# Keywords Studios — Hiring Intelligence

> Generated: 2026-05-05 · Source: <https://yubhub.co/companies/keywords-studios> · API: <https://api.yubhub.co/stats/company/keywords-studios>

## Profile

- **Industry:** video game industry
- **HQ:** Dublin
- **Website:** <https://www.keywordsstudios.com>

## Hiring trajectory

- **Total enriched roles:** 153
- **26-week trend:** stable (week-over-week -87%)
- **14-day momentum:** 63 recent vs 0 prior · stable (+0%)
- **Market share:** 25.8% of industry (592 jobs across 7 companies) — rank 2

## Where the hiring is

| Category | Postings |
| --- | ---: |
| engineering | 82 |
| marketing | 14 |
| sales | 12 |
| finance | 11 |
| it | 8 |
| hr | 7 |
| operations | 7 |
| design | 4 |

## Geographic distribution

| Region | Postings | Share |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| APAC | 44 | 31.9% |
| India | 25 | 18.1% |
| Unknown | 25 | 18.1% |
| Canada | 16 | 11.6% |
| United States | 10 | 7.2% |
| EU | 9 | 6.5% |
| Latin America | 6 | 4.3% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2.2% |

### Emerging hubs (last 30 days)

- **Unknown:** 17 recent vs 8 prior (+113%)
- **Canada:** 13 recent vs 3 prior (+333%)
- **EU:** 6 recent vs 3 prior (+100%)
- **United Kingdom:** 3 recent vs 0 prior (+100%)

### Shrinking hubs (last 30 days)

- **APAC:** 7 recent vs 37 prior (-81%)
- **India:** 9 recent vs 16 prior (-44%)

## Disproportionate skills (Location Quotient vs industry peers)

LQ = (this company's share of postings with skill X) ÷ (peer industry's share of the same skill). Values >1 mean over-indexed; >2 means twice as common as peers.

| Skill | Postings | This company % | Peer industry % | LQ | Required % |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| English | 29 | 19% | 1.1% | 16.64 | 97% |
| Negotiation | 5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 14.35 | 60% |
| Sales | 5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 14.35 | 80% |
| Social Media | 5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 14.35 | 100% |
| Korean | 5 | 3.3% | 0.2% | 14.35 | 100% |
| Interpersonal Skills | 4 | 2.6% | 0.2% | 11.48 | 50% |
| Video Game Industry | 8 | 5.2% | 0.5% | 11.48 | 50% |
| Business Administration | 4 | 2.6% | 0.2% | 11.48 | 100% |
| Google Sheets | 4 | 2.6% | 0.2% | 11.48 | 75% |
| Time Management | 7 | 4.6% | 0.5% | 10.04 | 86% |
| Salesforce | 3 | 2% | 0.2% | 8.61 | 100% |
| PowerShell | 3 | 2% | 0.2% | 8.61 | 100% |
| French | 3 | 2% | 0.2% | 8.61 | 100% |
| MS Office | 4 | 2.6% | 0.5% | 5.74 | 100% |
| Localization | 9 | 5.9% | 1.1% | 5.16 | 89% |

## Salary positioning (USD, midpoint)

- **Company median:** $29,025 (12th percentile of industry)
- **Industry median:** $155,725 (sample n=10)
- **Disclosure:** 7% of company roles disclose salary vs 7% across industry

> ⚠️ Salary disclosed on fewer than 20% of roles — sample is small, treat ranges as indicative.

## Posting dynamics

- **Median days open (closed roles):** 6 (industry: 11)
- **Long-open postings (>90d still active):** 0
- **Closure rate (last 90d):** 28%

## AI exposure

- **Occupation-weighted score:** 0.307 (0 = manual / low automation, 1 = high automation potential)
- **Skill-weighted score:** 0.493

### Most-exposed roles

- **Community Manager** — 3 postings, score 0.165
- **Video Game Proofreader** — 2 postings, score 0.52
- **Specialized Services BDM** — 2 postings, score 0.043
- **Senior Research Associate - AI** — 2 postings, score 0.245
- **Research Associate - Fresher** — 2 postings, score 0.245

## Peer set

| Company | Postings | Similarity | Momentum |
| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [Electronic Arts](https://yubhub.co/companies/electronic-arts) | 388 | 43% | stable |
| [Respawn Entertainment](https://yubhub.co/companies/respawn-entertainment) | 13 | 20% | stable |
| [Valve Corporation](https://yubhub.co/companies/valve-corporation) | 17 | 17% | stable |
| [Playground Games](https://yubhub.co/companies/playground-games) | 10 | 17% | stable |

## Strategic themes

_Strategy briefs are generated weekly by an LLM analysis of the company's posting tag distribution. This section will populate once Phase 4 of the company-intelligence pipeline ships._

## Methodology & sources

- **Last enriched:** 2026-03-20T16:24:07.330Z
- **Company-data sources:** wikidata, github, news
- **Job-data refresh:** continuous (queue pipeline). Aggregations cached at the edge for up to 24 hours.
- **Caveats:** salary parser uses simple FX (snapshot 2024 rates); long-tail location strings may bucket as "Unknown"; AI-exposure scores derive from O*NET 30.2 + Anthropic Economic Index 2026-03-24.

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Data: <https://api.yubhub.co/stats/company/keywords-studios>