Position Overview:
As a Monetization Content Intern, you’ll support the LiveOps and Product teams by researching trending cultural and digital content from social media and helping adapt those ideas into compelling in-game events, aesthetics, and narratives. You’ll work closely with designers, artists, and producers to craft the future of live events in Merge Dragons!
Duration: 6 Months
What You’ll Do:
- Identify and monitor emerging trends in digital culture, mobile gaming, lifestyle, pop culture, and social media.
- Translate trend research into pitches and briefs for new in-game events, assets, and themed content concepts.
- Collaborate with the Live Ops team to plan and refine seasonal content calendars.
- Assist with content audits to ensure thematic variety and freshness in the game’s live event cycles.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions, contributing your own ideas for engaging and timely content drops.
- Research competitors and analyze how other games leverage trends and events.
What You Bring:
- Undergraduates or postgraduates (who have graduated within the past 12 months), studying a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree.
- Creative approach combined with a collaborative and proactive attitude.
- Excellent research skills, with the ability to synthesize information into actionable insights.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong curiosity about pop culture, digital media, social trends, and content marketing.
- Passion for mobile games and familiarity with Merge Dragons! or similar titles.
- Current right to work in the UK.
- Ability to work from the Gram Games London office at least two days a week.
What You’ll Learn:
- How live operations content is built and managed in a top-performing mobile game.
- How to conduct creative tests and optimize content over time for specific audiences.
- The process of trend-based ideation and translating real-world influences into game design.
- How to collaborate cross-functionally between Product, Creative, and Marketing teams.
- Tools, processes, and pipelines used in a mobile game studio.
How to Apply?
You can 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?
Benefits
In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!
- Paid internship, with a competitive salary
- Private medical and dental care
- Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats
- Life insurance and the right to opt into our pension scheme
- Access to digital health care services
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
- Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!
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