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Voodoo is a Tech company that creates and publishes hyper-casual and casual mobile games for a wide audience. It is the worldwide leader in the mobile game market through snackable, innovative and creative content combining data and new technologies.

The company raised $200M in 2018 and we have been certified a Great Place to Work France 2020 and Best Workplace 2021. More recently, Tencent has become a minority stakeholder in Voodoo, with a role in framing our strategy to dominate the Asia Pacific region.

#1 worldwide in mobile game downloads, and regularly at the top of the App Store rankings, our games have about 300 million monthly active users and more than 5 billion downloads since our creation. Voodoo is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having multiplied its turnover by 5 over the past few years.

With more than 360 employees around the world, we would love you to apply to join an ambitious, innovative and international company!

What is Voodoo’s Culture all about?

We recruit passionate and creative profiles, who combine data and new technologies to disrupt the mobile market. Driven by a test-and-learn culture, we welcome wonderfully talented people wishing to undertake and manage unique, ambitious and challenging projects. Our goal is to foster excellence, both individual and communal, which to us means solving problems by breaking the rules, learning fast and autonomously and delivering with the best execution.

Before applying, you need to know that the company’s Culture is very important to us. Our employees evolve within an environment designed to be a centre for fulfillment. Daily life at Voodoo is characterised by numerous events throughout the year that allow you to feel fully integrated into the team and get involved in creative and innovative projects. Among them: onboarding programs, our annual global summit, other company-wide events, hackathons, game jams, wellness events and more.

What will be your main challenges?

We are looking for an industry expert to shape a high-performing game of Voodoo Casual.

  • Define a clear, cohesive creative vision for the game
  • Create alignment around your creative vision, communicating with team members and stakeholders across all levels
  • Lead a team of experienced game designers, creating processes and rituals which will enhance creativity and collaboration
  • Work closely with the other craft leads and the casual leadership team to execute on the product & people strategy
  • Pitch new game ideas and features to the team
  • Ability to deconstruct and analyze mobile game mechanics
  • Benchmark the market to stay on top of new trends
  • Understanding of models and tools to analyze gameplay and user behavior
  • Get involved in all aspects of game development: UI, UX, game design, logic, performance

What do we expect?

  • You have at least 5 years of professional experience as a game designer
  • You have at least 2-3 years of professional experience leading/supervising other game designers
  • You have a proven track record for designing and shipping successful FTP games. Casual is a plus.
  • Proven ability to work cross-crafts and to communicate a creative vision to a broad audience, from team members to Company stakeholders
  • You have experience working on mobile games and f2p. Experience in casual is a plus.
  • You combine a creative with a hacker mindset: you live at the intersection of creativity and pragmatism
  • You have expertise in both Gameplay and Metagame design

What is your team about?

You will be part of a great team looking to create new experiences for our audience and directly report to the Head of Studio.

What do we offer for this role?

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Free shares
  • Remote days
  • Lunch card
  • Wellness activities
  • Hackathon
  • Seminars
  • Global Summit

We are offering all members of staff an unlimited vacation policy, allowing them to take as many paid days off as they wish as long as the work is done and objectives are achieved.

What is our recruitment process?

Our recruitment process typically includes a call with our recruitment team, as well as interviews with your future manager and team members focusing on job fit. We will focus on your soft skills through values fit interviews that will determine if your values are compatible with ours. Lastly, a test / case study will feature at some point in your process.

Does this sound like it was written with you in mind? Excellent! Put in your application and lets discuss the possibilities!