Early Career
Build experience, learn from skilled teammates, and explore opportunities to grow into a long-term career.
GameTime Careers
Build products that bring communities together.
GameTime careers connect people to meaningful work in play, recreation, and outdoor spaces. We’re currently highlighting manufacturing and factory opportunities at our Fort Payne, Alabama facility.
Careers With Purpose
Do work that supports healthier, more connected communities.
As part of the PlayCore family of brands, GameTime helps create play, recreation, and outdoor spaces that serve people of all ages and abilities. Whether you work in manufacturing, operations, sales, design, service, or support, your work helps communities create places where people can move, gather, and play.
Career Opportunities
Find a path where your work can make an impact.
GameTime career opportunities may include hands-on manufacturing roles, early career opportunities, and professional positions across teams that support customers, products, and communities.
Manufacturing
Support quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through hands-on work that brings GameTime products to life.
Professional
Contribute through roles in areas such as sales, marketing, finance, information technology, human resources, customer support, and operations.
Culture and Values
People are at the heart of the work.
PlayCore’s careers message centers on people, collaboration, new perspectives, and shared purpose. At GameTime, that means working with teams who care about quality, service, and the communities our products support.
- Work with people who bring practical ideas, different perspectives, and pride to their roles.
- Support a mission connected to play, recreation, outdoor spaces, and community well-being.
- Be part of a broader family of brands with opportunities across many functions and locations.
Featured Hiring Focus
Fort Payne Manufacturing
We are currently highlighting manufacturing and factory opportunities at the PlayCore Southern Fulfillment Center in Fort Payne, Alabama.
For questions about this facility, call 256-845-5610.
Benefits and Compensation
Support for your work, health, and growth.
As part of the PlayCore family of brands, GameTime employees have access to benefits and programs designed to support balance, wellness, development, and connection.
We recognize your value.
Competitive salaries, paid vacation and holidays, and 401K plans with a match, because balance matters.
We’ve got you covered.
Choose benefits that are right for you from a menu of options with medical, dental, vision, disability, and more.
We believe in giving back.
We build communities from the inside out with corporate giving and fun volunteer programs and events.
We work, play, and live our culture.
From active off-site events to in-house occasions, we create opportunities to work, play, and have fun as a team.
We support health and wellness.
We embrace year-round healthy programming options and information to promote health and wellness.
We foster your development.
We believe in training and educational opportunities, and promoting from within to help you build your career with us.
Explore Opportunities
Ready to find your next opportunity?
Explore featured Fort Payne manufacturing openings, or view all current GameTime opportunities through PlayCore’s recruiting system.
PlayCore Southern Fulfillment Center
Featured manufacturing location: Fort Payne, Alabama
Outdoor Obstacle Courses for Every Generation
Challenge Course
Outdoor obstacle courses that bring families, students, athletes and communities together through active, competitive, social fitness.
5-12
Youth Series
13+
Pro Series
15+
Color Options
Ninja Warrior Obstacle Courses
An outdoor obstacle course the whole family can enjoy together.
Challenge Course by GameTime makes it easy to create an outdoor obstacle course that fits your space, your budget and your community goals.
Choose a preconfigured course for a faster planning process or design your own course with individual components that support climbing, balancing, racing, crawling, agility and strength.
- Preconfigured outdoor obstacle courses for faster selection
- Design-your-own options with more than a dozen individual components
- Youth and Pro series for different age ranges and use cases
- Optional timing systems for competitive fitness and community events
Built for Movement and Connection
Turn outdoor fitness into a community event.
Challenge Course creates a visible destination for movement, competition, connection and fun.
Intergenerational Recreation
Offer obstacle course experiences for children, teens and adults with Youth and Pro options designed for different age ranges.
Social Fitness
Create a place where people race, cheer, train, challenge friends and build community around active outdoor play.
Competitive Energy
Add optional timing systems to bring racing, personal records and organized events into the outdoor fitness experience.
Flexible Design
Choose a preconfigured course or customize a layout with individual components, colors, surfacing and site-specific planning.
Choose Your Challenge
Find the course that fits your users, site and goals.
Challenge Course options support youth fitness, teen and adult training, custom layouts and accessible surfacing strategies.
Challenge Course Pro
Ages 13+
Teens and Adults
Designed for users age 13 and up, Challenge Course Pro creates a fun, social and competitive fitness experience for parks, schools, universities and community wellness spaces.
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Challenge Course Youth
Ages 5-12
Youth Fitness
Scaled for children ages 5 to 12, Challenge Course Youth brings obstacle course fitness to schools, parks and recreation spaces in a way that supports school-age children.
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Design Your Own Course
Custom Layouts
More Components
Build a course around your site by selecting individual components, configuring the flow and creating a course experience that matches your audience.
Start Designing
Why Communities Choose Challenge Course
Obstacle course fitness with built-in energy.
Every course is a place to move, race, train, laugh, compete and come back again.
