Internship Type: Undergraduate student, studying a sandwich degree that supports a placement year

Start Date: Summer 2026 

Length: 12 months

Location: London

Position Overview:

We are looking for an Art Intern who is passionate about honing their craft and growing their skills. By joining Gram Games, you’ll develop your skills alongside some of the most talented minds in mobile gaming. Throughout this internship, you will gain deep industry knowledge and contribute directly to the production of our titles.

At Gram, our interns are integral members of the team. We’re seeking someone driven, proactive, and unafraid to take initiative. We expect our interns to leave a lasting mark on both our studio and our games, and we look for teammates who embody flexibility, independence, and a restless curiosity to find creative answers.

At Gram we embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

How to Apply?

Please apply with your CV, cover letter, and a portfolio of your work, which may include game jams, personal projects, and/or open-source contributions. Your portfolio can demonstrate both team and solo work.

Your cover letter should address the following:

• Why would you like to do an internship with Gram Games?
• Why have you chosen this specific internship?

What You'll Do:

• Create 2D Art Assets: Produce high-quality visuals for LiveOps events, including offers, pop-ups, banners, and in-game assets.
• Art Team Support: Assist in preparing and exporting assets to ensure a seamless implementation process.
• AI Integration: Utilize AI tools within your daily workflow for rendering, generating variations, upscaling, and rapid iteration.
• Style Adaptation: Quickly and consistently adapt existing game art styles into new LiveOps materials.
• File Management: Maintain well-organized, layered source files (PSD/Figma) for efficient team collaboration.
• Pipeline Mastery: Learn and navigate the production pipelines of a live, large-scale mobile gaming environment.
• Collaborative Feedback: Actively participate in art reviews, applying and providing constructive feedback to maintain high visual standards.

What You Bring:

• You are an undergraduate student currently enrolled in a sandwich degree that supports a placement year.
• You are studying Game Art, Animation, Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design, or a related creative field.
• A solid understanding of composition, colour theory, typography, and layout.
• Practical knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Figma or Miro.
• A genuine interest and curiosity in AI-assisted art production workflows.
• The ability to work at pace, iterate quickly, and strictly follow an established art style.
• An eagerness to learn the nuances of game production and LiveOps dynamics.
• A collaborative team player with strong communication skills.

Bonus Points:

• A keen interest in mobile games and current trends in game art.
• Familiarity with AI image generation or enhancement tools (e.g., Layer, Gemini, etc.).
• Completion of an internship or school projects specifically focused on digital art or UI design.

What We Offer You:

• A paid internship with a competitive salary.
• Genuine production experience on a live, global mobile game.
• Hands-on experience with AI-driven art workflows and industry-standard pipelines.
• Direct guidance from our experienced Game Artists and Art Director.
• The opportunity to build a strong portfolio featuring shipped LiveOps content.
• An awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and a variety of treats (naughty and nice!).
• Private medical and dental care, a healthcare cash plan and life insurance.
• A favourable pension scheme to get you started.
• High-end hardware to work on and consoles throughout the office to relax and play.

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a visionary Art Director to join our Studio Leadership Team and spearhead the artistic direction of Merge Dragons! In this key role, you will be responsible for defining the strategy and owning the art direction.

As an experienced leader, you possess a nuanced understanding of leadership, communication, and production practices. You excel at optimising engagement and quality within your team, all while fostering a collaborative environment rooted in the culture and values of Gram Games.

A natural strategic thinker, you have the ability to forecast the future of art creation and translate complex strategies into achievable, high-impact tactical plans. Your expertise will ensure the predictable delivery of art features, technology, and updates, ensuring our creative strategy is always matched by effective and consistent execution.

