We make software and games with people who notice details, challenge decisions and take ownership of the experience they create. Bring your judgment, curiosity and craft to a team that puts them to work.
VANCOUVER ROOTS / REMOTE COLLABORATION / HUMAN AUTHORSHIPWe care about how a product feels to use, how well it works, and how someone feels when they put it down. The whole experience matters: finding the right control, recovering from a mistake, finishing the job, or getting lost in a game for a while.
Our idea of humane interface design starts with common sense. If an object looks movable, you should be able to move it. If a familiar action seems like it ought to work, the interface should meet that expectation. A computer should leave room for your imagination, rather than train you to stop expecting things from it. Clear feedback and dependable behavior make that freedom useful.
Games can offer happiness, escape and a place to belong. Tools can make a difficult working day easier. A client’s problem may come from software, a construction workflow, a creative trade or an industry we have to learn about together. Our contract work has always crossed disciplines, industries and crafts; the same heart runs through it all.
We put the wellbeing of our staff and the future of the products ahead of looking successful for an afternoon. Cash flow matters because it supports people and useful work—not because the company needs to become its own most important product. We invest in the tools, working conditions and time people need to deliver good work. We will not trade people’s futures or a product’s health for a polished image, inside or outside the studio.
We call our approach Humanist Design: useful controls, consistent behavior and systems people can understand through use. A document should remain the same object across its views; a reasonable action should have a reasonable result. Powerful tools should make room for individual judgment and experimentation.
For our team, that means testing the complete experience, questioning arbitrary restrictions and keeping the small human decisions that give a product its character.
Read our Humanist Design philosophy ↗We are building a sustainable company around creative work. That means being clear about the practical things, as well as the things we believe.
We use common base-pay bands across disciplines at comparable seniority, benchmarked to the highest-paying role at that level. Owners and senior management receive that same base pay without a leadership premium or a separate negotiated package.
Individual negotiations, raises, progression and specialist arrangements remain available to staff and contractors. We discuss the role’s pay, scope and terms before work begins.
Our owners and management work hands-on with the games every day. Non-technical staff play daily milestones too, so conversations about the work begin with the experience of the person actually using it.
You should not have to translate every creative decision through a hierarchy of people who have never picked up the controls.
Staff and contractors have substantial ownership of how they carry out their work. Our creative meetings are open to anyone working on the games who wants to listen or contribute, digitally or in person when practical.
Responsibility includes the freedom to spot a better route, ask a difficult question and explain why a detail matters.
Our creator-first model is designed to give original creators an irrevocable, non-exclusive licence back to the work they make for us, including the ability to reuse, adapt and build upon it. Winnitude! keeps its own continuing rights to use the work; neither side can take the other’s agreed use away.
Both sides retain room to create. The written agreement defines the scope, including client-owned material, third-party rights and confidential information. It is a practical shared-use arrangement, rather than a promise that either party can override someone else’s rights.
We do not discriminate on protected grounds, and we do not treat criminal records, an unconventional background, neurotype, or a history of addiction, substance misuse or casual drug use as shorthand for someone’s ability or worth. You do not need to disclose your medical history or private life to make your case. Job-related responsibilities, safety and respectful conduct apply to everyone, with appropriate accommodation.
We look for the strongest overall contribution: demonstrated skill, dependable delivery, thoughtful collaboration and the less easily measured ways someone helps a team do better work. Understanding our philosophy and believing in the projects matters. Agreement with every decision does not. Sharp eyes, awkward questions and a useful nitpick can catch the thing the rest of us have looked at for too long.
We consider the continuity the role needs: seeing a contract through, or helping build a lasting team in a continuing position. That is about the scope, availability and commitments discussed with you—not assumptions about identity, health, family circumstances or background. We discuss concrete examples from your work and interview, and consider what you would add to the team rather than looking for someone like the people already here.
We talk through your experience and use short, role-relevant questions or exercises. The process does not include days-long take-home projects or unpaid production work.
