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

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