Senior Game Designer - Casual Games
Job Summary
Job Description
Voodoo's new Casual Studio seeks a Senior Game Designer to enhance and expand their successful legacy games (Helix Jump, Flappy Dunk, Puff Up). Responsibilities include identifying core gameplay improvements to boost user engagement, defining roadmaps and sprints, designing meta gameplay features (progression, events, game modes), analyzing in-game data for optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring scalable game economies, presenting findings to stakeholders, and staying abreast of industry trends. The role requires a proven track record of success in hypercasual/hybridcasual game design and leadership.
Must have:
- 4+ years Hypercasual/Hybridcasual Game Design experience
- Proven success on hit games (creation or significant improvement)
- Leadership of multidisciplinary teams for design excellence
- Excellent written and verbal communication (English)
- Entrepreneurial mindset
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.
Fully remote is accepted within a 2-3 hours time difference with France (CET).
Team
Our Gaming team is made up of hybrid-casual, casual and mid-core 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.
Voodoo is creating a new Casual 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.
The Studio is working on refreshing and expanding our top legacy games – such as Helix Jump, Flappy Dunk, and Puff Up. These games have already achieved great success, and we're eager to build on that momentum to create the next big hit.
Role
- Find core gameplay enhancements to unlock engagement uplift across new and existing users.
- Define prioritized roadmaps and sprints for teams to implement on a bi-weekly basis.
- Design and optimize meta gameplay features, such as progression systems, time-limited events, new game modes, quests, or player-driven goals, ensuring they contribute to monetization and player engagement.
- Continuously analyze in-game data to identify opportunities for optimizing and growing game economies.
- Drive close collaboration with other Game Designers, Developers, Artists and Analysts to align feature strategies with game design goals and clear KPIs that prove success.
- Ensure that game economy models are scalable and adaptable to new game features or changes in player behavior.
- Regularly present findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including the General Manager and Game Designers, to drive informed decision-making;
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and competitor strategies in midcore games to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
- Apply industry best practices and learnings to enhance game monetization and player experiences.
Profile
- 4+ years of experience as a Hypercasual or Hybridcasual Game Designer
- Track record of working on hit games, either creating them or by improving them significantly
- Demonstrated success in leading multidisciplinary teams to achieve design excellence and deliver engaging player experiences
- Clear communication skills in English, both written and verbal; clear and concise
- Entrepreneurial mindset essential
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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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