Game Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Game Design

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Job Description

As a Game Designer at MAG Interactive, you'll contribute significantly to the design and development of new games and features for existing live games. Responsibilities include designing game mechanics, improving overall game performance, keeping up-to-date with industry trends, analyzing player behavior using BI dashboards, and collaborating with teams to implement new ideas. You'll iterate on existing designs, work on level design and balancing, and ensure player engagement. Success in this role requires extensive experience with F2P mobile casual games, live operations experience, and an understanding of monetization strategies. Strong communication and data interpretation skills are also essential.
Must have:
  • Extensive F2P mobile game experience
  • Live operations experience (high DAU)
  • F2P monetization understanding
  • New design creation & iteration
  • Level design and balancing expertise
  • Data interpretation & communication skills
Good to have:
  • Unity experience
  • Prototyping skills
Perks:
  • Generous company bonus
  • Company mobile phone and contract
  • Favorable pension and private health insurance
  • Flexible work hours
  • Seasonal kick-offs
  • Gym allowance
  • Generous learning and development budget
  • Monthly after works
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Company-wide carbon offsetting
  • Free weekly Swedish lessons
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About MAG (in brief!)

At MAG Interactive we make mobile games that feel good. As a part of this fun and dynamic industry, it’s our mission to spread joy to players around the world. With over 350 million downloads globally, we credit our success to our awesome colleagues and we hope you'll join the team!

The Role - Game Designer

At MAG, we’re on a mission to create fun, rewarding, and unforgettable gaming experiences for players worldwide. As a Game Designer at MAG, you’ll play a key role in shaping both new game concepts and exciting features for our live games. From contributing to initial ideas to refining core mechanics, your work will ensure our players stay delighted and engaged.

Collaboration is at the heart of what we do. We thrive in an environment built on trust, drive, and creativity—values that drive us to consistently deliver top-tier mobile games.

We’re seeking a Game Designer who not only understands the elements behind today’s top-performing mobile games but also has the creativity to dream up fresh, inspiring ideas. If you can bring your concepts to life and communicate them with clarity and passion, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing new features, game mechanics and overall performance improvements of the games you work on together with the teams
  • Keep up to date with the latest F2P mobile games on the market in order to discover trends
  • Deconstruct various F2P mobile game mechanics in order to implement or adapt to MAG products
  • Utilize various Business Intelligence dashboards to better understand our players’ behavior
  • Regularly seek feedback and collaborate with wider teams at MAG to ensure you are making use of the knowledge we have internally.

Your skills/experience

  • Extensive experience working on mobile F2P casual games
  • Experience of working on live operations of high DAU games and the ability to successfully navigate the competing demands this brings.
  • Understanding of how to monetize a F2P mobile game
  • Proven track record of creating new designs and iterating on existing ones.
  • Experienced in level design and balancing
  • You have a curious and methodical mindset and you are good at interpreting data to understand our players’ experience
  • Excellent verbal communication skills; ability to enthuse others with your vision.
  • Conceptualizing, creating flowcharts and prototyping ideas.
  • You are enthusiastic and motivated to succeed
  • Fluent in English (both written and verbal)

Nice to have

  • Unity experience, to be able to prototype designs on your own

Perks and Benefits

  • Generous company bonus
  • Company mobile phone and contract
  • Favorable pension and private health insurance package
  • Flexible work hours
  • Seasonal kick-offs
  • Gym allowance
  • Generous learning and development budget
  • Monthly after works
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Company wide carbon off-setting and CSR initiatives
  • Free weekly Swedish lessons (if you want to learn the language)!

At MAG, we want all of our employees to feel valued, appreciated and empowered to bring their true selves to work!

Our recruitment processes are designed to prevent bias and discrimination against people regardless of; gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect.

About MAG

We are MAG Interactive – a leading mobile developer and publisher of casual mobile games built on a wealth of creativity and passion. We thrive on creating quality experiences that make our players want to come back for more. And Players agree! Combined, the Company’s games have been downloaded more than 350 million times. We create a good times factory with a global reach that continues to grow.

We are all part of a creative, positive and trusting environment where everyone has a sense of ownership over their activities and pride in their work. This open and collaborative working culture at MAG is key to our ability to continuously create top notch games.

Every game released from MAG Interactive has reached a multi-million player base and reached the #1 position in its category in a large number of countries. Our games have been selected Best of Google Play, Best Of App Store by Apple and have reached the #1 word game spot in over 100 countries.

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About The Company

We are MAG Interactive – a leading mobile developer and publisher of casual mobile games built on a wealth of creativity and passion. We thrive on creating quality experiences that make our players want to come back for more. And Players agree! Combined, the Company’s ten games have been downloaded more than 350 million times. We create a good times factory with a global reach that continues to grow.

We are all part of a creative, positive and trusting environment where everyone has a sense of ownership over their activities and pride in their work. This open and collaborative working culture at MAG is key to our ability to continuously create top notch games.

Every game released from MAG Interactive has reached a multi-million player base and reached the #1 position in its category in a large number of countries. Our games have been selected Best of Google Play, Best Of App Store by Apple and have reached the #1 word game spot in over 100 countries.

MAG has offices in Stockholm and Brighton and the company is listed on Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market with the ticker MAGI. FNCA Sweden AB is appointed Certified Advisor to MAG Interactive.

MAG Interactive was founded in Stockholm in 2010.

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