting—Your job won’t be promoted
• Medium boost—$50; job tops lists for 3 days
• Turbo boost—$100; job tops lists for 30 days

The website currently offers a 50% discount for Medium and Turbo options. The UI looks optimized, but the website tends to glitch occasionally. The employer dashboard is clean and contains a resume-filtering feature.

As for the job search, your visibility would be good. The primary search tab includes job title and location options, but the results can also be skimmed by decent filters like remote availability and salary range. 

#4 ArcadJobs

ArcadJobs is a community-driven remote job board that has been operating since late 2019. Post a job for $27, and it gets:

1. A 60-day listing on the website
2. Entry in the website’s Featured section for 2 weeks
3. Emailed to more than 3,000 subscribers of the community
4. Tweeted to ArcadJob’s 1,000+ Twitter followers

If you want to post multiple jobs, email hello@arcadjobs.com for a bulk quotation.

There are no candidate profiles on ArcadJobs. All applicants contact you directly via email.

The website developers also operate an active Discord server with a dedicated #jobs channel. You need to place a separate request on the website’s community page to get the Discord invite, which is open to everyone.

#5 Work With Indies

If you’re looking for a well-reviewed indie game job board, you can consider posting on Work With Indies. Founded in 2020, the website has built up a reach of 50,000 developers, design artists, creative writers, and marketers in a short time. 

All job postings on Work With Indies are live for 45 days. There’s no sign-up hassle. You’d be competing with about 500 other studios to attract talent. The website has a pay-what-you-can model (and a money-back guarantee) with the following minimum thresholds:

1. $49 per job for startups
2. $99 per job for growing businesses
3. $199 per job for thriving companies

An added benefit is the website allows you to cross-post listings on over 700 additional Discord groups. As for candidates, while they don’t have to create profiles, they can only view jobs by department, so older jobs may not be readily visible.

#6 Remote Game Jobs

Remote Game Jobs is a job board for video game companies seeking 100% remote workers. You don’t have to create an account—pay $29 to get a job listed for 45 days and featured in the website’s daily newsletter. Those with multiple listings can get up to a 25% discount and be featured on the social media networks and Discord servers of Remote Game Jobs. All payments have to be made via PayPal.

The website has traffic of thousands of jobseekers every month, who can sort out vacancies by category, skill, and employment type. Similar to ArcadJobs and Work With Indies, Remote Game Jobs also doesn’t offer candidate profiles or sorting facilities to recruiters.

#7 Games Jobs Direct

Games Jobs Direct is a supremely organized and popular job board with a pool of over 105,000 candidates. Their basic plan starts at £220—you get one job credit, your listing stays active for 60 days, and the overall plan validity is 18 months. You have to pay an extra £45 for resume downloads during the plan period. The company dashboard has branding-friendly features.

If you opt for their unlimited plan worth £1,200 quarterly, you get:

• Unlimited job credits and resume downloads
• XML feeds
• Featured and promoted as a Hot Studio or Hot Agency on the website’s homepage

Games Jobs Direct is a go-to board for both AAA and indie studios looking for top-class CV-filtering support. You can create CV alerts or get auto-generated matches. The website also offers consultancy services from an in-house marketing team.

#8 GameJobs

GameJobs lets you post a job for $299, $320, and $405, depending on the level of exposure you seek. The website partners with other tech and creative job board networks to increase visibility for your listings.

GameJobs enables candidate-searching from a repository of 1.6 million resumes, but you need to pay an additional $49 to view one or send an interest request.

The website also offers professional employer packages (starting from $2,995 quarterly) for unlimited:

1. Job posting
2. Resume downloads
3. Candidate contacts

It’s easy to customize your company details on GameJobs, and you can also opt for their networking packages for banner ads and similar advertising benefits. The website enjoys good cred in the video and computer game industry because it’s backed by popular non-profit partners and affiliates like the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA) and International Game Developers Association (IGDA).

Any job posted on GameJobs would be competing with 5,000+ other listings. Candidates can find your job by keywords, job function, and location only, although the search results are often cluttered with ads.

The site’s resume bank could be improved. Many resumes are imported from partner sites, so search results tend to be bombarded with a few irrelevant results, such as teaching assistants and delivery drivers.

#9 GameDevJobs.io

GameDevJobs.io isn’t just a game developer job board—you can post jobs for all roles in the industry. You can post a job for free or opt for a 30-day highlighted listing for $99. Paid job listings are:

• Advertised on social media
• Highlighted in email alerts
• Shared on partner job boards

You won’t have candidate profiles or hiring support—applicants will contact you directly via email.

The website’s search feature isn’t too sophisticated, but jobseekers can get curated lists of jobs according to:

• GPS location
• Desired job title

Many job tags lead you to an error screen, but refreshing the page generally fixes the issue.

#10 GameJobHunter

GameJobHunter has been around since 2007 and has a steady base of daily users looking for remote or on-site positions. You get to post your first three jobs for free after you sign up. Once you’ve exhausted them, you can choose the paid plan—$99 for unlimited job posting for 45 days.

Job visibility on GameJobHunter is decent. The job board gets about 43,000 visitors per month. Listings are also cross-posted on GameJobHunter’s social media handles, which have a reach of over 6,000.

The search feature for candidates is clean and simple, and the website also offers a Job Scanner tool, which essentially sorts game studios and active jobs by city. Most applicants prefer applying for jobs in the same city.

It’s super easy to set up a company profile on GameJobHunter. While you can add more team members to the employer panel, the facility is a bit unnecessary because there’s no option to view or sort resumes.

#11 CreativeHeads

CreativeHeads is an award-winning marketing communications agency controlled by Pole To Win, a popular video game services company operating for over 25 years.

Posting a job on CreativeHeads starts at $375. The website gives you a reach of 150,000 visitors and 500,000 newsletter subscribers, while they have a repository of over 100,000 resumes. You have to go for one of their unlimited plans (starting from $500 per month) to get access to candidate databases and filtering facilities. You can also customize a job-posting package by contacting their sales representative.

Based on the kind of listings dominating the website, CreativeHeads is more suitable for advertising artistically inclined roles related to multimedia, conceptualization, and production design in video games.

Picked a Video Game Job Board? Be Prepared for All Hiring Challenges

It’s crucial to have realistic expectations before you post listings on video game job boards or even on forums and professional networks like LinkedIn. While they give your post the necessary exposure, you still have to do the basic legwork, which includes evaluating candidates. Sure, many job boards help you sort through resumes or get the best matches, but CV screening or interviewing isn’t conducive to hiring the best talent anymore, especially when the availability of vacancies in this sector is unpredictable and everyone is desperate for a job.

According to Robert Sher, a top leadership strategy contributor for Forbes, pre-hire testing is the best strategy to determine the suitability of a candidate. Researchers from Harvard Business Review also found skill testing (also called cognitive aptitude testing) to be far more effective in predicting job performance than experience or personality tests.

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AAA game studios have elite (and pricey) application tracking software (ATS), expert hiring managers, and multi-level tests that help them zero in on the perfect candidate. Many top recruiters in the industry have especially emphasized the importance of ATS.

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Unfortunately, manual application tracking and testing get excruciating for small-time studios. You screen and interview candidates and get them on board only to find them failing at what’s required of them—but again, if you exhaust all your time and energy on testing candidates for different roles, won’t your project end up taking a backseat?

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