At Gram we embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the end-to-end visual direction for Merge Dragons!, from pre-production through to live operations
• Define the art strategy and tactical plans, ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality assets and technical features
• Manage and mentor the art leadership team, fostering a high-performance culture focused on growth, morale, and Gram Games’ values
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Tech Art to translate complex systems into intuitive, scalable UI/UX solutions within Unity
• Oversee production pipelines and outsourcing partnerships, ensuring creative goals are met within technical and performance constraints
• Present the art vision and project updates with gravitas to the wider organization and studio leadership
• Evaluate and integrate emerging trends and technologies—including AI tools—to optimize the art pipeline and maintain a competitive edge

What You Bring: 

• Proven Leadership: A track record of leading art teams for games, through the full development lifecycle—from early concepting to live operations
• Engine Expertise: Strong working knowledge of Unity pipelines and a clear understanding of how to align artistic vision with technical performance targets
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: The ability to turn complex game systems into clear, player-centric experiences through close partnership with Engineering and Design
• Artistic Fundamentals: Mastery of colour theory, lighting, and composition, and the ability to apply these fundamentals to influence the game’s overall direction
• Strategic Mindset: "Outside-the-box" thinking regarding new art features and a proactive approach to solving production challenges
• Communication Skills: Experience creating supporting materials (style guides, mood boards, etc.) to clearly articulate art direction to internal and external departments
• Positive Energy: An energetic, "can-do" attitude that inspires peers and fosters a collaborative atmosphere

Bonus Points:

• Experience within the mobile gaming sector
• Proven experience leading UI/UX direction for a shipped title
• A portfolio that demonstrates both high-level UI visual quality and deep UX thinking
• Experience creating and maintaining robust UI design systems

What We Offer You: 

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Game Economy Designer, you will build and optimize in-game economies that balance engaging player experience with sustainable monetization. Applying data-driven models and game design principles, you will focus on improving long-term retention, revenue, and player satisfaction throughout the game’s lifecycle!

What You’ll Do:

• Economy Design & Optimization: Design, manage, and optimize complex in-game economies, including virtual goods, currencies, pricing models, and reward systems for events and progression paths. Set ideal pricing to balance long-term player satisfaction with strong monetization opportunities.
• Modeling & Simulation: Build models, predictive simulations, and prototypes to proactively forecast the impact of game features, content updates, and game balance on player behavior.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Define critical metrics, plan A/B testing, and analyze game data to continuously iterate on live features and address economic issues. Ensure balanced revenue growth without sacrificing player engagement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Game Design, Data, Engineering, and LiveOps teams to deliver impactful features and craft the most efficient experience for players. Provide expert advice and support data-informed decision making across the studio.

What You Bring:

• At least 3 years of prior experience in mobile/freemium games in roles such as economy design, game design, data science, liveops, or product.
• Strong analytical skills and logical thinking, with proven experience in data-oriented projects.
• Strong interpersonal communication, highly collaborative, open-minded, and self-motivated.
• A degree in economics or a related field.
• Advanced level of English.

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan, including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

We are looking for a Product Manager, LiveOps to join our growing team! Are you ready to shape the next generation of games that are played by millions with your monetization expertise?

You will lead the development and execution of our monetization strategies, ensuring they align with the game’s vision and business goals while delivering a tailored player experience. You will improve cross-functional collaboration with Product, Analytics, and Creative teams, setting the strategic direction for monetization and live-ops to boost long-term revenue and player happiness. Your contribution will craft the monetization roadmap, influence key decisions, and directly impact the experience of millions of players every day.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and implement monetization strategies by diving into player behavior, engagement data, and market trends.
• Own the revenue performance of your game(s) or area(s), ensuring alignment with strategic growth goals.
• Find opportunities and lead actions to drive balanced revenue growth, whether tweaking pricing, refining offers, or optimizing player journeys.
• Collaborate with Product and Game Economy teams to define the best ways to monetize different player segments.
• Act as the primary resource for providing mentorship on monetization, responding to inquiries from team members and collaborators with assurance.
• Plan and implement high-impact monetization events (such as special sales or limited-time offers) and use A/B testing to make informed, data-backed decisions.
• Configure in-game events and drive improvements in Live Ops tools to simplify workflows and increase impact.
• Lead projects that improve data visibility and player insights, then share findings across the studio to level up everyone’s game.
• Stay ahead by analyzing industry trends and benchmarking standard methodologies in Live Ops.

