About Big Viking Games
Big Viking Games is a Canadian gaming company focused on building, operating, and growing long-standing online game communities. Our games have entertained players for years, supported by loyal audiences, live operations, evolving content systems, product innovation, and deep player-driven economies.
Our flagship titles, YoWorld and FishWorld, have served millions of players over their lifetime. These are enduring live-service virtual worlds with rich in-game economies, virtual goods, social interaction, and long-term player engagement at their core.
We are entering a new phase of modernization and growth, with a focus on stronger operating discipline, better execution systems, practical AI adoption, faster decision-making, and scalable workflows that help our teams perform at a higher level.
About the Role
Big Viking Games is hiring an Executive Business Partner to support the CEO and Executive Team from our Toronto office.
This is a full-time, in-person role based at our Queens Quay West office, Monday to Friday.
This is not a traditional administrative role. It is a high-trust, high-ownership position designed to create leverage for the CEO and Executive Team by improving time management, follow-through, coordination, recruiting flow, executive communication, and operating rhythm.
The right person is highly organized, fast, discreet, AI-savvy, low ego, and comfortable working in a
founder-led, fast-moving environment. You will manage executive priorities, calendars, meeting preparation, follow-ups, recruiting coordination, office operations, and selected brand or content support.
You will be expected to use AI tools proactively to reduce manual work, improve documentation, accelerate research, summarize information, draft communications, and create repeatable workflows.
What You’ll Do
Office of the CEO Operations
- Serve as a key coordination partner for the CEO and Executive Team.
- Track decisions, follow-ups, commitments, and action items from executive discussions.
- Ensure CEO-driven priorities do not stall between functions.
- Help create structure, visibility, and accountability around executive priorities.
- Prepare concise briefing notes, summaries, meeting materials, and follow-up documents.
- Handle confidential information with judgment, discretion, and professionalism.
CEO Calendar, Time, and Priority Management
- Own and manage the CEO’s calendar with discipline and attention to priorities.
- Schedule internal and external meetings, interviews, leadership sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
- Protect focus time and reduce reactive scheduling.
- Ensure meetings have clear context, materials, objectives, and outcomes.
- Anticipate conflicts, bottlenecks, and missing information before they become problems.
- Help the CEO enter meetings context-complete and prepared.
Recruiting Coordination
- Partner with the CEO, People team, and hiring leaders on active recruiting efforts.
- Coordinate candidate interviews, scheduling, communications, and follow-ups.
- Prepare interview briefs, candidate summaries, scorecards, and meeting context.
- Track CEO feedback and ensure it is routed back to the appropriate hiring stakeholders.
- Help keep recruiting loops moving quickly, cleanly, and professionally.
- Maintain organized candidate documentation and hiring-related follow-ups.
Administrative, Office, and Personal Support
- Support travel planning, logistics, reservations, expenses, vendor coordination, and office services.
- Assist with select personal logistics or concierge-style tasks where appropriate to free up CEO bandwidth.
- Help keep the Toronto office organized, guest-ready, and operationally smooth.
- Welcome visitors, coordinate internal events, and support team meetings or socials.
- Liaise with building management, vendors, and service providers as needed.
- Maintain supplies, equipment coordination, and office-related follow-ups.
Brand, Content, and Special Projects
- Support internal and external brand initiatives where needed.
- Help maintain content calendars, draft basic social or employer-brand content, and coordinate publishing.
- Assist with light media workflows, including uploading assets, organizing files, formatting content, and coordinating edits.
- Collaborate with design or marketing partners to keep materials consistent and on brand.
- Use AI-powered research and drafting tools to support content development, summaries, and special projects.
- Track simple engagement metrics or weekly highlights where helpful.
Systems, SOPs, and AI Enablement
- Build and maintain lightweight SOPs for recurring executive, recruiting, office, and administrative workflows.
- Use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms to improve speed, organization, and quality.
- Automate or simplify repetitive coordination wherever practical.
- Create structured task lists, follow-up systems, documentation, and briefing formats.
- Continuously look for ways to reduce manual work and improve execution speed.
- Help create repeatable systems that make the CEO and Executive Team more effective.
Requirements
What You Bring
- 4+ years of experience in an Executive Assistant, Executive Operations, Business Partner, Administrative, Operations, Recruiting Coordination, or similar role.
- Experience supporting senior leaders, founders, CEOs, or executive teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong calendar management, scheduling, prioritization, and follow-through discipline.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong judgment, discretion, and comfort handling confidential information.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities without losing track of commitments.
- Comfortable working with a direct, analytical, fast-moving executive.
- Strong ownership mindset with low ego and high responsiveness.
- Ability to create structure where process is missing or still being built.
- High proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, and modern collaboration tools.
- Comfort using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar tools in daily workflows.
- Ability to work in person from our Toronto office five days per week.
- Willingness to occasionally support off-site coordination, event logistics, or select personal errands.
- Valid driver’s license and access to a personal vehicle is preferred for occasional errands, event support, or off-site logistics.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting a founder, CEO, or high-velocity executive.
- Experience in gaming, technology, SaaS, digital products, media, or live-service environments.
- Experience coordinating recruiting processes or executive interviews.
- Experience with Notion, Asana, Canva, Airtable, or other productivity and knowledge management tools.
- Experience with employer brand, social media coordination, content calendars, or basic marketing operations.
- Experience managing or coordinating virtual assistants, vendors, contractors, or external service providers.
- Experience building SOPs, task systems, workflow automation, or AI-enabled operating processes.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a highly capable operator who creates leverage. They do not wait to be told every next step. They anticipate needs, identify gaps, clarify priorities, and make sure important things do not get dropped.
They are comfortable being close to decision-making, but do not need the spotlight. They can move between calendar management, recruiting coordination, executive follow-up, office logistics, brand support, and
AI-enabled workflow improvement without losing discipline or quality.
This role is best suited for someone who wants exposure, ownership, and growth inside a founder-led gaming company, while helping the CEO and Executive Team operate with more speed, clarity, and focus.
Benefits
Compensation
The expected base salary range for this role is CAD $70,000 to $100,000, depending on experience, capability, and fit.
For candidates with deeper executive operations, CEO support, recruiting, AI workflow, and systems-building experience, total base compensation may extend up to CAD $120,000.
Benefits
Group Retirement Savings Plan matching and participation.
Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision coverage.
Health and Wellness spending account.
Generous time off policies.
High-impact role supporting executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
Exposure to the inner workings of a live-service gaming company.
Hands-on learning and mentorship from experienced leaders across disciplines.
Accessibility and Accommodation
Big Viking Games is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. We welcome applications from individuals of all abilities and will provide accommodations throughout the hiring process as needed.
If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support your needs.