Before a session, we explain the task, expected time and permitted tools. A brief skills exercise may be completed without automated assistance so we can understand your own reasoning. That is different from production work, where our engineering policy allows AI assistance under human direction and review.
Any task-focused screen sharing is agreed in advance. Tell us about accessibility needs or practical constraints so we can arrange a suitable format. You will know who you are meeting and what the next stage involves.
We cannot interview every applicant. Candidates selected for interview receive a direct invitation and details of the next step. You can follow up through the contact form or careers@winnitude.ca.
Start with a message about the role, a portfolio or relevant examples, and your availability. We review the fit ourselves and contact candidates we would like to meet.
Our current public route is the contact form or careers@winnitude.ca. Tell us which role interests you and link work you can discuss. Do not send identity documents, banking information or other sensitive records.
We review relevant skills, judgment and collaboration rather than automatically rejecting people by résumé keywords. If we invite you to interview, we explain the format and next steps directly.
The role titles describe the responsibilities we need filled. You do not need a conventional career path or every item on the ideal-candidate list. Show us relevant work and how you approach problems; we assess whether your demonstrated ability fits the role.
Remote collaboration is central to how we work. Tell us where you are, when you are available and the kind of working arrangement that fits. Location, hours and contract terms are discussed for each engagement.
Contract · possibility of renewal
Make small games that teach us something. Build sample games, tutorials and in-house projects that put Platinum Game Creator through its paces—and help make the whole PlatinumSDK ecosystem better.
We agree the contract’s term, hours, deliverables and payment schedule together before work starts.
In your application: Show us a game, tool, script collection or tutorial you can talk through. Tell us about one small tool behavior you would fix, and why.
Apply for this role ↗Contract · paid per work item
Give characters weight, intention and personality. We need an animator who can produce strong, usable work on a tight schedule and collaborate comfortably across game and client pipelines.
Each work item has an agreed brief, fee, delivery date, acceptance criteria and revision scope before work begins.
In your application: A demo reel is required. Identify your contribution to collaborative work and include examples that show both motion quality and production reliability.
Apply for this role ↗Part-time contract
Keep a creative studio’s financial records accurate and useful. Bring order to the everyday financial work so the people making games and software can plan with a clear view of the business.
Scope, hours, reporting arrangements and rate will be agreed before engagement.
In your application: Tell us about the kinds of businesses you have supported, the systems you use and your availability for a part-time contract.
Apply for this role ↗We know this matters to people. You should not have to wait for an interview to find out where we stand. We welcome technical progress while keeping authorship, requirements and creative judgment with the people making the work.
We encourage developers to use capable frontier AI agents where they help deliver good engineering. The requirements, design intent, testing, feel, tuning and configuration must still come from human minds and hands. An agent does not get to invent the product brief, redefine a ticket or make creative decisions on its own.
You remain responsible for the changes: understand them, review them, test them and make sure they meet our standards. A large amount of generated code is not a useful result if it adds friction, weakens stability or changes the feel of the game.
We believe the minutiae matter. A slight imperfection, a useful unintended behavior, a particular calculation, a carefully chosen value or a few milliseconds can communicate something—much as individual brushstrokes contribute to an oil painting. Human judgment decides what belongs, what needs fixing and what gives the work its character.
Send a résumé, a note about why this role fits, and work you would like us to see. A cover letter is welcome; a clear message works too.
We review applications as people. We are interested in what you made, what you learned and how you work with others.
We use your contact details, work samples and the information you choose to share to assess your interest in a role. Recruitment material is reviewed by authorized staff and handled privately.
Use our contact form to ask about access, correction or deletion, quoting your application reference. Do not include identity documents, banking details or other sensitive information. Any retention requirements applying to a hiring decision still apply.
Use our contact form or email careers@winnitude.ca to tell us which role interests you, share work samples and describe your availability. A concise introduction is enough to start the conversation.
Contact the studio ↗