Senior Game Designer

About the role

Senior Game Designer is a production driver who controls the quality of features, proposes and implements new ideas for the development of game modes, and leads the team. You will share best game design practices, onboard and develop game designers, and participate in the assessment of all specialists on the team.

Responsibilities

• Planning the development of a feature from a game design point of view: writing concepts and GDD, developing new game mechanics, working out the internal economy and monetization of the game

• Development of independent game modes through AB tests

• Production control: evaluation of builds and responsibility for the quality of implementation

• Release new events in every version

Requirements

• Experience as a lead game designer, senior game designer

• Expertise in LiveOps, monetization, and formation of short- and long-term product goals

• Ability to work with game metrics and build hypotheses for game development based on them

• Understanding of the trends in the mobile gaming market

• Fluency in Russian

Nice to have

• Experience in developing casual games in the Expeditions, Match-3, Solitaire, Merge genres 

We offer

• An opportunity for continuous professional development on an expert team of game designers and producers: we have a huge knowledge base and a mentoring system that allows you to adapt quickly.
• Virtually unlimited resources and access to leading specialists from any department to solve the most complex problems.
• Cross-product initiatives. For example, we are constantly experimenting with and introducing new technologies: AI to speed up pre-production and to calibrate the difficulty of levels using bots on neural networks, ML to introduce personalization of the gaming experience.
• The ability to move between areas and not only within one product (LiveOps development, new games in production, marketing creatives), and the opportunity to participate in the development of cross-product initiatives that reach the level of the entire company.
• The freedom to switch out processes and approaches for more efficient ones without lengthy approvals or bureaucracy.