Game Designer

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Art, Analytics, LiveOps and QA to bring compelling features from concept to release.
• Write and update design specs that contain the right level of detail while staying concise and easy to understand for the whole team.
• Help plan our Production roadmap and Liveops calendar.
• Drive feature optimizations to maintain gameplay quality, improve balance, and boost player engagement (levels & puzzles, battle pass, weekly and daily challenges, etc.).
• Keep a Design Owner mentality, ensuring designs meet the player’s needs, the franchise strategy and the business goals.
• Follow the most recent market trends and best practices to create the best possible designs for our roadmap features, and to bring new ideas to the table.

• 2-5 years of professional game design experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency with level design, systems design, game tuning, content design, user experience design and overall design documentation.
• Deep understanding of free-to-play monetization mechanics including game balancing and virtual economy management.
• Excellent communication skills - remotely and in person - with the ability to gather feedback, align stakeholders, and iterate to success collaboratively.
• Comfortable working independently while thriving in a highly dynamic and international environment.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to use data to improve designs.

• Bonus points for experience working as a Game Designer in free-to-play mobile gaming with a focus on casual/social and/or word/trivia genre, and deep understanding of the Wheel of Fortune TV show, its gameplay and rules.