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Game Director

Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (Remote)

Game Director

1 Hour ago • All levels

About the job

Summary_{By Outscal}

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.

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.

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