The 10 best entry-level opportunities in gaming right now
Make no bones about it, these are the top 10 entry-level opportunities in the video game industry right now. And when we say “entry-level”, we mean entry-level. Not “entry-level” where three years of professional experience and a shipped AAA title are necessary to apply!
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1. Global Publishing Communication Intern at Ubisoft
Location: Remote (USA) 🇺🇸
Tag(s): Public Relations (PR), Administrative
Salary: Competitive
This six-month internship contract is for Ubisoft’s San Francisco Public Relations department and is for 30–40 hours of work per week. The real beauty of this role is that it can be worked fully remotely from anywhere in the world.
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2. Junior Game Developer at Hairy Heart
Location: Glasgow, UK 🇬🇧
Tag(s): Game Development, Unity
Salary: £22,000–26,000 per year
Join a small, independent game studio based in Glasgow to work on a new short-form narrative game about a giant who is lonely and looking for love. If you can code in C# and have a degree in computer science or game development, this is for you.
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3. Account Executive at Waste Creative
Location: London, UK 🇬🇧
Tag(s): Account Management, Administrative
Salary: Competitive
This is a rare chance to gain some learning and development in the account executive hiring sector of the video game industry. Work with one of the most innovative mobile gaming clients in the world in a hybrid capacity, and get a competitive salary and multiple benefits for doing so.
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4. Associate Engineer (NTD) at Nintendo
Location: Redmond, WA, USA 🇺🇸
Tag(s): Game Development
Salary: $84,806–127,210 USD per year
We don’t see too many genuine entry-level opportunities at Nintendo, especially not ones that pay upwards of six figures and allow you to develop software on Nintendo’s own hardware platforms. [OPT] in this job description means optional, just so you know!
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5. Game Master - German Speaking at Square Enix
Location: London, UK 🇬🇧
Tag(s): Customer Service, Community Management
Salary: Competitive
Okay, so you’ll need to be able to speak both English and German to have any chance here. However, if you are bilingual in those two particular languages then this 12-month fixed-term contract with a legendary game studio could be yours!
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6. Associate Artist at Electronic Arts
Location: Hyderabad, TG, India 🇮🇳
Tag(s): Model Art, 2D
Salary: Competitive
Glu Mobile India Studio is a new subsidiary of EA and it is hiring for a very unique opportunity in a very unique location, for Hitmarker at least. Work on an “undisclosed 2D mobile game for women” on makeup, hairstyles, and more!
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7. Associate QA Tester - Functionality at Rockstar Games
Location: Dundee, UK 🇬🇧
Tag(s): Quality Assurance (QA)
Salary: Competitive
Unique location: check. Awesome studio: HUGE check. It’s not every day we post an entry-level opportunity to work with Rockstar in Dundee, especially not one that’s in QA, one of our most sought-after employment sectors. This won’t be hiring for long, so you’d best be quick!
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8. Player Support Agent - Japanese at TransPerfect
Location: Remote (Anywhere) 🌎
Tag(s): Customer Service
Salary: Competitive
This is another bilingual customer service opportunity, but Japanese is the second language required here rather than German. Another difference is that this is a full-time contract for 40 hours per week and, even more crucially, it’s fully remote and can be worked from anywhere in the world!
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9. Engineering Intern at High Moon Studios
Location: Carlsbad, CA, USA 🇺🇸
Tag(s): Software Engineering, Backend Development
Salary: $19.71–36.42 USD per hour
If you’re enrolled in a computer science degree or you’re just about to graduate, High Moon wants to hear from you! Proficiency in C/C++ is required, along with a good understanding of 3D Math. A love for Call of Duty would be a bonus, too.
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10. Playtester at Sperasoft
Location: Yerevan, Armenia 🇦🇲
Tag(s): Quality Assurance (QA)
Salary: Competitive
We love having Sperasoft on Hitmarker because it means we get to post opportunities from places like Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Serbia. This opportunity is for mobile AAA games and is a great first step into full-time playtesting/QA.
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