Help make the world a more playful place

We’re looking for creative, passionate people with big imaginations to join our team in Toronto.

About Pok Pok

Pok Pok is on a mission to raise the next generation of creative thinkers.

We’re the team behind the Apple Design Award-winning kids app, Pok Pok (Apple just named us one of the world’s best apps in 2023, too)! We design educational, digital toys that empower kids to think outside the box, dream big and experiment freely. We believe in making digital play as accessible, creative and educational as the toys we grew up playing with on the floors of our living rooms.

Pok Pok is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage people of all races, religions, genders, abilities and sexual orientations to apply. We want the products we develop to reflect the diversity of the world we live in, and it starts with our own team.

Current Positions

Influencer Marketing Specialist - Senior Unity Developer

Influencer Marketing Specialist

If you’re an experienced influencer marketer who wants to help change the world, we want to meet you!

About the Role

The Influencer Marketing Specialist will play an integral role in the success of our company. You will work closely with our marketing team to introduce Pok Pok to families through strategic partnerships and influencer collaborations. Your work will help make Pok Pok a household name, directly impacting our future as one of the most innovative, powerful brands in digital play and education.

We’re looking for someone who is motivated by our mission, is ready to work hard and is eager to affect positive change in our world, one young mind at a time. If you have a deep understanding of social media marketing and whose superpower is building genuine, strategic relationships, keep reading!

This is a hybrid, Toronto-based position with the flexibility to work from our office or remotely. Candidates must live in Ontario, come into our office as needed and be able to legally work in Canada.

Responsibilities

Manage all day-to-day influencer marketing and partnership strategy and operations, including research, execution and optimization on Meta, TikTok, YouTube and other social media platforms to grow our company and brand.
Source and build genuine relationships with influencers and strategic partners to increase growth, community and brand awareness at Pok Pok.
Oversee Pok Pok's influencer marketing pipeline and publishing calendar in collaboration with the rest of the marketing team, ensuring constant alignment with larger marketing goals across organic and paid marketing.
Make data-driven decisions to continually optimize influencer/partnership selection, creative briefs, CTAs and publishing time for maximum ROAS across all relevant channels.
Negotiate and manage all contract processes directly with influencers and their management teams to create hard-hitting, high-performing content that builds strategic value.
Manage the strategy and execution of Pok Pok’s affiliate marketing program.
Source and manage strategic partnerships with industry adjacent brands for social media giveaways and other mutually beneficial business initiatives.
Remain fiercely up-to-date on industry trends, emerging influencers, new social media channels and strategic partners.

You Have

3+ years of experience managing, executing and strategizing influencer marketing campaigns for a company or marketing agency.
A personality that is energized by meeting new people and connecting with others.
A deep understanding of what makes impactful, unique and high-performing social media content across all channels.
Superb knowledge of Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Twitter and other social platforms, including what makes a good content-channel fit and the latest trends on all of them.
An analytical and experimental mindset. You love digging into data to understand performance and strategize how to improve or replicate high performing content.
Excellent negotiation and interpersonal skills with a deep knowledge for the ins and out of influencer partnership contracts.
A keen eye for beautiful design, perfect editing and impactful video content.
An organizational mind with strong project management skills.
Excellent communication skills. You’re a connector who is great at summarizing ideas and distilling information.

Additional skills that will be very useful on the job

You're a parent who deeply understands our user demographic.
Previous experience working with parenting brands in the children's product category and/or mobile app industry.
Experience executing and managing an affiliate marketing program for a B2C company.
Experience sourcing, negotiating and managing strategic business partnerships.
Knowledge of mobile app marketing.

More About Pok Pok

We’re a small team of passionate, experienced creators based in Toronto. We love dogs, music, travel, video games, kids, cooking, yoga, building robots, going to museums, talking about things we’re watching right now and playing with old toys. We’re from all walks of life and are convinced that’s our secret sauce. We’re a female/parent-founded company, too!

