The Pokémon Company needs a director of corporate development with NFT and meta universe skills
Japanese company that owns the rights to the Pokémon brand, The Pokémon Company, is looking for a top manager with expertise in non-interchangeable tokens (NFT) and the meta universe.
These are the requirements for the candidate the company has posted in its vacancy.
In addition to twelve years of experience in a management position, the candidate must also have “in-depth knowledge” of Web3, including blockchain, NFT and meta-universes.
At the same time, the future director of corporate development should have connections in the venture capital market with a focus on Web3, the company stressed.
What exactly the candidate needs to know about NFT/meta-universes, the company decided not to specify.
To the successful candidate, The Pokémon Company is offering a salary in the range of $150,000 to $224,000 a year.
The Pokémon Company has previously been in a legal battle with the Australian mobile video game developer over unauthorized use of its intellectual property.
The Pokémon Company was previously in a legal battle with an Australian mobile video game developer over unauthorized use of intellectual property.
The lawsuit was filed against Pokémon Pty, a company that planned to release an NFT video game called PokéWorld.
The copyright holder urged the court to bar the Australian company from using the trademarks on its Web site and social media.
Also, The Pokémon Company International demanded a ban on the release of an NFT game or other digital assets related to its intellectual property.
The court sided with the copyright holder and forbade the Australian company to promote Pokémon products in any way.
Since then, however, The Pokémon Company International has not announced any plans for a market for non-interchangeable tokens.
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- In January 2023, analysts at IT firm ASEC warned that hackers under the guise of the NFT game Pokémon had begun spreading malware. Through fake sites, victims are offered to download the installer of an NFT card game based on the Pokémon universe called PokemonBetaGame.exe. However, in addition to the game, the installer puts NetSupport on the victim’s computer for remote access.
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Accessing the victim’s computer, attackers can steal sensitive information, install other malware, or spread to other devices on the same local network.
The extent of the scheme remains unclear, but we already know that it was first spotted in December 2022.