At Evolve, we’re committed to not sucking. If you’re someone who’s also interested in not sucking, and who has hobbies like… oh, playing video games, reading about the games industry, promoting video games, and all that, then we would love to hear from you.

Why work at Evolve?

Just because! Oh fine, you need more real reasons. How about…

• Work from anywhere—home, the beach or even an alley. If your alley has internet.
• Flexible work hours and a 35-hour work week. Focus on the “life” part of “work-life balance.”
• Health and dental benefits.
• Be part of an agency with an exceptional reputation, aiming to break free from traditional game marketing in creative and exciting ways.
• Liberal vacation time: 3 weeks (15 biz days) minimum, plus Evolve Fridays: the second Friday of every month is a day off to enjoy time with friends, family, yourself… whatever!
• Work on a wide range of games, from AAA blockbusters to underdog indies.
• Educational allowance so you can get better at… well, whatever you’re doing.
• Enjoy working on a small team, wearing various hats. No funny hats, though. Oh, who am I kidding? Wear whatever hat you want, you weirdo.
• We <3 diversity. If you’re holding back from applying because of your gender, background, or anything else… please fight through the discomfort and apply! 

Open Positions

• Social Media & Community Specialist
• Manager, Community Team

SOcial Media & Community Specialist

Evolve is looking for a social media and community specialist with experience in video games to join our growing Community team. You’ll work with our PR, video, and research teams to help our roster of (mostly) indie and AA game clients plan and execute industry-leading, community-focused campaigns. The ideal candidate has well-rounded skills and knowledge, understanding how to develop communities, create and post written social content, and produce short-form video for platforms like Instagram Reels and TikTok. 

This is a remote, work-from-home position in Canada. 

Responsibilities & Expectations

In this role, your day-to-day work will vary depending on the game, client, and budget. Much of the job, however, involves:

• Manage social media platforms: Plan, execute, and report on social media activities. You’ll produce static graphic assets (or work with our in-house designer), write and edit copy, and develop reports and analytics.
• Develop communities: Conceptualise, plan, and execute creative campaigns to build and maintain communities around our clients’ brands. Engage with fans on social platforms, Steam, and wherever else they might congregate.
• Produce short-form video content: Create concepts, capture footage, edit, and post short-form video on IG Reels, TikTok, YT Shorts, etc.
• Best practices and team development: Develop our best practices for social and community engagement, as you work with executive teams to ensure our services and work are top quality.
• Analyze results and adapt strategies: Pay attention to metrics to see how our campaigns are performing, then provide recommendations for adjustments as needed.
• Advise on existing online content: Assess the owned channels of our clients, understand their overall awareness and impact in the community, and develop recommendations of how to improve upon their existing presence.
• Coach: Work with clients to identify their goals and priorities, so as to help implement best practices in-house and set them up for success in the future.
• Events (online & in real life): From booth staffing to online player events, plan and manage event presence from the community side.
• Project assessment: Work with the executive team to assess incoming and potential projects for quality, fit, and opportunities.

Experience & Skills

Nobody’s perfect, but the ideal candidate has many of the following traits and skills:

• 2+ years of experience managing social media and community campaigns for video games, whether in-house at a developer or publisher or in an agency capacity. Sorry, you have to have experience running social/community campaigns for games! This is not an entry-level role.
• A deep interest in video games–particularly the indie scene.
• Excellent understanding of social media and gaming communities. You know best practices for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Twitter, and Discord, as well as other social platforms; you know how to approach and engage different audiences.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. You will be expected to work with a remote team alongside clients located around the globe, take client calls, provide updates, and more.
• Solid English writing abilities. You will be expected to write and edit copy for client community accounts, as well as the Evolve channels at a professional level.
• Good video-editing capabilities. You don’t have to be a professional video editor, but you’ve produced short-form (TikTok/Reels) content. You know and understand the scene so you can stay on top of memes and trends, and can develop content on your own for those platforms.
• Top-notch collaboration. This position involves working alongside our PR, Insights, and Originals teams, as well as a wide range of clients. Teamwork!
• Analytical and flexible. You are more than a ‘doer’ but also will question why a strategy is working or not working and act quickly to adjust accordingly. You can move from a tiny indie client to a AAA juggernaut without losing stride.
• Exceptional organization and project management. This job requires keeping track of lots of different things—big and small. It’s literally impossible to keep it all in your head, so you need to be good at task management and organization.
• Self-driven. While you’re working with a team, it’s still a remote gig. You need to be self-motivated and ready to drive activities forward, consistently.

