Lead Game Designer - Monopoly GO!

Description

Scopely is looking for a Lead Game Designer to serve on and elevate our new game Monopoly Go! in Seville (Spain) on a hybrid basis!

Monopoly Go! is our new casual game and a key franchise that has just become one of Scopely’s largest games with more than 2.5M DAUs. The team is based in Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

What You'll Do

This role has it all: helping to define the product roadmap, ensuring that each user experience is flawless, and anything in between. Reporting to the VP of Product Roadmap, you will closely collaborate with our Product leads, Art leads, and Engineers to design and pre-visualize new gameplay features, and at times, large expansions to the game. You will be expected to:

• Deeply understand players' needs and motivations to inform design decisions
• Keep a Product Owner mentality, ensuring designs meet the player’s needs, the franchise strategy and the business goals
• Apply your creativity to craft new features and obtain valuable learnings
• Transform high level opportunities into concrete and well thought out feature designs
• Create all facets of game design including: feature specifications, user flows, previews, prototypes
• Ensure that game information is well conveyed through the various user interfaces
• Produce and update game specs that contain the right level of detail while staying concise and easy to understand for the whole team
• 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
• Work closely with art and product leads to establish a consistent visual identity and language
• Collaborate with UI artists in the creation of UI artwork that leads to visible, accessible, user-friendly and engaging feature
• Collaborate with artists, technical artists and engineers to continuously improve how we carry designs from concept into final implementation
• Apply and maintain a unified user flow throughout gameplay systems and features
• Iterate using player and team feedback to optimise for simplicity, comprehension, and function
  
  
  

What We're Looking For

• Experience working as a Senior Designer or Game Design Lead in free-to-play mobile gaming
• Ability to work well within an international and multicultural, dynamic, cross-discipline, and iterative team environment
• Self-motivated and collaborative, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Positive and collaborative, with an ability to receive and provide objective, useful feedback
• Awareness of current trends in casual mobile games
• Ability to develop and communicate complex systems on Core, Meta and Social layers
• You have experience with user centric design / brainstorms
• You will have a consistent record of creating impactful features on live games
• Experience designing and extracting learnings from A/B tests
• You’re someone who is self-motivated, who thrives in an agile environment
• You have deep passion for creating polished, innovative gameplay experiences for casual mobile games
• You have good knowledge of game design and design theory
• Strong communications skills, both in-person and remotely
  
  
  

Bonus Points

• Experience in casual social games with deep customization and meta progression systems
• Experience in social casino games
• Experience as both a Designer and Product Owner/Manager
  
  
  

About Us

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!

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