King is seeking a Senior Game Designer to join the Candy Crush Soda Saga team. This role involves guiding and shaping features from early explorations to final release, balancing player experience with business impact. The designer will take ownership of design decisions within a focused area like core gameplay or live ops, translating player insights and data into clear design choices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver meaningful experiences for millions of players.

Must Have

• Lead player-centric feature design from problem definition through concepting to final release
• Contribute to and uphold the established creative vision and strategy
• Turn player feedback, insights, and data into actionable design decisions
• Create clear, concise documentation and artifacts to explain design rationale and intent
• Collaborate across disciplines, areas, and teams to refine design solutions
• Represent and champion game design craft to build shared understanding
• Experience working on live games, ideally mobile free-to-play
• Deep knowledge of casual gameplay mechanics and player motivations
• Proven ability to design viable core gameplay loops and connecting meta systems or features
• Strong analytical and intuitive skills
• Communicate designs clearly and efficiently through various artefacts
• Demonstrated ownership of the entire design process
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Data-informed decision-making using qualitative and quantitative insights
• Experience operating within agile product development

Craft:

Games Design & Production

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Senior Game Designer with strong collaboration skills to help shape and deliver features that delight players of Candy Crush Soda Saga, one of our biggest and most successful mobile match3 games.

In this role you will guide and shape features throughout the entire design process with your team, from early explorations to the final release. You will confidently balance the best possible player experience with business impact, partnering closely with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality features at scale.

Your role within the Kingdom

As a Senior Game Designer in Soda, you will take ownership of the design decisions within a focused area such as core gameplay, live ops & events, or permanent progression. You’ll work within the established design direction of our game while partnering with UX, UI, Development, Product, Data Science, User Research, Sound, and Art to deliver meaningful experiences for millions of players.

With a problem-solution mindset, you will confidently translate player insights and quantitative and qualitative data into clear design choices, create documentation that outlines reasoning and guides implementation, support player testing, and iterate to ensure your solutions are accessible, data-informed, and aligned with product strategy and roadmap.

You’re a strong communicator and a champion of design principles. You build strong relationships across disciplines and introduce innovative mechanics and concepts while respecting technical and performance constraints.

What you'll do:

• Lead player-centric feature design from problem definition through concepting to final release. Stay accountable for the design choices within your team.
• Contribute to and uphold the established creative vision and strategy.
• Turn player feedback, insights, and data into actionable design decisions leading to measurable outcomes.
• Create clear, concise documentation and artifacts to explain design rationale and intent, as well as enable smooth implementation.
• Collaborate across disciplines, areas, and teams to refine design solutions, enhance accessibility, and ensure alignment.
• Represent and champion our game design craft to build shared understanding.

Skills to create thrills:

• Experience working on live games, ideally mobile free-to-play, with deep knowledge of casual gameplay mechanics and player motivations within this space.
• Proven ability to design viable core gameplay loops and connecting meta systems or features, with strong analytical and intuitive skills.
• Communicate designs clearly and efficiently through artefacts such as presentation decks, visual one-pagers, mockups, written documents, or prototypes.
• Demonstrated ownership of the entire design process, including problem definition, exploration, concepting, production and implementation, player testing, iteration, and final delivery.
• Clear written and verbal communication. Work closely with stakeholders across disciplines to align on goals, clarify priorities, and keep teams informed as designs evolve.
• Data-informed decision-making using qualitative and quantitative insights; experience operating within agile product development.
• Request and synthesize feedback, respond quickly to pivots and changing priorities, and balance independent work with effective cross-functional collaboration.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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