Lead Game Designer - Midcore Game
Job Summary
Job Description
As Lead Game Designer in Voodoo's Live Games team, you'll define the design pipeline for a midcore live game, influencing its roadmap and vision. You'll pitch and implement features, analyze game mechanics, and contribute to all aspects of development (UI, UX, game design, logic, etc.). Responsibilities include fine-tuning game balancing and pacing, market benchmarking, gameplay analysis, and community building. This role requires at least 5 years of experience in game design on live games, strong system design and game economy knowledge, and experience with casual or midcore mobile games. The position is based in Barcelona or fully remote within the CET +/-2h timezone.
Must have:
- 5+ years experience in game design on live games
- Strong system design & game economy knowledge
- Experience with casual/midcore mobile games
- Data-driven decision making
- Strong leadership & communication skills
Good to have:
- Familiarity with Unity and Figma
- Proficiency in Excel
3 skills required
Job Details
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
This position is Barcelona-based or fully remote within CET +/-2h.
Team
Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual, and midcore experts. Our 'Core' games team supports internal and external studios worldwide in creating, developing, and launching new hit games, whilst our 'Live' games team focuses on delivering higher engagement on our existing and successful games.
Joining our Live games team means collaborating with gaming industry experts on globally renowned, enduring games while embracing exciting new entrepreneurial ventures. With over seven billion downloads worldwide and a portfolio of more than 10 resilient hybrid games generating more than $20m per year, we are the world's largest and most successful hybrid publisher.
We are building a studio with a big mission: find the next best way to entertain the world by taking our best hits to a new level. You will join a small team that is growing, composed of veterans from the industry, where you will participate in every aspect of development, from ideation to testing the midcore games in the market.
You will be joining one of our Live Studios, working on a Midcore game.
Role
- Define a clear, cohesive design pipeline for a Live Game
- Influence the roadmap and the vision of the product, acting as the copilot of the studio
- Pitch and implement big features to the team, deconstructing them into smaller components
- Always back up your ideas with available data points
- Deconstruct and analyze mobile game mechanics
- Get involved in all aspects of game development: UI, UX, game design, logic, performance, etc.
- Help fine-tune game balancing, pacing, and feel
- Benchmark the market to stay on top of new trends
- Understand models and tools to analyze gameplay and user behavior
- Build communities around the game
Profile
- At least 5 years of professional experience as a game designer or a product-related role on a Live Game, with a strong knowledge of system design and game economy
- Experience working on casual or midcore mobile games and F2P
- Creative and hacker mindset
- Strong leadership skills
- Communication skills in English, both written and verbal
- Creative, collaborative, and detail-oriented mindset
- Accountability, independence, and responsibility when given ownership over your work
- Familiarity with Unity and Figma is a plus
- Proficient in Excel for initial balancing tasks would be a plus
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About The Company
Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps. With 7 billion downloads and over 150 million monthly active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta.
The company is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having raised over $1B and backed by Goldman Sachs, Tencent, and GBL.
Voodoo is now a team of over 750 employees worldwide, we’re looking for talented individuals from across the globe to join.
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