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Freedom from Drudgery At Gaia Online, we believe that happy people are more creative, more productive and easier to work with than miserable people. In this spirit, we've created a fun and comfortable workplace where ideas can flourish like beautiful flowers made of wiggly grey brain bits. We offer free restaurant-catered lunches every day, free snacks, ping pong, video games and plenty of great conversation with Gaia’s carefully selected staff of friendly and interesting people. An Artist’s Dream Job Founded by artists, Gaia Online takes great pride in the quality of its artwork and the top-tier artists who produce it. Whether they work in pixel art and manga illustration, fashion and merchandise design, 3D modeling and texturing, flash animation or any other field, Gaia’s artists work toward one aim: to create a rich, visually entertaining world for our community to live and play in. Our art team works in a casual but hyper-creative atmosphere, where each artist's voice is equally important. Working in close collaboration, our artists constantly push each other to new levels of excellence. An Engineering Marvel Gaia’s engineers represent the vanguard of web development, and every day presents new challenges. Gaia developers deal with unique scaling demands associated with one of the fastest growing sites on the Web; with millions of users and over a billion posts on our forums, our engineers must learn to manage and optimize for unprecedented amounts of data. At Gaia Online, you’ll have a unique opportunity to contribute to a growing framework of code for one of the first large-scale social-networking / MMO applications, and to work on high-profile engineering tasks that get response from thousands of users instantly. An Awesome Product Gaia Online is home to the most passionate community on the web, and it’s easy to see why. Gaia is a new way to use the web: we’re part hangout, part game, part story and part world. We could never maintain such a cutting-edge product without an incredible group of employees. As an employer, we aim to be as innovative as the product we create: we offer excellent benefits, competitive salaries, and a fun, creative work atmosphere. In the business of developing cutting-edge products, creativity is everything. No matter what position we’re filling, from art and animation to engineering to customer service, we look for people with big ideas and the skills to make them a reality. If you’re ready for the creative and intellectual challenge of a fast-paced workplace, there may be a spot for you on the Gaia team.

Freedom from Drudgery

At Gaia Online, we believe that happy people are more creative, more productive and easier to work with than miserable people. In this spirit, we've created a fun and comfortable workplace where ideas can flourish like beautiful flowers made of wiggly grey brain bits. We offer free restaurant-catered lunches every day, free snacks, ping pong, video games and plenty of great conversation with Gaia’s carefully selected staff of friendly and interesting people.

An Artist’s Dream Job

Founded by artists, Gaia Online takes great pride in the quality of its artwork and the top-tier artists who produce it. Whether they work in pixel art and manga illustration, fashion and merchandise design, 3D modeling and texturing, flash animation or any other field, Gaia’s artists work toward one aim: to create a rich, visually entertaining world for our community to live and play in. Our art team works in a casual but hyper-creative atmosphere, where each artist's voice is equally important. Working in close collaboration, our artists constantly push each other to new levels of excellence.

An Engineering Marvel

Gaia’s engineers represent the vanguard of web development, and every day presents new challenges. Gaia developers deal with unique scaling demands associated with one of the fastest growing sites on the Web; with millions of users and over a billion posts on our forums, our engineers must learn to manage and optimize for unprecedented amounts of data. At Gaia Online, you’ll have a unique opportunity to contribute to a growing framework of code for one of the first large-scale social-networking / MMO applications, and to work on high-profile engineering tasks that get response from thousands of users instantly.

An Awesome Product

Gaia Online is home to the most passionate community on the web, and it’s easy to see why. Gaia is a new way to use the web: we’re part hangout, part game, part story and part world. We could never maintain such a cutting-edge product without an incredible group of employees. As an employer, we aim to be as innovative as the product we create: we offer excellent benefits, competitive salaries, and a fun, creative work atmosphere.

In the business of developing cutting-edge products, creativity is everything. No matter what position we’re filling, from art and animation to engineering to customer service, we look for people with big ideas and the skills to make them a reality. If you’re ready for the creative and intellectual challenge of a fast-paced workplace, there may be a spot for you on the Gaia team.