If you happen to have a PhD and happen to major in some level of ecology, then The Pokemon Company wants you to drop everything and head to Tokyo. Professor Pokemon jokes write themselves, but then they are not far from the truth.
Salary comes with annual bonus guarantees and – unsurprisingly – bilingual fluency in both English and Japanese is highly welcomed. The specific skill set sought by the creators of one of the greatest commercial successes in human history centers around animal and plant life. In other words, yes. They are actually looking for Professor Oak and friends.
Help Pokemon to create more Pokemon
With this doctorate, you get a bonus of one million yen upon arrival, which renews every March. In current USD conversions, that's around $6,300, as reported by IGN. The annual salary alone is set at between six million and ten million yen—US$37,750 to US$62,917. Your mileage may vary on how enticing that sounds, but if you'd be interested in moving to Tokyo, hey. Why not?
There's no mention of game development experience requirements, so it's a far cry from a traditional programming role. Instead, we can assume that these hires will help portray realistic environmental scenarios and/or create brand new Pokémon. With us already over a thousand of these fictional critters and plenty more on the way via next year's recently announced Pokémon Winds and Waves, I can see why it might be high time to get some more votes. Humans can only come up with so many designs, and the ecologically savvy species will have the basic knowledge for all kinds of untapped inspiration.
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Pokemon Pokopia casts protagonist Ditta into a post-human Kanto that has suffered harsh enough environmental pressures for us poor humans to move to flat. For example, ecologists can have a field day career in thinking of other ways to go the extra mile with it all. (Or is it really something extra? We'll see where things land on our very real planet in the coming decades.)
If you're down, you can apply through the Japanese recruitment site HRMOS. Good luck!
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