Senior Gameplay Designer, Squad Busters

We’re looking for a Senior Gameplay Designer to join our newest globally launched game, Squad Busters! Squad Busters is a genre-pioneering multiplayer action RPG that brings all of the beloved Supercell IPs under one roof and is the latest entry to Supercell’s lineup of global hit games.

We are looking for an experienced designer with comprehensive skills that range from developing first concepts to delivering fully-executed and polished features in a live-game environment. This is a hands-on role that requires learning, developing, and working directly on internal gameplay systems, as well as coordinating work with other developers to facilitate the highest quality and most effective content production.

Essential to this role is a deep understanding of gameplay, balancing, accessibility, and ongoing player experience within free-to-play and PvP mobile games. Your responsibilities will include driving new gameplay content and design innovations, collaborating with other designers and developers, and delivering compelling experiences to a highly-engaged player community of millions of players. Design is a collective effort at Supercell, so it’s paramount that you constantly seek and manage input from developers and players alike!

We expect you to be self-motivated, goal-oriented and a strong team player. You take pride in your work and know what it means to take responsibility and deliver quality-focused products. We work in a dynamic and agile environment - meaning we don’t have long development cycles, but instead, we release new features, events and improvements to the game multiple times a year. We don’t have strict company processes that we need to follow, but instead, we create the process and deadlines independently as a team.

Responsibilities

• Come up with compelling new gameplay mechanics in collaboration with artists, to ensure features are well-visualized, intuitive and impactful
• Prototype and craft features in tandem with programmers, to optimize gamefeel and empower future design capability
• Organize, backfill, and provide detailed design specs on needed work, including visual mockups, to prevent design bottlenecks in production pipelines
• Take high-level ownership over final deliverables, to ensure the end-user experience is complete, balanced, polished, and tested
• Iterate and improve gameplay features, and shape the way in which they'll develop in the upcoming years
• Balance existing gameplay elements to ensure healthy engagement KPIs, and maintain a healthy state of the overall game meta
• Contribute new design ideas on ways to engage players, and collaborate with the team on the feature roadmap
• Share responsibility for the game’s overall design vision and ensure that the whole development team shares and agrees on the vision

Requirements

• Extensive understanding, skills and experience with gameplay design
• Track record working with action gameplay games with moment to moment gameplay
• Understanding of other design areas (e.g. level design) is a big plus
• Proactive and productive way of working in collaboration with others
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Absolute passion for playing and delivering great gameplay experiences