What You Bring:

• 3-5 years of experience in mobile/freemium games, with a focus on Live Operations, Monetization, Product Management, or data analytics.
• Strong analytical and logical thinking skills, with a user-centric and data-driven approach. Experience conducting and analyzing A/B tests.
• Resourceful team member who thrives on solving challenges and has a strong curiosity about player psychology.
• Ability to work collaboratively with an open-minded, self-motivated attitude.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with proficiency in written/spoken English. Ability to align diverse teams, cultures, and work styles.
• Passion for games!

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead complex projects, craft scalable software solutions, and mentor junior engineers. You will ensure that software meets high standards of quality, performance, and security.

What You’ll Do:

• Plan and implement game features that align with the overall game design.
• Optimize existing game engines to improve performance and scalability.
• Coordinate with other team leads to synchronize development processes.
• Review and produce code and technical design documents of peers to ensure high standards.
• Build and enforce coding standards and guidelines.
• Demonstrate competence in navigating the organization to connect with relevant individuals and resources.

What You Bring:

• Proficiency in C# with essential knowledge of Unity.
• Strong experience in software development.
• Strong understanding of software development principles and methodologies.
• Analyse product code and propose improvement solutions for better performance.
• Maintain code quality by ensuring code reviews and alignment with established standards.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• A hands-on management style with involvement in end-to-end process tracking.
• Understand general business concepts to interpret critical metrics for the business/product (such as DAU, ARPDAU, etc.).
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Familiarity with game development and knowledge of the industry
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.

What We Offer You:

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry.

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look

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As a Marketing Artist on our user acquisition focused creative team, you will play a significant role in promoting Zynga’s mobile games. You will work closely with our marketing creative team to produce visual communications that showcase exciting features of upcoming games, as well as live features and events of current titles. This responsibility requires an ability to execute quickly and efficiently against a broad range of tasks across all areas of the game’s portfolio, from creating promotional images & motion graphics to helping edit 2D animation.

You will be a key, hands-on figure in the overall design pipeline, collaborating with stakeholders  to produce compelling content that engages audiences to install and play our mobile games worldwide.

Responsibilities will include:

• Create new, original creatives, guided by feedback from the team and UA
• Identify new market trends and conduct creative analysis of competitor ads
• Begin to build relationships with external agencies and partners via meetings and workshops 
• Produce documentation for creative tracking and insights based on in house data
• Work independently and without close supervision, but check-ins regularly 
• Be agile, take ownership of projects and responsibility quickly and efficiently to new demands, priorities or changes in direction 

Requirements 

• At least 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Understanding and experience working with casual mobile games
• Advanced knowledge of key creative software (Adobe Creative Suite)
• Experience working on live projects or products 
• UA/digital marketing knowledge is desirable but not essential
• 3D software & Unity knowledge is desirable but not essential
• JIRA experience desirable but not essential
• A portfolio of recent work demonstrating your skill and breadth of experience

What We Offer You

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Game Designer, you will be responsible for new features, up to and including bold beat scope and impact. You will take on more complex design challenges and lead the development of key game mechanics, levels, and features. As an adept in systems, mechanics, and player experience; you will be accountable for maintaining coherence and balance across entire game. Support the leaders by providing experiential insights from the player perspective. 

At Gram we embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

What You'll Do:

• Ideate and design new levels, gameplay, systems or features with minimal supervision
• Collaborate with developers, artists, product managers & other stakeholders to integrate design elements into the game
• Ensure technical feasibility, clear visual direction and high ROI from design solutions
• Conduct research and apply competition insights to support design concepts and ideas
• Create design solutions to drive business impact while leveraging player experience and game KPI’s
• Analyze and deconstruct competitor games to stay up to date on the market & share actionable insights & learnings
• Present compelling design pitches & project visions to stakeholders
• Create & maintain comprehensive game design documentation for the team
• Tune and balance complex gameplay mechanics to ensure an engaging player experience
• Playtest designs, conduct player research and iterate on designs based on feedback
• Prototype, propose new designs, and develop solutions to improve existing systems and address complex design problems, ensuring all efforts are explicitly aligned with the high-level strategic goals of the game
• Ensure a high level of quality to achieve the best player experience

What You Bring:

• Previous experience as a Game Designer 
• Established verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to understand and translate players’ requirements into product
• Clear cross‐functional communication at the team level, capable of explaining and evangelizing a design in conversation with peers

What We Offer You: 

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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