Job Sites
Finding paid jobs in gaming (esports or otherwise) is not impossible. It helps when you use some of these useful job sites and databases that others have put together.
Games Industry Gathering
"Great games start with great people, finding steady work shouldn't be a challenge." -Home Page
Cool feature - Games Industry Gathering, or GIG, vets all of their community members to ensure they are actually working in games. They host a huge networking event on the first Friday of every month and GIG has an internal job board that is only visible to community members.
https://games.industrygathering.com/
Discord is invite-only, please apply on GIG's website.
IGDA
"We advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating for the interests of game developers worldwide." -Home Page
Cool feature - IDGA or International Game Developers Association, is so much more than just a career listing resource. IDGA is a professional development membership that is the most recognizable in the industry.
https://careers.igda.org/
https://discord.gg/igda
TheXPlace
"Great games start with great people, finding steady work shouldn't be a challenge." -Home Page
Cool feature - Everyone on the platform is vetted to prevent fraud and harassment — the professionals looking for positions and the game companies hiring. Additionally, TheXPlace offers a bias reduction mode that toggles your identifying information off.
https://thexplace.ai/
Discord is coming soon.
Remote Game Jobs
"Remote Game Jobs is the best job board to find remote work and hire remote talents in the game industry." -Home Page
Cool feature - Remote Game Jobs has a bot that feeds directly into your Discord with job listings. Filters by discipline.
https://remotegamejobs.com/
https://remotegamejobs.com/discord
WIGI
"WIGI works to normalize women, femme-identifying, and nonbinary professionals in the global games industry by eliminating barriers to entry and increasing access to opportunities for everyone. We champion a safe, inclusive, diverse workforce in the video game, tabletop, and esports industries." -Job board
Cool feature - WIGI's job board is just one part of what Women in Games International has to offer to the community. The job board specifically is only trusted partners of WIGI.
https://www.getwigi.com/job-board
Work With Indies
"Work With Indies is a kind job board (with over 150k monthly page views) and inclusive community (with 15,000 members) supporting careers working for and with indie game developers." -About Us
Cool feature - Work with Indies has a bot that feeds directly into your Discord server with job listings. Filters by discipline and only allows Indie companies to post job listings.
https://www.workwithindies.com/
https://discord.gg/workwithindies
Amir Satvat
"Championing game makers, thinking about games, playing games." -Linkedin tagline
Cool feature - Amir is just a regular person with a really big passion for improving the gaming industry. He regularly creates mentorship/mentee spreadsheets, job postings spreadsheets with over 300+ jobs, and a job-looking spreadsheet, and is overall just a great person to follow for a game-related community. While he's not a job board exactly, I do recommend you follow up and network within his community!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirsatvat/