thatgamecompany

Designer

• Work closely with the rest of the UI team to develop intuitive, beautiful, innovative interfaces for our games
• Conceptualize new interfaces to solve design problems, and make new features possible
• Create wireframes, mockups, and animations to drive development
• Do polish passes on pre-existing interfaces and wireframes, to ensure the UI is up to our aesthetic and usability standards game-wide
• Create quick-and-dirty prototypes, perform UX tests to validate our hypotheses, and iterate based on the results
• Implement the final interface in C++ to be pixel-perfect
• Collaborate with team members across various disciplines, and be a general advocate for usability and UI consistency
• Mentor fellow designers and help maintain a high quality bar across the team

Senior UI Technical Designer

Program Manager

• Oversee and grow the Sky: Children of the Light Creator Program, ensuring a welcoming and supportive environment for creators of all experience levels.
• Develop and manage onboarding, communication, and recognition systems for program members.
• Maintain program guidelines, resources, and performance metrics.
• Plan and execute creator-focused initiatives in alignment with Sky’s seasonal content updates, in-game events, and marketing beats.
• Partner with internal teams to create creative briefs and activations (e.g., creator challenges, themed content showcases, collaborative spotlights).
• Coordinate content calendars and asset distribution for seasonal creator campaigns.
• Build strong, personal relationships with creators, from casual players to established influencers.
• Provide creators with opportunities for feedback, mentorship, and early access to event information.
• Celebrate and amplify community creations across official channels in collaboration with the Social Media team.
• Track engagement, participation rates, and program impact across platforms.
• Provide insights and recommendations to improve creator satisfaction and campaign effectiveness.

Creator Program Manager

Community Manager

• Serve as the voice of the Sky community within live operations, delivering timely, actionable insights on sentiment, key issues, and emerging trends to guide development decisions.
• Partner closely with development and production teams to surface critical feedback, track live player issues, and ensure community perspectives are represented in planning and updates.
• Identify and communicate potential areas that may affect player satisfaction or harmony within the game, helping shape solutions that stay true to Sky’s spirit of connection.
• Develop and execute community engagement programs across Discord, Steam, and other platforms to strengthen player loyalty, foster meaningful connections, and drive long-term engagement.
• Create initiatives that celebrate player stories, creativity, and shared experiences within the world of Sky, and promote a welcoming, inclusive community culture.
• Support moderation and community health strategies that ensure all players feel safe, seen, and welcome.
• Design and manage structured beta feedback programs, gathering both qualitative and quantitative data to inform development decisions.
• Translate community feedback into clear, actionable insights for the development team, helping align design intent with player experience.
• Build regular reporting (daily, weekly, and monthly) to share trends in community sentiment, engagement, and overall community well-being.
• Identify emerging themes, risks, or opportunities in community discussions and proactively surface them to the team.
• Collaborate across production, development, and other marketing groups to ensure community perspectives and updates are shared transparently and meaningfully.
• Support patch notes, live events, and community announcements with messaging that reflects Sky’s warmth, optimism, and authenticity.
• Help foster a culture of empathy and openness between the development team and our global community.

Senior Community Manager

Security Engineer

• Design and implement robust security architectures for game clients, servers, and live services to protect against cheating, hacking, and unauthorized access.
• Lead investigations into security incidents, reverse-engineer exploits, and deploy mitigation strategies to safeguard player experiences.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing across game engines, backend systems, and third-party integrations.
• Collaborate with game developers to integrate anti-cheat solutions, secure network protocols, and encryption mechanisms into core gameplay systems.
• Develop anti-cheat and anti-fraud tools and automation frameworks to detect, analyze, and respond to threats in real-time.
• Monitor cheaters and cheat communities to track threats and trends.
• Mentor engineering and QA teams on secure coding practices, threat modeling, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Stay ahead of emerging threats in the gaming industry by researching new attack vectors and evolving defense tactics.
• Partner with compliance teams to ensure adherence to global data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) and industry security standards.

Senior Game Security Engineer

Backend Engineer

• Design and implement large-scale, highly available backend systems that serve thousands to millions of concurrent players and aim for zero downtime.
• Embrace modern container and cluster management technology to make our backend stack more elastic and robust.
• Improve and maintain an agile and reliable development environment for the backend stack, so that people with different skillsets in the company can do social experiments easily, and new hires can ramp up quickly.
• Monitor the backend health and respond to any failures or glitches to deliver a smooth online experience to players worldwide; keep improving dev-ops tools to make the job more automatic and error-proof.
• Assist long-term technical roadmap for server-side infrastructure, multi-game platforms & microservices, large-scale data warehouses and pipelines (Chinese description).
• 设计并实现大规模、高可用的后端系统，承载百万级玩家同时在线，并努力接近零故障时间。
• 使用前沿的容器及集群管理技术，使我们的后台系统更加稳定并易于伸缩。
• 改善和维护我们的日常后端开发环境，以便让不同岗位的开发者都能够参与后端工作，并让新员工能够更快地上手工作。
• 日常监控服务器的运行情况，并对任何系统抖动和事故做出快速反应，以保证全球玩家平稳舒适的游戏体验。

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Build and scale FP&A capabilities; central responsibility for corporate-level planning and cross-functional business partnering.
• Lead company-wide budgeting & forecasting, consolidating budgets and forecasts across all departments.
• Develop and deliver monthly financial reporting packages, including P&L, cash flow, and key business KPIs.
• Analyze data from data warehouses and business systems to surface trends and drive data-driven forecasting.
• Support multi-year financial modeling and scenario analysis for strategic planning and board-level presentations.
• Partner with department heads (Product, Engineering, Publishing, G&A/Ops) to provide financial insights and track performance vs. budget.
• Improve forecasting accuracy and financial processes leveraging FP&A tool (Abacum), ERP (NetSuite), and data infrastructure.
• Provide financial analysis for new initiatives, partnerships, and international operations, including sensitivity analysis and ROI modeling.
• Prepare presentations for executive leadership and investors; work closely with the VP of Finance and Director of Finance.

Senior FP&A Manager

• General DESIGN position for applicants who don't fall in the categories of current openings
• Role invitation only; no specific duties, responsibilities, or deliverables listed
• Applicants directed to apply via provided application form