Game Director

3 Months ago • All levels • 2D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix is seeking a skilled Game Director to lead the development of their match-3 games. Must have experience in LiveOps, monetization, game design, and product metrics analysis. You'll be responsible for developing new events, features, and end-game mechanics. Strong understanding of product metrics and the ability to build hypotheses for game development are crucial.
Must have:
  • LiveOps Expertise
  • Monetization Strategy
  • Game Design Lead
  • Product Metrics
Good to have:
  • Casual Game Dev
  • Match-3, Solitaire
  • Social Interaction
  • AI & ML
Perks:
  • Professional Growth
  • Flexible Work

Job Details

Game Director

About the company

Playrix is ​​one of the most successful mobile game development companies 
in the world. In terms of mobile application revenue, we rank first in Europe 
and are in the top 3 worldwide. Our games have been installed 2.3 billion times (that's a third of the world's population!) and more than 30 million people around the world play them every day.

Team, about the role

Talented experts work on our products in every area. Our Game Design Teams are drivers of innovative product solutions who manage the production and quality of our games.


We're looking for a Game Director who will be responsible for our operating strategy and create world-class hits.

Tasks

Match-3 Games ( | | )

  • Develop new events and features from scratch to maintain market leadership

  • Implement approaches to personalize the gaming experience using ML/AI

  • Radically improve the quality of the match-3 gaming experience in terms of visuals and mechanics

  • Invent and implement new end-game mechanics

  • Rethink the layer of social interaction between players

New Games

  • Product management at the soft launch stage, analyzing metrics and putting forward hypotheses that contribute to significant improvement

  • In the future, set the vector of development of the entire product, build a LiveOps system

Requirements

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

  • Understanding of product metrics for the market (retention, ARPU, etc.) Ability to work with game metrics and build hypotheses for game development based on them

  • Knowledge of mobile gaming market trends and new approaches to development

  • Experience in managing and developing a game design team

  • Fluency in Russian

Preferred

  • Experience in developing casual games in the Match-3, Solitaire, Expedition, 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.

Our Perks

Flexibility at work

  • For most positions we offer a flexible schedule, and employees can work from anywhere in the world (except for the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus). You can do your work however and wherever you like — we only evaluate your results.

Caring for health and well-being
  • We provide voluntary health insurance for employees and their children, and reimburse online sessions with a psychologist.
  • We offer fully paid vacation days and sick leave. In certain circumstances, you can request additional days off.
  • We support leading a healthy lifestyle and reimburse the cost of gym memberships and fitness app subscriptions.
Professional development and education
  • We pay for participation in specialized conferences and courses and hold our own internal conferences.
  • We offer discounts on English language courses and courses for the languages of the countries in which the company operates.
Events and merch
  • We regularly hold offline events like team meetings, big corporate parties, and informal office parties.
  • We also regularly organize fun competitions, quizzes, hackathons, and online fitness challenges.
  • We have a merch store with an internal currency you can use to buy unique gifts. We give out this currency as a gift for significant dates, and you can earn more by participating in events and company activities.

Similar Jobs

ByteDance - Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Global E-commerce Risk Control) - 2025 Summer (PhD)

ByteDance

San Jose, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Luxoft - Senior GPU Compiler Software Development Engineer

Luxoft

Poland, Ohio, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
G5 Games - 2D HOG Grind Artist (Hidden Objects Project)

G5 Games

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan (Remote)
2 Days ago
ION - Senior AI Engineer, Italy

ION

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Paypal - Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Paypal

San Jose, California, United States (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Senior C++ Software Engineer (Tools)

Playrix

Ukraine (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Promt engineer/AI trainer

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
2 Months ago
G5 Games - 2D FX Animator

G5 Games

Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia (Remote)
2 Months ago
Flixtoon Animation   - 2d Animator

Flixtoon Animation

Habra, West Bengal, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Nexters - Senior 2D Artist (Environment)

Nexters

Cyprus (Remote)
1 Week ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Match Group - Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Match Group

Palo Alto, California, United States (Hybrid)
3 Months ago
Resemble AI - Deep Learning Speech Researcher

Resemble AI

Mountain View, California, United States (On-Site)
6 Months ago
Luxoft - Senior GPU Compiler Software Development Engineer

Luxoft

Italy, New York, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
ION - Senior AI Engineer, Italy

ION

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy (On-Site)
4 Months ago
PwC - Conversational AI Developer- Manager

PwC

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Luxoft - Senior/Lead Machine Learning and Image Processing Specialist

Luxoft

Italy, New York, United States (Remote)
2 Months ago
G5 Games - 2D HOG Grind Artist

G5 Games

(Remote)
2 Days ago
Optum - Data Scientist

Optum

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Vigaet - Machine Learning Engineer-Internship

Vigaet

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (On-Site)
10 Months ago
Ascent Health - Lead Data Scientist

Ascent Health

Karnataka, India (On-Site)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan

PwC - Senior Payroll Compliance Consultant

PwC

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Playrix - Senior Recruiter

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Senior C++ Software Engineer (Gameplay)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Senior Release Engineer

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago
Visa - VCA Consulting Director, Acquiring

Visa

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Visa - Solution Architect Manager

Visa

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Principal C++ Software Engineer (Tools)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Middle C++ Software Engineer (Gameplay)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago
G5 Games - Senior QA Automation Engineer

G5 Games

Astana, Astana, Kazakhstan (Remote)
2 Weeks ago
Playrix - Senior/Principal 2D Artist (Match-3)

Playrix

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

2D Art Jobs

Playrix - Senior Game UI Developer

Playrix

Portugal (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Game Director

Playrix

Serbia (Remote)
3 Months ago
Argus Labs - 2D Artist Internship

Argus Labs

Indonesia (Remote)
1 Week ago
SuperPlay - 2D Illustrator

SuperPlay

Tel Aviv District, Israel (On-Site)
1 Week ago
PlayQ - Senior 2D Concept Artist (Remote Contract)

PlayQ

(Remote)
4 Weeks ago
Playrix - Principal C++ Software Engineer (Tools)

Playrix

Armenia (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Technical Director (Game Project)

Playrix

Cyprus (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Communications Director

Playrix

Georgia (Remote)
2 Months ago
Playrix - Principal C++ Software Engineer (Tools)

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
3 Months ago
Playrix - Senior Technical Designer

Playrix

Ireland (Remote)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded