Amir Satvat

Amir Satvat is an American business executive who has been a business development director at Tencent Games since 2023. He is known for his volunteer efforts in helping jobseekers and laid-off workers find positions in the video game industry.

His efforts in helping jobseekers began in November 2022 on his LinkedIn page, as a spreadsheet of video game job listings scraped from the web. This has since expanded to become a wider network of 14 job-seeking resources and support across multiple platforms. His community's efforts have helped over 5,000 people find work in the industry. He graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in 2000 and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in finance from Boston College. Satvat spent five years in graduate school to pursue three master's degrees; a degree in biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Business Administration in healthcare administration from the Wharton School, and a Master of Public Administration in health policy from New York University. In August 2023, he left Amazon to join Tencent Games as a business development director.

Satvat began his efforts helping others seek jobs in November 2022 after a Thanksgiving dinner, where he heard from friends who had received layoff notices just before the holiday and wanted an easier way to search for jobs.

Satvat's efforts expanded to become Amir Satvat's Games Community, which he maintains with a group of volunteers. They now operate a wider network of 14 job-seeking resources and support across multiple platforms, which include job boards and mentorship programs.

In addition to his role at Tencent, Satvat is a member of the advisory network at Vivrato, a strategic advisory organization for the games industry founded by Adam Boyes. He also serves as a special advisor to the Zero Abuse Project, an organization dedicated to ending child abuse through education and advocacy. His Games Community participates annually in Gamers for CHOC, a fundraising campaign supporting the Children's Hospital of Orange County. Many considered Satvat's emotional acceptance speech the highlight of the event. Some viewers suggested Satvat's role at Tencent made him "part of the problem" with layoffs and criticized the ceremony's failure to mention it. Four days after the show, Satvat said he had received "countless hateful messages", including antisemitic comments directed at his wife. He further stated that he has never laid off workers nor worked on "mergers and acquisitions at Tencent or Amazon". He was also honored with the inaugural Industry Impact Award from Game Dev Heroes for helping thousands find work during one of the industry’s most difficult periods.

That year, Amir Satvat's Games Community was named an official Industry and Media Partner of the Game Developers Conference, contributing 240 Expo Passes valued at over $100,000 to support jobseekers. He was also the recipient of the Unsung Hero Award at XDS 2025, in recognition of his contributions to community building, knowledge sharing, and support for professionals in external development and the wider video game industry.

Since 2023, Satvat has been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Video Games, an honor awarded to members whose content fosters sustained engagement and community impact.