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# Game Designer

- **Company:** Scopely
- **Location:** Spain
- **Contract:** Franchise
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Performance Tuning
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/game-designer-wheel-of-fortune-scopely-company-9746290

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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 player's 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


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