Game Designer

At Sorare, we bet on passionate and innovative people! Are you looking for an empowering environment to grow professionally and personally? Join us in this tremendous adventure!

Our Mission

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience and marketplace featuring officially licensed digital player cards. With Sorare you build legacy teams –  buying, selling, collecting and trading player cards -- and compete with them in free-to-play fantasy games to win rewards week over week and season over season, just like a professional sports owner.

Sorare is revolutionizing digital sports fandom, and now has over 3,5 million users across 180 countries. More than 300 iconic teams, clubs, and organizations including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, NBA, NBPA, MLB, MLBPA, and many others have partnered with Sorare to build the next sports entertainment giant.

Our Journey

Sorare was founded by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort in 2018 in Paris to bring sports fans across the globe closer to the players, teams, and leagues they love.

With 130-plus employees across France and US, Sorare is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups and recently raised a $680 million Series B funding round from world-class investors including SoftBank, Accel, and Benchmark. Sorare also has athletes Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Piqué, Blake Griffin, and Rudy Gobert among its investors, ambassadors, and advisors.

Our Values

• Own your game: Think and act like an owner, and expect your teammates to do the same. You are an “entrepreneur” empowered to make decisions and own the outcomes.

• Build with the fans, and for the fans: Have an obsession for high-quality user experiences. Engage our community with transparency to build trust and learn from the fans to deliver effective changes.

• Run fast: Take bold risks and outpace the competition in an ever changing environment. Have a bias for action (connected to team goals) and strive to ship and iterate.

• Have fun and bring joy: Sports have the power to unite people around the world, and as fans ourselves, we believe it is a privilege to work in this industry.

• Win as a team: We are all in this together as one team, win or lose. Inspire your teammates to always be better.

Responsibilities :

• You are responsible for gameplay, metagame design, user journeys and game economy; you will design any given game elements as needed

• Drive a strong design processes that leverages problem definition, usability principles, research, sketching, and prototyping of design concepts to come up with design solutions that will enrich the experience of our players and address different game challenges

• Take creative directions or loosely defined ideas and carefully translate them into a full design including balancing

• Prototype, iterate, and eventually ship successful game features that fit seamlessly into the overall game

• Work in a cross-functional team with Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and Creatives on turning designs into the final feature.

• Create working design documents (“specifications” and “balancing / tuning”) used in the course of implementation and that aid in the development of QA test plans

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant experience in the mobile gaming or “Live service gaming” industry 

• Interest in Sports, particularly football 

• Game design craft with a deep understanding of meta-game design, free-to-play monetization concepts, and live operations tactics.

• Strong understanding of the mobile free-to-play industry and experience in playing the most successful mobile games

• Basic knowledge of applied mathematics - statistics, probability, calculus.

• Skilled in any spreadsheet software (Google Sheets, Excel)

• Proven track record of shipping/ publishing games/features as a Game Designer

• Ability to pitch and visually communicate designs clearly and concisely within the team and throughout the company using quick prototypes when needed

• Ability to work cross-functionally, communicate design influence

• Curious approach to problem-solving and ability to work through ambiguity to develop clear interaction and end-to-end engagement models for multiple user segments

• Excellent communication skills

• Openness to feedback, with a bias toward open dialogue

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Perks

• Health Care: Great medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage fully covered by Sorare

• Wellness Benefit: Sorare contributes to employees wellness (gym membership and sports classes in our office)

• Commuter Benefits: Sorare contributes to the cost of your commute with 100% of Navigo pass reimbursed

• Latest Tech: Sorare provides equipment such as laptop, monitor, etc.

• Lunch: Sorare will contribute to their employees lunch vouchers

• Time Off: we offer 5 weeks of paid holidays per year in addition to the national holidays and attached RTT

Our Hiring Process

• Step 1: Recruiter Screen (30 min)

• Step 2: Hiring Manager Screen

• Step 3: Case Study + Panel interviews

• Step 4: Reference Check & Offer

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.