Toymaker Mattel on Thursday introduced hiring card sport fanatic to assist promote its new Uno sport for £3,500 every week.
The corporate requested candidates to use on TikTok for a place on the part-time publish of “Chief Uno Participant,” reported BBC.
The duties of the place primarily based in New York for 4 weeks beginning in September embrace enjoying the brand new sport, Uno Quatro, for 4 hours a day, 4 days every week.
Candidates have to be US residents and aged 18 or over to be chosen for the job, which pays $4,444.44 (£3,500) every week.
A TikTok video asserting the position had obtained about 9,000 likes – and lots of of replies – lots of them from accounts expressing curiosity. The deadline to use is 10 August.
“We’re continually trying to create new methods for followers to have interaction with Uno – and with the nationwide seek for the first-ever Chief Uno Participant, we’re bringing in-person gameplay to followers in a method they’ve by no means skilled earlier than,” Mattel’s international head of video games, Ray Adler, stated asserting the publish.
The brand new worker can be required to assist create and star in social media posts, give interviews and problem strangers to play the brand new model of the traditional sport, which depends on tiles as an alternative of playing cards.
The candidates should be capable of “sit for lengthy intervals, carry and carry 50 lbs, and arrange enjoying tables & tents on location,” the corporate stated.
The stunt comes after Mattel received plaudits for its success in stirring up pleasure concerning the Barbie film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
However the toymaker can be in want of hits. It not too long ago reported gross sales within the April-June interval of about $1bn (£786m), down 12% in contrast with the prior yr.
Earnings within the quarter additionally slumped to $27m, in contrast with $68m within the earlier yr.