[Hiring] Junior Live Ops Game Designer @A Thinking Ape

Role Description

As a Junior Live Ops Game Designer, you’ll help bring live events and content to life in Party in my Dorm. This is an entry-level role designed for someone passionate about free-to-play games and excited to learn how live-service games are run day to day.

• Bring recurring events and content (such as main events, gacha boxes, and seasonal content) to life using existing tools and templates.
• Support the iteration and improvement of live content under the guidance of senior designers.
• Test content hands-on and work with QA to ensure events are stable and ready for launch.
• Review event performance using data and dashboards, and help turn insights into actionable improvements.
• Help resolve live-ops issues as they arise to ensure events remain stable.
• Propose small improvements to existing events based on data and player feedback.
• Collaborate closely with our Product, Creative, Community, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality live events and content that players genuinely enjoy.
• Develop your skills in event design and reward balancing, learning how pacing, incentives, and scarcity shape player behavior and influence game economies.
• Build an understanding of how events impact retention, engagement, and monetization.
• Stay closely connected to player sentiment, community discussions, and trends in the free-to-play mobile market.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree (preferably in Economics, Psychology, or a related field), a game design degree/diploma, or 1+ years of experience working on live games (e.g. QA, customer support, community, or live ops).
• Actively playing and interested in free-to-play mobile games.
• Strong spreadsheet skills and comfort working with formulas and structured data.
• Interest in player motivation and behavioral design.
• Comfortable working with data to form hypotheses. SQL query and/or Looker experience is an asset.
• Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with people from different disciplines.
• Curious, growth-oriented mindset — comfortable asking questions, seeking feedback, and learning through iteration.

Benefits

• Flexible, safe, inclusive environment with autonomy to do your best work.
• Supportive leadership that values your contributions.
• Thought-provoking projects and fun problems to tackle.
• Career progression with space and resources to grow.
• Competitive compensation with a focus on health and wellbeing.
• Flexible work schedule, three weeks of vacation to start, and flexible sick days.
• Generous health benefits package.

Company Description

A Thinking Ape is a remote mobile game studio focused on building social strategy games that people play for decades.

• Location: Remote within British Columbia, Canada.
• Salary: CAD $48,000 for candidates located in British Columbia.
• Commitment to inclusion and diversity in the workforce.