Senior Game Designer

**I. KEY JOB DUTIES**

**Strategic & Product Ownership**
- Define strategic direction and core design pillars for puzzle/casual products based on player behavior and business goals.
- Collaborate closely with Producers and Product Owners to shape product strategies, define USPs, retention loops, and long-term content roadmap.
- Proactively suggest new ideas, improve design workflows, or adopt new tools to enhance team efficiency.

**Hand-on & execution**
- Detail the gameplay ideas into Game Design Document.
- Design and balance game system including in-game economy and difficulty progression.
- Strong skills in designing levels for puzzle games.
- Represent the Game Design team in cross-functional meetings with engineering, product, and partners.
- Organize and lead internal design reviews to ensure high design quality and foster a culture of learning.
- Monitor and analyze game performance and user data to improve existing features and game KPI metrics.

**Mentor & Coaching**
- Mentor and coach junior Game Designers: share knowledge, guide technical skills, and nurture systemic design thinking.

**II. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENT / SKILLS / ATTRIBUTES**

**KNOWLEDGE**:

- Knowledge about Game mechanics, game flow, tool support for game designing.
- Knowledge about Mobile game market, game trending especially in casual and puzzle genre.
- Proficiency in prototyping and ideation.
- User psychology.
- Wireframe Design tools (Figma, Photoshop, Basalmiq, etc).
- AI tools (ChatGPT, Midjourney, Gemini, etc).
- Design Thinking process
- Mind mapping process
- Level Design mindset for casual game ( difficulty progression, level funnel data, level KPI

**Nice to have**:

- Background in technical fields or programming.
- Color theory.

**ABILITIES**:
**Hard skills**:

- Minimum 4-5 years of experience in Game Design, including 2+ years in a Senior or Lead role.
- Game balancing, including in-game economies and difficulty progression.
- Systemic design thinking and ability to guide design direction based on both creative vision and player data.

**Soft skills**:

- Strong communication and logical thinking skills to clearly articulate and defend design decisions.
- Experience mentoring, coaching or onboarding junior designers.
- Self-critique and accept outside critique.
- Keen eye for details.
- Proficient in English.

**Nice to have**:

- Proven experience designing or shipping at least one successful puzzle/casual title with solid retention & monetization KPIs.
- Ability to create a prototype by yourself with any creation software or game engine (by AI, or Unity3d, cocos, Game Maker,...)
- Blending between Player Focus + Innovation + Decision Making.
- Passion for playing and making casual games.

**III. WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE**
- Professional, creative working environment and talented teams, equal-opportunities & agile culture
- Great facility to work. You will have a MacBook and extra high definition screens
- Electrical standing desk for most comfortable seat
- Annual leave 12 days / sick leave 2 days / remote work 12 days
- Paternity Leave policy offers more than 10 days of Paid leave, not including days-off.
- Remaining Annual leave will be transferred to the next working year
- Premium health insurance package for you and your relatives
- Annual health check-up at premium clinic
- Interesting workout activities: gyM/Fitness, yoga, kick-boxing, football after work
- Annual bonus and project bonus
- Reward program for engaged activities and volunteering
- Annual company trip & quarter team bonding activities
- Happy hours and awesome parties
- Development opportunity: sponsorship for training courses
- With regular discussions, you will have a lot of opportunities to learn from experts in their fields
- International opportunity to expose and grow
- At least one abroad travels every year. We often send our elites to international conferences like GDC, WWDC, Google I/O... to update the latest technology
- Additional allowance & gifts for birthdays, giving-birth, weddings, illness, Mid-Autumn Festival, Lunar New Year, 1/1, 1/5, 1/6
- Pantry booster with food & beverages, game station & entertainment: PS4,...

**IV. FURTHER INFORMATION**
- Working hour: from Monday to Friday (8:30 -18:00)
- Address: 40A Lam Son, Ward 2, Tan Binh district, Ho Chi Minh city _(currently located in Tan Son Hoa Ward, HCMC)_