Scopely is seeking an experienced lead game designer to join our Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem team. As the Lead game designer, you will have to wear many hats. We are looking for an experienced designer that can effectively manage both product and people.
What will you do?
- Work closely with the Director of Design to influence the product roadmap
- Create and document high level designs for upcoming product features.
- Work with a pod of engineers, producers, and artists to help execute those features.
- Review features ( and events) and provide insights on balance, structure, and strategy.
- Manage, mentor, and help level up a team of up to 5 Game Designers located both at our HQ in Los Angeles, and our partners in Porto Alegre, Brazil
What Do You Need?
- Deep familiarity with free to play games and the conventions of gacha games.
- Experience creating and balancing content, characters, and items for RPGs
- A deep understanding of game economies and creating great reward schemes.
- Experience documenting, modeling, developing game system designs.
- Good product and people management skills.
What Else Is Good?
- Familiarity and comfort with live operations strategies and events.
- Familiarity with analytical tools, metrics, and methods (excel, gdocs, SQL, tableau, etc)
- Extensive knowledge and experience with JRPG style mobile games.
- The technical expertise to develop efficient solutions to everyday problems. (Unity expertise would be a big +)
- A willingness to travel
- Solid background knowledge and passion for Looney Tunes.
About Scopely:
Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.
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