TL;DR

Senior Game Designer (Mobile): Designing and crafting engaging mission gameplay experiences and features for mobile freemium games with an accent on strong player engagement, retention, and monetization. Focus on creating new scenarios, moment-to-moment gameplay, and iterating designs based on analytics data within Unity.

Location: Onsite in Lisbon, Portugal

Company

Miniclip is a global leader and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with over 450 million monthly active users.

What you will do

  • Design and craft mission gameplay experiences and game features that deliver strong player engagement, retention, and monetization.
  • Take ownership of mission gameplay design and implementation, collaborating cross-discipline to create new and exciting scenarios.
  • Participate as a key member of the product team, creating high-impact gameplay content updates for existing live titles.
  • Plan and execute mission designs within Unity using proprietary tools and editors.
  • Review and iterate gameplay designs and mission implementation, incorporating feedback and balancing content based on analytics data.
  • Help identify and deconstruct new markets and opportunities, expanding the company's mobile gaming portfolio.

Requirements

  • 4+ years’ experience of gameplay and systems design, monetization, and live operations on freemium mobile games.
  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of gameplay design, complex game economy systems with multiple currencies, and progression systems.
  • Experience across the product life-cycle, from prototyping through production to updating a live free-to-play game.
  • Strong knowledge of the mobile & social game space, with exceptional understanding of current design techniques for engagement, retention, and monetization.
  • Understanding of and experience with reviewing game analytics, developing insights based on data to make informed design decisions.
  • Strong grasp of mobile user-experience design, and ability to consider & empathize with many different types of players.

Nice to have

  • Experience with level design.

Culture & Benefits

  • Work with a leading digital games and entertainment company.
  • Join a global leader in games operating in 15 countries with 22 studios.
  • Contribute to a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games with 10.5 billion downloads.
  • Opportunity to unleash the gamer in everyone.