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Intergenerational Play
Give children, teens and adults different ways to enjoy movement, challenge and social fitness in one outdoor destination.
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Professional-Grade Timing
Add a timing system to create races, fitness challenges, school events, community competitions and personal best moments.
3
Color and Identity
Mix and match color options to create a course that feels energetic, memorable and connected to your site or organization.
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The Healthier Social Network
Create a community centerpiece that introduces people to physical fitness and to one another through shared outdoor activity.
Add Competition
Timing systems turn movement into momentum.
When you add an optional timing system, Challenge Course becomes more than a fitness path. It becomes a race, a goal, a class activity, a training station and a reason to try again.
Users start the clock, complete the course and finish by posting their time, creating an experience that is easy to understand and hard to ignore.
Surfacing Options
Build the course from the ground up.
The right surfacing helps define the experience, support access and match the level of performance your site needs.
Choose from GT Impax surfacing options including engineered wood fiber, poured-in-place rubber or professional-grade synthetic turf.
- Engineered wood fiber for an affordable surfacing option
- Poured-in-place rubber for highly accessible routes and use zones
- Synthetic turf for a professional-grade obstacle course feel
- Surfacing support from GameTime and GT Impax
Design Your Own Challenge Course
Create a course that fits your space, your users and your story.
Start with the obstacles that make sense for your audience, then shape the layout, color palette and experience around your goals.
Whether you need a school fitness course, a park destination, a campus recreation amenity or a community wellness feature, GameTime can help you build the right course.
- Choose individual Challenge Course components
- Plan flow, difficulty, spacing and course experience
- Use color to support identity and visual energy
- Pair the course with timing, surfacing and signage
Research and Recognition
Become a National Demonstration Site.
Challenge Course can be part of a larger commitment to outdoor fitness, health, wellness and measurable community impact.
Challenge Course FAQ
Questions customers usually ask first.
What is Challenge Course?
Challenge Course is an outdoor obstacle course system from GameTime designed to support active, social and competitive outdoor fitness.
Who can use Challenge Course?
Challenge Course includes Youth options for ages 5 to 12 and Pro options for users ages 13 and up.
Can I choose a preconfigured course?
Yes. Preconfigured Challenge Courses make it faster and easier to select a course that fits your available space and budget.
Can I design my own Challenge Course?
Yes. You can design your own course by choosing from individual components and working with GameTime to create a layout that fits your site.
Can Challenge Course include a timing system?
Yes. Optional timing systems can add a competitive element for racing, training, school activities and community events.
What surfacing options are available?
Challenge Course can be paired with GT Impax surfacing options including engineered wood fiber, poured-in-place rubber and synthetic turf.
Ready to Build Your Course?
Create an outdoor obstacle course that moves your community.
Bring active competition, social fitness and intergenerational recreation to parks, schools, universities and community spaces with Challenge Course by GameTime.
Ninja Warrior Obstacle Courses
The Challenge Course by GameTime® is an outdoor obstacle course the whole family can enjoy together. Our preconfigured obstacle courses make it fast and easy to select a course that fits your space and budget. You can also design your own course by choosing from more than a dozen individual components.
Intergenerational Recreation
From young children in elementary school to older teens and adults, there is something for everyone to enjoy with the Challenge Course. GameTime offers both a Youth and Pro series of products to make sure your outdoor obstacle course is compliant with all the standards for different age ranges.
Professional-Grade Timing Systems
When you add the optional timing system to your Challenge Course, things start to get really interesting! We offer the same systems used by the FINRA, NCAA, and other athletic organizations to provide accurate timing for your course. Users press and hold the button for the scoreboard to signal when to start, and when you complete the obstacle course, you press the button at the finish line to display your time on the board.
An Assortment of Colors
Mix and match more than 15 color options to make your outdoor obstacle course as unique as the people competing on it!
The Healthier Social Network
The Challenge Course is a community centerpiece that attracts people from all walks of life. Not only does it encourage social interaction, but also builds social capital for your community. Create a vibrant, healthy, and active outdoor obstacle course that introduces people to physical fitness- and to one another.
Challenge Course Pro
The Challenge Course Pro, designed for users age 13 and up, is the perfect way for teens and adults to enjoy a fun, social, and competitive fitness experience. Add an outdoor obstacle course to your park, middle/high school, or university for fitness classes, sports training, and community wellness.
Challenge Course Youth
Designed to meet the playground equipment standards for children ages 5 to 12, the Challenge Course Youth offers the same obstacles as the Pro series at a smaller scale. With the help of the Challenge Course, you can take school recess to the next level, or create an exciting obstacle course fitness experience for older children at your local park.
Surfacing Options
Choose from three GT Impax surfacing options for your Challenge Course outdoor obstacle course: affordable engineered wood fiber (EWF), highly accessible poured in place (PIP) rubber, or professional-grade synthetic turf.