Why would you want to work with us?
Instead of us giving you a long speel about why Learning Yogi is a special organisation to work with, we decided to ask a few of our team members what they liked about working with us.
And just for fun, we recorded them on camera and put together a quick video for you!
Do the best work of your life
When you work with Learning Yogi, we guarantee the following:
1. You’ll work harder and on more challenging projects than you’ve ever worked before.
2. But, the work won’t feel like work because you’ll enjoy every moment of it.
3. You’ll work with a group of hugely talented and passionate team members, who are united in our mission to revolutionise education, and who will inspire you to do the best work of your life.
Flexible location and working hours
Our team members enjoy perks like flexible working hours and being able to work remotely.
Do you have what it takes to join our tribe?
Are you scrappy and entrepreneurial in nature?
Do you love the idea of working in a lean startup, as opposed to being a mere cog in the wheel of a big company?
Are you passionate about having a huge, positive impact on the lives of millions of kids around the world, and, most importantly, on the lives of hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children in developing countries?
Yes? Let’s talk 🙂
Our Current Openings
We currently have the following positions available:
Lead Game Project Manager
Key responsibilities:
- Lead project planning sessions using your expertise in agile approaches and methodologies
- Work closely with developers to improve our dev ops and design highly scalable, available, and reliable CI/CD processes
- Continuously identify areas of improvement and opportunities for automation in our workflow, get buy-in from all stakeholders, and implement those improvements
- Lead and participate in removing waste, project barriers, bottlenecks and roadblocks
- Assign tasks and manage projects for teams of designers, programmers, artists and testers
- Ensure that the various planning, communication and tracking tools are properly implemented and updated
- Oversee quality in collaboration with the Lead Designers and Creative Director
- Be the point of escalation for conflict management, problem-solving, risk identification and developing mitigation strategies
- Regular communication with all stakeholders
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- 7+ years of experience in the gaming industry
- In-depth knowledge of project operations acquired from a minimum of 3+ years in project management on AAA game franchises or similar software development projects
- Experience managing large projects with Agile project management principles and practices
- Experience with continuous development and deployments of large-scale systems
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Excellent written and verbal English communication, and strong emotional intelligence skills
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
2D Animation Director
Key responsibilities:
- Work closely with other team members to unify your visions for the production of cinematics and define the animation style
- Connect animators to the animation vision by providing them with visual benchmarks, references, and training
- Review the work of animators and provide mentorship and constructive feedback to them
- Collaborate with Creative Director and Lead Game Designers to identify and plan animation requirements for projects
- Assist the Project Manager in the creation and overall management of the animation schedule and resource plans
- Collaborate with developers to brainstorm technical ideas and solutions for implementing animations in Unity
- Hands-on animation using Unity and other tools whenever necessary
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- 8+ years of experience in 2D animation with at least 3 years in the gaming industry
- Has shipped at least one game as an Animation Director / Animation Lead demonstrating a high visual bar
- Past experience with game engines (Unity or Unreal)
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
Senior Unity Game Developer
Key responsibilities:
- Work with game designers to flesh out and document game ideas
- Develop multiple educational games from scratch using agile methodologies
- Devise the overall technical architecture for each game
- Coding in Unity and C#
- Unit and Functional Testing
- Take a hands-on role in implementing and deploying working games in an iterative manner
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- Has a portfolio of at least 3 games that have been published on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, or other distribution channels, which we can review
- 3+ years of professional experience in game development
- Proficient in Unity
- Ability to take a project from scoping requirements through prototyping to actual launch of the project
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes and testing
- Be able to write well-structured, readable, and well-documented code
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Additional preferred qualifications:
- Proficient in Agile methodologies
- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, databases and efficient data storage
Lead Game Designer
Key responsibilities:
- Work with management team and external consultants to flesh out and document game ideas
- Design the game mechanics and user interface of each game
- Design and create multiple levels for each game
- Work with other members of the production team (e.g. our in-house game developers and game artists, external voiceover artists and sound designers, etc.)
