Senior Kids Game Designer

We’re looking for passionate professionals to join our team, make a real impact, and contribute to something truly meaningful. Let’s build the future of education together! 🚀

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Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning™. Ready to join us on this exciting journey? 🚀

Lingokids is a global leader in educational technology, helping over 185 million families worldwide raise amazing kids through Playlearning™—our unique approach that blends education with play. Our mission is to empower children with modern learning experiences, combining educational subjects with essential life skills to help them grow into confident, conscious, and resilient lifelong learners.

Beyond our award-winning app, we’ve built a multi-platform educational universe, including our “Baby Bot” and “Baby Bot’s Backyard Tales” shows, Podcasts, and Music Publishing. Our content, developed in collaboration with top education experts and Oxford Press University, ensures an engaging, high-quality learning experience in a safe, ad-free environment. This dedication to excellence has earned Lingokids multiple industry awards across app, podcast, and video categories, including Best Original Learning App by Kidscreen Awards, National Parenting Product Awards by NAPPA Awards, and Best Parenting Product by Good Housekeeping, among many others!

As a Senior Kids Game Designer you will champion children’s play experiences, ensuring our games delight kids aged 2–8 while reassuring parents of their educational value. You will be a core part of the design of innovative, high-quality experiences that make Lingokids stand out in the kids’ games and learning market.

This is a role for a creative person who understands children’s motivations, thrives on cross-team collaboration, and has a proven ability to translate ideas into engaging gameplay.

If you want to be part of a team that's redefining the future of education, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll do

• Champion the Player Experience: Advocate for kids’ fun, engagement, and motivation while balancing educational goals and parental expectations.
• Drive Game Vision: Define and communicate the direction for games and interactive experiences, ensuring alignment with company goals and user needs.
• Design Experiences: Create games that are innovative, intuitive, playful, educational, and tailored to children aged 2–8.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with UX, developers, artists, educators, and product managers to design and refine experiences.
• Prototype & Iterate: Develop sketches, paper prototypes, and digital prototypes to explore mechanics and validate ideas quickly.
• Data & Research-Driven Design: Gather feedback through playtesting with kids, analyze engagement metrics, and refine designs based on insights.
• Document & Share Knowledge: Maintain clear design documentation and contribute to a shared knowledge base on kids’ game design best practices.
• Mentor & Inspire: Supervise and mentor Junior and Mid-Level Kids Game Designers, fostering growth, creativity, and excellence within the team.

What you’ll bring

• Experience: Proven track record (5+ years) in game design, with a strong focus on children’s games, educational games, or interactive learning experiences.
• Kid-Centric Expertise: Deep understanding of child development, play patterns, and motivations of kids aged 2–8.
• Design Skills: Strong ability to design fun, engaging, and intuitive gameplay, balancing creativity and usability.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to interpret both qualitative feedback and quantitative data to make informed design decisions.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring or leading other designers; able to inspire and align a team around a shared vision.
• Communication: Excellent ability to translate gameplay intentions into clear documentation and direction for cross-functional teams.
• Innovation-Driven: A creative thinker who constantly seeks new ways to differentiate products in a competitive market.

English is a must: We’re a multicultural team providing a service in English, so while certifications aren’t necessary, fluency is essential. As a fully remote company, clear and effective spoken and written communication—especially in asynchronous, long-form formats—is key to collaborating successfully.

Life at Lingokids

📚 Career Growth: Your growth drives our success! We invest in your development up to €2,000 per year for books and training—so you can keep learning and growing with us.

🏡 Remote-Friendly: Work from where you’re most productive—home or our offices in Madrid—anywhere within a 2-hour difference from Spain (GMT+1). The choice is yours!

📈 Stock Options: Your contribution matters! You'll receive stock options, giving you the opportunity to own part of the company and share in its success.

**🖥 Home Office Setup: Create your ideal workspace with a €400 allowance for setup and €35/month** for remote work expenses—because comfort fuels creativity!

**🍲 Meal Allowances: Get €60/month** on your Cobee card to enjoy meals at restaurants or food delivery—good food makes everything better!

**💳 Flexible Compensation: Manage your meal, transport and childcare expenses easily with Cobee**, integrating them directly into your payroll.

**🩺 Health Insurance: Access private health coverage** at exclusive rates through Adeslas, seamlessly deducted from your payroll—quality care made simple.

💬 Language Lessons: Learning never stops! Enjoy free language classes in Spanish and English, to sharpen your skills and stay connected in a global team.

🌍 Visa Sponsorship: If you need a visa to work in the EU, we’ll handle the process and cover the costs to make your transition seamless.

🎉 Company events: Yes! We’re a fully remote team spread across different countries, but we love getting together from time to time in different corners of Spain, for team gatherings and recharging at our amazing off-sites!

Passion matters more than perfection

Didn’t check every box for this role? No worries! We’re looking for passionate, driven individuals who believe in our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d still love to hear from you!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Lingokids, diversity isn’t just a checkbox—it’s at the heart of everything we do. Just like we teach kids to embrace differences, we celebrate them in our team, knowing that the best ideas come from unique perspectives. We’re all about creating a space where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to be their authentic selves. No matter your background, identity, or story, if you’re passionate about making a difference in education, we want you here.

Team

Lingokids Studios

Locations

Madrid (HQ), Full remote

Remote status

Fully Remote

Employment type

Full-time

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Our culture

Playworking:

We work hard and playwork™ even harder! Learning through play and having fun is also the mantra of Lingokids behind the scenes.

Creative leadership:

Lingokids members work in interdisciplinary teams with a long-term goal designed to feel like a mini-startup where everyone must perform creative leadership. All members are responsible for proposing solutions to problems, and nobody is expected to come up with all the ideas while the rest are just developing them.

We know nothing:

At Lingokids we are humble and one of our mottos is “I know nothing”. But knowing is our passion so we are always finding creative ways to increase our wisdom. That continuous race for perfecting our knowledge brought us where we are. That and that we are fast getting that knowledge.

About Lingokids

We’re the playlearning™ app for more than 100 million families worldwide.

By learning through play, your child will develop skills like creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

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