Junior Game Designer

2 Months ago • 1 Years + • 2D Art

Job Summary

Job Description

Playrix seeks passionate Match-3 players for a Junior Game Designer role. This position offers hands-on experience and career growth, even for entry-level candidates. Responsibilities include developing game event concepts and features, overseeing project development from a game design perspective, managing in-game economy and monetization, and analyzing game statistics to achieve balance. The ideal candidate has completed at least 500 levels in Match-3 games, understands mobile gaming market trends, and has experience in game jams or contests.
Must have:
  • 500+ Match-3 levels completed
  • Understanding of mobile gaming trends
  • Game jam/contest experience
  • Develop game events and features
  • Manage game economy and monetization
  • Analyze game statistics
Good to have:
  • 1+ years Game Designer experience
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Art, or related field
Perks:
  • Continuous professional development
  • Access to leading specialists
  • Cross-product initiatives
  • Flexible work schedule (remote)
  • Health insurance
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Gym membership reimbursement
  • Professional development funding
  • Company events and merch

Job Details

Junior Game Designer

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

We’re looking for passionate Match-3 players - Junior Game Designers who aspire to become future Game Producers! This is your chance to join an expert team, gain hands-on experience, and rapidly grow your career - even if you’re starting from scratch. At Playrix, you’ll create games enjoyed by millions of players worldwide every day. If you’re ready to turn your passion into a profession, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!


Playrix's team of game designers is a strong community of professionals. We set trends in the casual games market and strive to create top-quality products. Our decisions are based on expertise, creativity, and objective analytical data.


Tasks

  • Develop game event concepts and features

  • Control the development process and planning of project development from the point of view of game design

  • Develop internal economy and monetization of the game

  • Analyze statistics and set high-level balance

Requirements

  • Аt least 500 levels completed in our games or other major Match-3 projects

  • Understanding of the trends in the mobile gaming market

  • Experience participating in game jams and contests

In your application, indicate the number of Match-3 levels you have completed in our games, please

Preferred

  • 1+ years of experience as a Game Designer

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Art or relevant field

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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