- Coordinate and manage the production of assets by different team members to ensure a smooth production pipeline
- Oversee multiple rounds of playtesting for each game by representative end-users, obtain feedback from them, and implement the insights obtained from such play-testing into game revisions
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- Has at least 5 years of experience in game design, or at least 2 years of experience in game design for young kids
- Has a portfolio of at least 6 games that have been published on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, or other distribution channels, which we can review
- Proficient in Unity
- Has abstraction skills allowing him/her to isolate essential parameters of a system in order to create a prototype
- Good eye for highly engaging gameplay experiences, strong advocate for the end-user experience
- Understands how to optimize the impact of each reward in a game in order to maximize player motivation
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Senior 2D Game Artist
Key responsibilities:
- Create artwork that is 100% consistent with the style bible that our organisation uses for all of our art assets
- Conceptualize the visual designs that drive highly engaging digital learning experiences and express these ideas using illustrations and sketches
- Design and create 2D graphics for user-interface components, e.g. menus, stats, in-game elements
- Develop 2D visual assets like characters and backgrounds using Photoshop, Illustrator and comparable tools
- Work closely with development team to create 2D animations and effects for key gameplay events and game interface screens
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum Qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- 3+ years game industry experience as a 2D artist or illustrator
- Has a portfolio of digital art, animation and/or at least one game that has been published on the Google Play Store, Apple App Store, or other distribution channels, which we can review
- Experience & knowledge in creating 2D pixel art and vector art, including color, lighting and composition
- Understands character development, anatomical proportions and physiology
- Excellent background and layout sensibilities
- Extensive experience with 2D art tools and authoring tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
- Strong visual effects and animation skills
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Additional preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge of 3D modelling and texturing is a plus
- Strong traditional art skills is a plus
Senior Game Sound Designer
Key responsibilities:
- Establish the audio aesthetic for each game
- Work with other members of the production team to coordinate audio needs and asset lists
- Design sound assets and implement SFX and music in-game
- Play the Atlas Mission regularly and continually identify opportunities to improve audio quality
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- Has at least 3 years of experience in sound design for games
- Expert knowledge of sound mixing methods and tools
- Proficient in Unity
- Ability to implement audio scripting to achieve desired in-game audio features
- Ability to optimize sound assets to meet memory budget and performance requirements
- Ability to deconstruct audio implementation in other games
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Curriculum Developer
Key responsibilities:
- Design the overall curriculum structure for our game-based learning platform
- Determine the competencies that are required to master each element of the curriculum
- Work closely with development team to develop ideas and concepts for games for each competency
- Create the curriculum for each game
- Test each game once it has been created to make sure that it meets desired curricular standards
- Create stories, rhymes and other content for early readers
- Conduct usability testing sessions of our games with kids in preschools, kindergartens, day-care centres, etc.
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in developing countries
- Either 3+ years of experience developing English or Maths curriculum for early childhood education OR 3+ years of experience teaching English or Maths to children in kindergarten or grades 1 – 3 OR a combination of 3+ years of curriculum development and teaching experience
- Master’s degree in English, Education, Communication, Psychology, Maths or a related field
- Ability to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Additional preferred qualifications:
- Experience building computer-based learning programs for young children
- Experience creating assessments to evaluate learning outcomes
- Comprehensive knowledge of the latest academic research and best practices on early childhood education
- Experience working with a distributed team
Senior Backend (.NET) Developer
We are looking for a Senior Backend (.NET) Developer who can develop efficient server-client interactions, web services, data analytics, statistical analysis tools, and implement a multi-player and multi-platform environment for our mobile game-based educational platform.
