Build a game from the ground up with us

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

About us

AI-Future AG is a start-up from Basel. We are developing an AI-based learning game with a revolutionary didactic concept for children aged 9 to 13. The game is aimed directly at families in German-speaking countries.

The role

You position AI-Future AG and our learning game in the market. Marketing does not yet exist as a function of its own at our company: you build it from scratch, from positioning to market entry, working directly with the management team.

What you will do

• Develop the positioning and brand of AI-Future AG and our learning game, guided by the motto “Play. Learn. Grow. Discover.”
• Plan and carry out the market entry in German-speaking countries
• Build the product website as well as channels, content and public relations
• Explain to parents what makes our learning game different
• Sharpen the company’s profile towards applicants, partners and investors
• Set up key metrics and take responsibility for the marketing budget
• Work closely with game design and EdTech so that marketing only promises what the game delivers

What you bring

• Several years of experience in consumer marketing, ideally for games, apps, family or education products
• Experience in building a brand and a market entry from the very beginning
• A sense for responsible communication around products for children
• An independent, hands-on way of working in a small team
• Fluent German and very good English

What we offer

• A key role with plenty of room to shape things before market entry
• Short decision paths and direct collaboration with the management team
• Hybrid work in Basel

About us

AI-Future AG is developing an AI-based learning game with a revolutionary didactic concept for children aged 9 to 13.

The role

You develop learning tasks for the game and report directly to our EdTech lead. Your tasks end up in the game and are played by children.

What you will do

• Develop learning tasks, initially for primary school mathematics and German
• Derive tasks from the competences set out in the curricula
• For each task, formulate the learning objective, the expected key statements, assessment criteria and tiered hints
• Collect typical misconceptions children have, which the game can pick up on
• Revise tasks after testing them with children

What you bring

• Current university studies, for example primary teacher education, educational science, subject didactics or psychology
• Very good German and the ability to write clearly and precisely for children
• A careful, structured way of working
• An advantage: experience working with children, for example tutoring or internships

What we offer

• Work on a real product instead of practice exercises
• Professional supervision by our EdTech lead
• Working hours that fit around your studies