At Flowmotion Entertainment, we are passionate about making great games and getting them the audience they deserve. We are a game developer and publisher of female-focused casual mobile games, and have brought fun to over 40 million people around the world. We are headquartered in Canada with an international all-star team that spans the globe. Having fun while making a difference in the world is core to who we are, and the revenue from our games have also helped Backpack Buddies, a Canadian charity, provide more than 45,000 meals to children in need.

We partner with top developers around the world to ensure their games attract the audience they deserve and are imagined for sustainable, long-term, profitable growth. We’ve experienced remarkable growth over the past few years, and we’re just getting started!

The Opportunity

Flowmotion is looking for a rockstar Game Designer, who will guide product roadmaps, and turn green-lit feature ideas into detailed, clear, and super fun design documentation that our studio partners can execute on efficiently. You’re excited about growth and learning, and getting in on the ground floor of a fast-growing company. You’re a F2P balancing wiz, and you enjoy collaboration to share your extensive knowledge when it comes to F2P feature design, gameplay and economy tuning.

What you will be doing:

Hands-on creation, iteration, and tuning of the game’s balance and economy.
Set scope and priorities of features, events, and economies to meet project goals.
Develop a deep understanding of our players’ needs and motivations so that you can effectively make recommendations and decisions that make sense for our communities.
Detailed game design documentation for new features and improving existing ones.
Collaborate with company leadership on game direction, roadmap, and live operations.
Identifying key features of competitor games that contribute to their success, and adapting these to fit Flowmotion’s games.
Prioritizing ideas based on need and maintaining the ideas backlog effectively.
Design and implementation of economy testing and balancing experiments, including A/B testing and experiments designed on audience segments
Thoroughly testing all builds to ensure the final development product meets the intended design criteria
Work with our teams effectively in order to produce the best work from those around you.
Work with the analytics team to define and review the game’s metrics and analytics events to drive improvements to meet project KPIs.
Design and own economy and systems tools to facilitate live game content creation and tuning.

What you need:

2+ years of mobile F2P design and balance experience.
Experience helping make good games great through solid design, community understanding, and hard work.
Experience with live operation best practices.
Extensive experience and knowledge of F2P trends and best practices
Extensive working experience with spreadsheets and proven problem-solving skills and critical thinking abilities.
A strong demonstrated understanding of great game design, game economy balancing, and game difficulty balancing.
A balance of discipline and flexibility to succeed in a remote work environment and have worked on a team of remote members before.
Great communication skills, fluent in English, both written and verbal
A growth mindset, and commitment to achieving that ‘next level’ in everything you do.

How success will be measured:

Achieving and improving “core game success metrics” for new and existing titles (improving upon the actual list of these key metrics as well as the metric result itself), ranging from essential technical metrics (such as performance and stability) to key retention metrics (i.e. Onboarding, Day 1, Day 7, etc), to key monetization metrics (economy and level balancing, purchaser conversion rate, average revenue per paying user, etc).
Team harmony through clear communication and leadership
Frequent experiments with clear progress and reported insights/learnings

How we care for our team:

Training & Development - we support you attending relevant conferences and fostering your personal and professional growth
Discretionary Bonus Program
Flexible Work Schedule, getting to work from home alongside a global team of passionate people living all over the planet

To apply, at a minimum send your cover letter and resume via the link below with the word “passion” in the subject line. Even better yet, we’d suggest doing something to really get noticed that will be different than 99% of the applicants who will just send an email hoping to get an interview...