Key responsibilities:
- Devise the overall technical architecture for the entire platform
- Develop back-end services for our platform in order to manage the interchange of data between the server and our mobile apps
- Create schemas for new databases in line with business requirements and maintain our existing databases
- Integrate educational games built by our game developers into the platform
- Build and maintain our online payment gateway
- Build our back-end analytics, reporting and AI based recommendation engines
- Support and develop CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps solutions
- Maintain our cloud (AWS and Azure) instances
- Implement security and data protection features
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in India and other developing countries
- Knowledge of fundamental design principles behind building a scalable web application
- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, databases and efficient data storage
- Proficient in C#, Angular, Entity Framework Core, SQL and NoSQL databases
- Proficient in front-end technologies and frameworks
- In depth knowledge of server management, hosting, and cloud solutions (AWS and Azure)
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, build processes and testing
- Proficient in GIT
- Proficient in asynchronous programming
- Be able to write well-structured, readable, and well-documented code
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Additional preferred qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in building high-performance, scalable server-client environments
- Experience in Unity game development
- Experience in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Recommendation Engines
- Proficient with WordPress
Quality Assurance Engineer / Game Tester
Key responsibilities:
- Use standard testing methodologies to develop and execute test plans including system, regression, performance, and stress testing
- Write test plans for our games, develop manual test cases and scripts, and execute testing manually for a multitude of devices
- Document defects using a bug tracking system
- Work closely with development team to ensure that defects are rectified
- Conduct usability testing sessions for our games with children in our target age-groups and provide actionable feedback to the development team
- Contribute to recruiting new talent, as per the organisation’s needs
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of underprivileged kids in developing countries
- At least 2 years of software QA experience
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies and tools
- Extreme attention to detail
- A scrappy, entrepreneurial attitude and drive that gets high-quality projects done quickly
- English proficiency – spoken and written
Additional preferred qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience testing iOS and Android games and apps
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Experience conducting usability testing sessions with end-users
- Experience working with a distributed team
User-Experience Researcher (Part-time)
We are looking for a part-time user-experience researcher who will conduct usability testing sessions for us with children aged 2.5 – 4.5 years. The time commitment required is approximately 4 – 5 hours per week on average (not including travel time).
Key responsibilities:
- Contact preschools, kindergartens, play schools and day-care centres located close to where you live whom we can partner with to conduct usability testing sessions with their children aged 2.5 – 4.5 years
- Visit these schools every week and conduct usability testing sessions with the children who attend these schools
- Attend periodic Skype calls with our game design team to provide feedback and suggestions for improvement based on the usability testing sessions
- Review our educational games from a usability perspective before they are sent for usability testing and provide feedback to our game design team
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of disadvantaged kids around the world
- Critical thinking, attention to detail and creativity
- Ability to handle small groups of young children
- Familiarity with tablets/smartphones and ability to troubleshoot minor technical issues as and when they arise during testing
Additional preferred qualifications:
- Prior experience conducting usability testing sessions for computer software and video games
- Prior experience teaching or parenting young children
- Avid gamer who regularly plays video games
Growth Marketing Manager
We’re looking for an outstanding Growth Marketing Manager to lead user acquisition (both paid and organic) and retention across all online channels, including app stores, social, search, display, email, etc.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop strategic customer acquisition and retention plans to drive profitable growth
- Creation and ongoing management of acquisition campaigns using Apple Search Ads, app store optimization (ASO), paid social, social media marketing, paid search, search engine optimization (SEO), viral and referral marketing, email marketing, affiliate marketing, Youtube video marketing, etc.
- Continuously test and optimize new channels, audiences, bidding strategies, landing pages, visual assets, and copy
- Lead our conversion rate optimization efforts
- Use Google Analytics and internal reporting systems to better understand our users and exploit those insights in marketing campaigns
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of disadvantaged kids around the world
- At least 3 years of experience in creating a comprehensive digital marketing strategy from the ground up for startups
- Proven success creating profitable paid acquisition campaigns, especially with Apple Search Ads, Facebook Ads, and Google Ads
- Demonstrated success with organic app store optimization (ASO) in both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
- Extremely data driven
- Has the aesthetic sensibilities to be able to create visual assets that are in line with our brand’s positioning
CSR Fundraising Manager
We are looking for a full-time Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Fundraising Manager for our NGO sister organisation, the Learning Yogi Foundation (LYF).
Key responsibilities:
- Design and implement a systematic fundraising program to raise CSR funds from Indian companies
- Create proposals, presentations, and other materials for raising grant funding
- Establish and maintain relationships with CSR divisions of Indian companies, and raise CSR funding from them
- Help with implementation, monitoring, and assessment of CSR funded projects in urban and rural communities
Minimum qualifications:
- Passionate about working for a social cause and making a huge difference to the lives of disadvantaged kids around the world
- At least 2 years of experience raising CSR funds
- Outstanding sales and business development skills
- Existing connections with CSR divisions of leading Indian companies
- Excellent English communication skills (both oral and written)
Submit your Application
In order to apply for any of these positions, please fill up the following form. We will evaluate your application and get back to you in case there’s a fit.