Junior Game Planner

This full-time game planner position is intended for recent graduates pursuing a career in game planning. The role plans and delivers in-game events and other content from initial concept and specification development through development and ongoing operations.

Daily responsibilities include deciding game specifications, preparing specification documents, adjusting game balance, and managing the progress of voice and sound production. The planner also coordinates the progress of illustration and design work across the content development process. Depending on the applicant’s suitability, another position may be proposed.

Applicants must have graduated from or completed a university or graduate-school program, including a doctoral program, between March 2023 and March 2025. Social or professional experience is required. This must be the applicant’s first job change; internships and part-time work are excluded from this condition. Motivation to work as a game planner is required. Interest in games and entertainment content, a desire to contribute to the future of the games industry, and a willingness to take on the work needed to create content are listed as welcome attributes. Empathy with the company’s vision and mission statement is also sought.

The work concerns game and entertainment content and includes planning, production coordination, development, and live operations. No programming languages, software frameworks, or other specific technical tools are named in the posting.

The listed employment status is permanent, full-time, although the posting notes that a contract-employee arrangement may also apply. Annual compensation is determined according to experience, ability, and company rules. The structured job data lists annual compensation of JPY 4.5 million to JPY 12 million. The annual amount includes scheduled overtime and late-night work allowances, which are paid regardless of whether overtime occurs. A semiannual performance incentive is available separately from the annual amount.

Work is based at the Shibuya or Meguro office in Tokyo. Working hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with eight scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00 to 14:00. Average monthly overtime is approximately 18.5 hours based on 2025 results. The offices are smoke-free indoors in principle, with dedicated heated-tobacco smoking rooms.

Holidays include a two-day weekend on Saturdays and Sundays, public holidays, three summer-leave days taken between July 1 and November 30, year-end and New Year leave from December 29 to January 3, 10 days of annual paid leave granted on the joining date in the first year, and condolence leave. Insurance includes health, employment, workers’ compensation, and employees’ pension insurance.

Support programs include company meetings, official clubs, social-event cost assistance, a game playroom, an onboarding training program, CyStudy, Skill Thursday, and a mentor-trainer program for new and second-new graduates. Health-related support includes influenza vaccination, an in-house permanent osteopathy service, free soft drinks, lunch assistance, a babysitter-use discount, and brain checkups. Other support for permanent employees includes rent assistance under the two-station and anywhere rules, relocation allowance, child allowance, and a corporate defined-contribution pension plan. Side jobs are prohibited.