A few more awesome things about this role:

You’ll have the unique opportunity to build, grow and make your mark joining a fast-growing start-up early on.
Work from our beautiful brick-and-beam office in the downtown core within walking distance to the Eaton Centre, St. Lawrence Market and Union Station.
Enjoy flexible working hours and arrangements, including working from home.
We offer 5 weeks of paid vacation, because life outside of work matters!
Competitive compensation including employee stock options.
We love field trips and like to go playtest with kids in our community, go on fact-finding trips for toy research, and learn about cool stuff at science centres, museums and toy stores. We have no fun at all.

Our Hiring Process

Tell us why you think this role is a good fit for you.

Send your resume and cover letter to our team at jobs@playpokpok.com and share something interesting about yourself that we can’t find on your resume.

If we’re interested in moving forward, you’ll get a very enthusiastic message from us to invite you to meet our team and chat more.

Senior Unity Developer

If you’re an experienced unity developer who wants to help change the world, we want to meet you!

About the Role

The Senior Unity Developer will play an integral role in the success of our company. You will work closely with our software development and creative teams to build and maintain core features of the app. You’ll be a key decision-maker and drive creative and technical innovation, directly impacting our future as one of the most innovative, powerful brands in digital play and education.

We’re looking for someone who is motivated by our mission, is ready to work hard and is eager to affect positive change in our world, one young mind at a time. If you are a very seasoned Unity developer with exceptional technical expertise and proven mentorship skills, keep reading!

Responsibilities

Build and maintain existing code infrastructure with great attention to detail, bringing the newest advances and best practices across the industry to Pok Pok.
You will develop core features and be a key decision-maker to help make improvements and innovations to our app, pipelines and workflows.
Collaborate closely with the production team including art/animation and the iOS/Android development teams to optimise all technical components of the app.
Use a data-driven approach to understand user behaviour and make strategic decisions around next steps.
Maintain a stable, reliable build pipeline and asset management systems.
Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices.
Mentor and manage a team of Unity software developers, supporting their technical and professional growth.

You Have

6+ years of Unity development experience for games on mobile devices, including debugging, profiling and optimization.
Incredible problem-solving skills. You’re naturally curious and will do whatever it takes to solve the problem.
An understanding of the cross section of languages, including C, C#, C++, bash scripting, python and Objective C (Swift and Java a bonus).
Experience working with open source projects and making forks.
The ability to combine a variety of tools to create an asset processing pipeline for image and video assets.
Longtime experience creating readable, well-commented, maintainable code.
Expertise in developing and maintaining large projects including troubleshooting and solving technical issues.
A high level theoretical knowledge about how operating systems handle processes, how media compression works (i.e. mpeg, jpg, ASTC, ETC), how rendering is performed (buffers, draw calls, vertex and fragment shaders), and hardware architecture including interaction between the CPU and GPU, RAM and storage.
Strong experience mentoring team members in Unity development and/or other technical disciplines.
Exemplary oral and written communication skills with both developers and non-developers. You can distil complex technical information into digestible content for non-technical people.
Theoretical knowledge about basic data structures and can design new ones. You are familiar with basic graph theory.
An understanding of software architecture and have the ability to design new systems, concurrency and application/system memory architecture and management.

Additional skills that will be very useful on the job

Previous experience working with children’s games or brands.
An eye for great design/game design sensibilities.
Experience with live-service titles.
Experience writing shader code/shading.

More About Pok Pok

A few more awesome things about this role:

You’ll have the unique opportunity to build, grow and make your mark joining a fast-growing start-up early on.
Work from our beautiful brick-and-beam office in the downtown core within walking distance to the Eaton Centre, St. Lawrence Market and Union Station.
Enjoy flexible working hours and arrangements, including working from home.
We offer 5 weeks of paid vacation, because life outside of work matters!
Competitive compensation including employee stock options.
We love field trips and like to go playtest with kids in our community, go on fact-finding trips for toy research, and learn about cool stuff at science centres, museums and toy stores. We have no fun at all.

Our Hiring Process

Tell us why you think this role is a good fit for you.

Send your resume and cover letter to our team at jobs@playpokpok.com and share something interesting about yourself that we can’t find on your resume.

If we’re interested in moving forward, you’ll get a very enthusiastic message from us to invite you to meet our team and chat more.