A Thinking Ape
A Thinking Ape Headquarters Location
A Thinking Ape Entertainment Ltd.
c/o WeWork
555 Burrard Street, 1st Floor
Vancouver, BC
V7X 1M8
Canada
About A Thinking Ape
Mission: We build communities.
We create mobile games with a social core that engage players and provoke us with creative new problems.
When we set out to make great games with massive online communities, we knew that we first had to create the ideal environment for building ambitious things. A place where brilliant and inspiring people could come together and build games that make millions of players happy. We realized that we needed to find incredibly talented people and get out of their way. Since then we've paid careful attention to how we like to work together. This is a brief summary of our guiding principles:
*OWNERSHIP: We take complete ownership of our work and act in the best interests of the company. We’re the type of people who care - a lot. It’s never “not my job.”
*HAVE WONDERFUL ARGUMENTS: We’re comfortable thinking deeply about important issues, and care enough to respectfully challenge decisions when we disagree. Mutual respect and checked egos allow for productive debate and better outcomes than any we would have achieved individually.
*THE BEST IDEAS WIN: We want everyone involved in problem-solving, regardless of their position. We frequently seek feedback from each other and our players in order to challenge our assumptions, and make data-driven decisions when possible.
*KEEP GROWING: We’re always building and improving on our skills and processes. We understand that when we learn, we see exponential improvement in ourselves, our products and our company. We’re never finished learning.
Together our values and mission are the driving force for why ATA exists and how we operate as a team. These cultural foundations are embedded in everything we do, especially in how we hire. We aim to hire people who share our values, believe in building communities and can add to our culture.
A Thinking Ape appoints Tayber Voyer CEOWe create mobile games with a social core that engage players and provoke us with creative new problems.
When we set out to make great games with massive online communities, we knew that we first had to create the ideal environment for building ambitious things. A place where brilliant and inspiring people could come together and build games that make millions of players happy. We realized that we needed to find incredibly talented people and get out of their way. Since then we've paid careful attention to how we like to work together. This is a brief summary of our guiding principles:
*OWNERSHIP: We take complete ownership of our work and act in the best interests of the company. We’re the type of people who care - a lot. It’s never “not my job.”
*HAVE WONDERFUL ARGUMENTS: We’re comfortable thinking deeply about important issues, and care enough to respectfully challenge decisions when we disagree. Mutual respect and checked egos allow for productive debate and better outcomes than any we would have achieved individually.
*THE BEST IDEAS WIN: We want everyone involved in problem-solving, regardless of their position. We frequently seek feedback from each other and our players in order to challenge our assumptions, and make data-driven decisions when possible.
*KEEP GROWING: We’re always building and improving on our skills and processes. We understand that when we learn, we see exponential improvement in ourselves, our products and our company. We’re never finished learning.
Together our values and mission are the driving force for why ATA exists and how we operate as a team. These cultural foundations are embedded in everything we do, especially in how we hire. We aim to hire people who share our values, believe in building communities and can add to our culture.
https://athinkingape.com/medias/pdfs/press-release-march-8-2023.pdf
Proudly announcing that we are one of the 2022 Best Workplaces in CanadaWe're so happy to have made the 2022 list of Best Workplaces in Canada once again. Employee satisfaction is something we take very seriously at A Thinking Ape. We ask for feedback several times per year on how we can best serve our teams.
To be eligible for this list, organizations must be Great Place to Work-Certified™ in the past year, and have a minimum of 10 employees. The list is ranked 1-50 and represents multiple industries and sizes of organizations. Seventy five percent of each organization’s score is based on confidential employee feedback, from the globally recognized Trust Index® Survey. The remaining twenty-five percent is based on quality, quantity and effectiveness of the programs and policies which support their employees and corporate culture.
Listen to our senior engineers explain why they are happy at A Thinking ApeTo be eligible for this list, organizations must be Great Place to Work-Certified™ in the past year, and have a minimum of 10 employees. The list is ranked 1-50 and represents multiple industries and sizes of organizations. Seventy five percent of each organization’s score is based on confidential employee feedback, from the globally recognized Trust Index® Survey. The remaining twenty-five percent is based on quality, quantity and effectiveness of the programs and policies which support their employees and corporate culture.
"I love getting to stretch these muscles, flexing these wings and getting to own something from start to finish."
Come Join us in 2022!Single City, Party in My Dorm, Kingdoms of Heckfire are our biggest games. Please check us out, and let us know if you're interested in joining our team!
Party In My Dorm: 2022 Pride Update and Charity DonationRepresentation is something that is near and dear to our hearts here at ATA. In 2022, we had an extra special Pride event in our game Party in My Dorm!
Remote First Playbook 2022From wherever you are reading this we are so happy you're here! This playbook will explain what Remote-First means to ATA, how we got here and what it means for our people. To make sure we have some common ground across teams, we have three guiding principles for Remote-First.
1. We value trust and flexibility over rigid policy.
2. We measure impact, not hours worked. We expect folks to be ambitious on behalf of our company. Don't believe us? Wait until you read about our flexible time philosophy!
3. In the spirit of decentralization, every team is free to create their own remote work norms, as long as they’re built around trust and ownership, and are well documented for new members (and others).
Read more here:
https://www.athinkingape.com/static/www/pdfs/ata-remote-first-playbook.pdf?v=1
Excited to announce that we've been awarded a spot on Great Place to Work: Best Workplaces for Mental Wellness 2022 list.1. We value trust and flexibility over rigid policy.
2. We measure impact, not hours worked. We expect folks to be ambitious on behalf of our company. Don't believe us? Wait until you read about our flexible time philosophy!
3. In the spirit of decentralization, every team is free to create their own remote work norms, as long as they’re built around trust and ownership, and are well documented for new members (and others).
Read more here:
https://www.athinkingape.com/static/www/pdfs/ata-remote-first-playbook.pdf?v=1
In October ATA was awarded a spot on Great Place to Work: Best Workplaces for Mental Wellness 2022.
At ATA the health and safety of our employees is our number one priority and we know how much mental health contributes to our overall wellness. The games industry as a whole doesn’t have a great reputation for work/life balance which makes this award and this topic all the more important to us as a company.
Our teams work together to set project deadlines to avoid going beyond our teams’ capacity and our leaders take the mental health of team members seriously. We talk about mental health in onboarding, leads training and many other points in the employee journey to emphasize and highlight the mental health benefits and flexibility available to our employees.
Thank you to everyone at ATA for all you do to create a safe place for people to do their best work on the good days, the bad days and everything in between.
At ATA the health and safety of our employees is our number one priority and we know how much mental health contributes to our overall wellness. The games industry as a whole doesn’t have a great reputation for work/life balance which makes this award and this topic all the more important to us as a company.
Our teams work together to set project deadlines to avoid going beyond our teams’ capacity and our leaders take the mental health of team members seriously. We talk about mental health in onboarding, leads training and many other points in the employee journey to emphasize and highlight the mental health benefits and flexibility available to our employees.
Thank you to everyone at ATA for all you do to create a safe place for people to do their best work on the good days, the bad days and everything in between.
Number of Employees in A Thinking Ape
51 to 200
Industry