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This role has it all: helping to define the product roadmap, ensuring that each user experience is flawless, and anything in between. You will be expected to:
- 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 playerâs 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
Requirements
- 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
- Experience working as a Game Designer in free-to-play mobile gaming with a focus on casual/social and/or word/trivia genre
- Deep understanding of the Wheel of Fortune TV show, its gameplay and rules
About the company
Scopely is looking for a Game Designer to serve on and elevate the experience on Wheel of Fortune!
As the sole Design owner on Wheel of Fortune and reporting directly to the Game Director, this is a unique opportunity to work on a small & mighty Team and put your stamp on a beloved Franchise played across the globe and live for over a decade!, At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!, Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the worldâs most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time âMONOPOLY GO!â and âPokĂŠmon GO,â along with âStumble Guys,â âStar Trek Fleet Command,â âMARVEL Strike Force,â âWWE Champions,â the ScrabbleÂŽ franchise, âYahtzeeÂŽ With Buddies,â 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.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team - including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopelyâs position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like âMONOPOLY GO!â from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Scopely Explore games businesses - Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the â100 Most Influential Companies in the Worldâ by TIME magazine and one of Fast Companyâs âWorldâs Most Innovative Companiesâ and âBest Workplaces for Innovators,â Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good - creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
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