Join Kano, a successful remote-first indie game studio, as a Growth Marketer to drive new player acquisition. You'll manage a significant ad budget, optimize campaigns across major platforms, and collaborate to scale popular mobile free-to-play games profitably.
This is an opportunity to work for a remote-first company. Must be currently living in and legally eligible to work in Canada.
Location: Remote (BC preferred) Reports To: Senior UA Growth Manager / Marketing Lead
Kano is a successful, founder-led game studio with a 15+ year track record in building free-to-play games with loyal communities. With two product lines — mobile idle games and long-running text-based social RPGs — and a fully remote team of 40, we're focused on sustainable growth, strong player engagement, and profitable user acquisition.
We're looking for a Growth Marketer to help drive new player acquisition across our portfolio. This is a hands-on role for someone early in their growth marketing career who wants to own real campaigns, learn fast, and grow their impact. You'll manage a meaningful ad budget from day one, run and optimize campaigns across major platforms, and work closely with our senior UA and LiveOps teams to scale our games profitably.
Run and Optimize Paid Campaigns
Analyze and Report on Performance
Collaborate Across Teams
Support Organic Growth
At Kano, you won't be a small cog buying ads to a fixed playbook. You'll get real ownership of live campaigns and budget, direct mentorship from experienced UA leaders, and a clear path to grow into more senior growth marketing roles. If you're hungry to learn how to scale games profitably, this is a place to do it.
($60,000 – $80,000)
The listed pay range reflects the potential earnings for this role. Actual compensation will depend on experience, skills, and alignment with company needs, typically falling toward the midpoint for most candidates.
Kano is a remote-first workplace with an in-person attendance requirement 2-6 times a year.
What we offer
About Kano
Since inception, Kano has released twelve gaming titles (seven of which are live serviced today), with over 35 million downloads and close to $100M in sales.
Bootstrapped in 2008, and achieving profitability in 2009, Kano continues to grow its team, game portfolio and player base as an independent gaming studio, with hit games like Mob Wars, Idle Distiller and Monster Country.
Canadian owned and full-remote, we believe in giving small teams of talented people challenging problems and getting out of their way. That’s why we look for the best and brightest to join our team; people who have talent, vision, and commitment.
Check out this article If you'd like to get some insight into our hiring process, our employee manual to understand how and why we do things the way we do, and this fun little video for an intro to the team!
*Kano is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, religion, marital status or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law*
- Manage and optimize paid user acquisition campaigns across platforms like Meta Ads and Google UAC. - Own day-to-day management of a $100K+ monthly ad budget, including optimizations and bid adjustments. - Track and report on core UA metrics (ROAS, CAC, retention, LTV). - Work with analysts to interpret campaign performance and cohort data. - Partner with LiveOps for ad creative development and align acquisition with game updates. - Support ASO efforts including keyword testing and metadata updates. - 1-3 years of digital marketing experience, ideally in paid social or app/mobile campaigns. - Hands-on experience managing campaigns on Meta Ads and/or Google UAC. - Comfort reading performance data and a genuine curiosity about results. - Strong attention to detail and an experimentation mindset. - Clear communicator thriving in a remote-first team.
