Game Designer

Kuuasema, a Helsinki-based game studio, is seeking a Game Designer to join their dynamic team. The studio works on both work-for-hire projects for companies like Supercell and their own IP, such as Cthulhu Keeper. The role involves working on a game with millions of players, focusing on creating engaging gameplay content, game modes, and systems for free-to-play and PvP mobile games, within a collaborative and agile team environment.

Must Have

• Design and iterate new features, mechanics, and content.
• Prioritize design to ensure smooth production.
• Ensure final deliverables are complete, balanced, and polished.
• Iterate and improve gameplay features.
• Balance existing gameplay elements for healthy KPIs.
• Contribute new design ideas and collaborate on roadmap.
• Share responsibility for the game’s overall design vision.
• Extensive experience in f2p game design.
• Experience in live operations, monetization, or economy.
• Strong player empathy.

Game Designer

Kuuasema, a leading game studio based in Helsinki, is seeking a seasoned Game Designer to join our dynamic team. Our business is divided between work for hire projects from renowned companies like Supercell, Red Bull Media House, Rovio, and Remedy, as well as the development of our own exciting IP, such as Cthulhu Keeper.

We are working on a game with millions of players, and that is both extremely exciting and challenging. We have a small, dynamic and agile team with a strong focus on fun and long-term goals. It is a very collaborative and open environment with loads of independence, flexibility, and trust – which allows us to push our game in really interesting directions.

As part of the Helsinki game team you will work closely with other designers, programmers, and artists to create engaging gameplay content, game modes, and systems that support and grow the game. Essential to this role is a deep understanding of gameplay, balancing, accessibility, and ongoing player experience within free-to-play and PvP mobile games.

Responsibilities:

• On-hands design and iteration of new features, game mechanics and gameplay content.
• Inform and prioritize the order of design to ensure smooth production efforts and clarity.
• Take high-level ownership of final deliverables to ensure the end-user experience is complete, balanced, polished, and tested.
• Iterate and improve gameplay features, and shape the way in which they’ll develop in the upcoming years.
• Balance existing gameplay elements to ensure healthy engagement KPIs, and maintain a healthy state of the overall game meta.
• Contribute new design ideas on ways to engage players, and collaborate with the team on the feature roadmap.
• Share responsibility for the game’s overall design vision and ensure that the whole development team shares and agrees on the vision.

Requirements:

• Extensive understanding, skills, and experience within f2p game design.
• Prior experience from live operations, monetization, and/or economy.
• Strong player empathy.

How to apply

For this position, we welcome applications from candidates who already have the right to work in Finland (e.g., a valid residence or work permit, or EU/EEA/Swiss citizenship). At this time, we are unfortunately not able to provide visa sponsorship.

Please submit the following documents with your application to jobs@kuuasema.com:

• CV
• Cover letter
• Examples of your most recent / favorite work across various platforms