Tools

Ideally you are experienced with the following tools:

• Google Workspace (Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Gmail, etc.)
• Slack, Discord, etc.
• TikTok, Twitter, Discord, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and their respective media and analytics backends
• Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Premiere)

Nice to Have

While we need someone who embodies the traits and skills above, it’s always nice to have a few tricks up your sleeve. Some areas of expertise we’d love to see among applicants include:

• Graphic design and/or video mania: You can make things look pretty, whether we’re talking about still images and memes or videos and gifs.
• Spreadsheet wizardry: You’re an Excel/Sheets magician, able to work your way through complex formulae, pivot tables, etc. 
• Influencer relations: You have a great network of streamer or content-creator friends, and/or have experience working on influencer campaigns.
• Unreal or Unity: You know your way around these tools, and could potentially set up and create in-engine assets.

Ready to Apply?

Send your resume, cover letter, and any relevant work samples—you know, hilarious content you’ve produced, effective campaigns you’ve run, etc.—to [email protected], citing the Social Media & Community Specialist position.

Team Manager, Community Team

Evolve is looking for a mid-to-senior-level manager to lead our oh-so-sweet Community team. Just to be clear: we’re not looking for a community manager, but a manager of community… managers. You will be horrendously ambitious, almost annoyingly self-motivated, disgustingly organized, a highly strategic thinker, and, y’know, just a good human being who cares deeply about helping others develop into the best people they can be. 

You have experience managing teams, and have a strong understanding of gaming communities and social media platforms. You also have a deep love of video games, duh.

This is a remote, work-from-home position in Canada. There is no set closing date for this position; we’re actually not in a huge rush to hire, but are interested in hearing from interested applicants, and may move quickly with folks we really like!

Responsibilities

• Take the reins of our Community team, ensuring that work is done at an exceptionally high level of quality, on time. You’ll manage this team in a contemporary manner: you’re aware of modern management and leadership practices and can help us implement them.
• Help teams drive strategic vision for client and product marketing, pushing staff to shoot for the stars with creative and effective social media campaigns community initiatives across a range of indie and AAA clients.
• Develop and implement leading-edge analytics, OKRs/KPIs, or whatever you want to call them, and regularly assess progress on client and internal projects. We see an opportunity to innovate here, not relying on traditional metrics but defining new standards in setting and monitoring goals/objectives for social media and community campaigns.
• Help us champion our efforts to clients, staff, and to the world outside. You’ll act as a conduit between the Community team and the rest of the organization and management, keeping us apprised of key happenings, successes, failures. 
• Coach and mentor staff through day-to-day interactions and feedback, 1:1s, and formal performance reviews, and keep management updated about how everybody’s doing.
• Coordinate with our PR, Originals (video), and Insights teams to develop holistic marketing campaigns, assets, social media content, and more.
• Develop (and help others develop) policies and processes, training materials, how-to guides, and more, as we look to share knowledge more formally across the company. These efforts will target staff, clients, and the broader marketing and gaming industries, building Evolve’s reputation and visibility through thought leadership and community development.
• Uphold principles of kindness, inclusiveness, compassion, accountability and excellence.

Qualifications

Nobody’s perfect, but the ideal candidate has some combination of the following:

• 3+ years experience planning and executing marketing roll-outs, social media and community campaigns, in a lead or supervisory role.
• 2+ years experience in a leadership position working on video game community and/or social media management.
• Not a micromanager, knowledgeable in modern management and leadership practices, objective setting, training, and more.
• Exceptional project management and organizational capabilities. You’re great at keeping projects on schedule, updating project-management tools, delegating, and all that jazz.
• Experience using cloud-based project management tools. We use ClickUp, but experience with Asana, Monday, Trello, Jira, etc. is likely also relevant.
• High attention to detail, cuz, like, we like to pay attention to details.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the video game, social media, and/or marketing fields/industries, platforms, and trends.
• Able to work on several projects at once, maintaining equanimity even when the world seems to be falling apart around you.
• An excellent communicator—written and verbal—capable of talking to C-level executives as comfortably as to a 12-year-old gaming fan.
• Highly self-motivated, you’re a critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Dedicated to excellence, you are a lifelong learner and maybe a bit anti-establishment. You read about creative processes, marketing, and management, and are never content to maintain the status quo.
• Must have a working (and not ancient) PC and reliable internet connection.

Ready to apply?

Send your resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to [email protected], citing the Team Manager – Community Team position.