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What they do

Amanotes publishes mobile music games. Bill Vo and Silver Nguyen founded it in 2014. Its games include Magic Tiles 3, Tiles Hop, Dancing Road, and Duet Cats. The company counts over 3.5 billion downloads and calls itself the number one music game publisher in the world. Uplive, a subsidiary, publishes games and apps and hires on the same board.

What they value

• Aim for Growth: learn, unlearn, and relearn. Try new things, fail fast, and fail cheap.
• Be on Stage: do what you say, and act to get results. Do not wait, hope, or blame.
• Customer First: use data and the feedback of customers to decide, and play the games as a customer.
• Music in daily work: the company holds music events, and each new hire prepares a performance.
• Fair reward: a flexible budget that each person spends on learning or well-being.
• Uplive names its own two values: Extreme Ownership and Relentless Learning.

Where they hire

All 40 Postings name Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Lever marks 39 as on site and one, a freelance motion design role, as remote. Most Postings give 12 days of work from home each year. Six Postings offer relocation support. No Posting mentions a visa or the right to work.

Teams and roles

The board has 40 Postings. Amanotes has 17, and Uplive has 23, each marked "UPLIVE Company" in its title.

• Amanotes product: 10 Postings. The LiveOps team, which runs games after their release, wants a Product Lead, a Senior Product Owner, a Senior Game Designer, and a Senior Product Data Analyst. Others are a Head of LiveOps, a Head of Music App, a Head of Product (Game), a Music App Product Manager, a Platform Product Owner, and a Technical Product Director.
• Amanotes data: an Analytics Engineer, a Senior Data Scientist, and a Data Manager.
• Amanotes creative: two Senior Multimedia Designers and a freelance motion designer, who make video ads for the games and the music app.
• Amanotes tech: one Site Reliability Engineer, a role about cloud security.
• Uplive marketing: 9 Postings in user acquisition (UA), the paid advertising that brings new players, and in performance marketing.
• Uplive LiveOps: 7 Postings. They are a Head of Games, a Head of LiveOps, a Product Lead, a Game Art Director, a 2D UI Artist, a 2D VFX Artist, and a Senior Unity Developer.
• Uplive creative: 5 Postings for creative strategists, a Creative Manager, and an AI video editor.
• Uplive others: one Android developer and one Talent Acquisition Business Partner.

What they look for

Every Posting is in English, and 22 of the 40 ask for English, most often fluent in writing and speech. Three Postings also ask for Vietnamese.

Experience in mobile games or mobile apps repeats across teams. Product roles want people who owned live products and who know retention, monetization, and measures such as lifetime value (LTV). The Product Lead role asks for 5 or more years in product management. UA roles want hands-on work with ad networks such as Meta, Google Ads, TikTok, and AppLovin, and with measures such as cost per install (CPI) and return on ad spend (ROAS). The UA Lead role asks for 4 or more years in UA and 2 or more years as a manager.

The data analyst, data scientist, and analytics engineer roles ask for SQL and Python. The Analytics Engineer role adds dbt and Google BigQuery. The Android role asks for 2 or more years with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. The Site Reliability Engineer role asks for 3 or more years in cloud security and hands-on work with Google Cloud. The Senior Unity Developer role asks for Unity and Agile or Scrum experience.

Many Postings ask for work with AI tools. Designers use AI tools to make ads faster, the Android role expects daily use of AI coding agents, and the Analytics Engineer builds tools for AI agents. Several Postings name a passion for music and games as a plus.