Game Director with Producing Responsibility

About us

AI-Future AG is an EdTech start-up in Basel. We are developing an AI-based learning game with a revolutionary didactic concept: a voice-led 3D game for children aged 9 to 13, as an app for smartphone and tablet.

The role

We are looking for the person who turns this prototype into a game that children want to play for years, and who leads the team there.

What you will do

• You own the overall creative direction: game feel, tone, art direction and scope from vertical slice to launch.
• You keep the overview of the entire game and decide what gets built and what gets cut.
• You run production: roadmap, milestones, priorities and dependencies between game design, Unity development, asset production, backend/AI and content.
• You coordinate an interdisciplinary team and make sure nobody is blocked.
• You work closely with our Lead Game Designer and our EdTech Lead. Both own the design canon and the didactics and hold a veto there; you deliver within this framework and develop it further together with them.
• You translate findings from playtests with children into clear design decisions.
• You report directly to the CEO.

Your profile

• Several years of experience as a game director, creative director, lead designer or producer, with at least one shipped game
• Experience with games for children or families
• Leadership experience with small, interdisciplinary teams and your own judgement on what is feasible in Unity/3D
• Demonstrable strength in production planning and scope discipline
• Fluent German and English
• The conviction that a learning game must first be a good game, and the willingness to accept educational guardrails as a design constraint

An advantage: experience with cozy games, voice-based or AI-supported games, live operations and continuous content production.

What we offer

• Real creative authority over a product with a mechanic that does not yet exist in this form
• A small, experienced team with short decision paths
• Hybrid work with an office in Basel
• Funding from existing investors and a research partnership with FHNW