Senior Game Designer

About This Role

Working on the mobile game Transformers: Earth Wars, the Senior Game Designer is responsible for designing and implementing new game content and features, including characters, equipment, buildings, and game modes. This role suits an impact-focused game designer with a creative spark and an analytical mindset, who is eager to experiment and refine ideas based on data and player feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own complex feature and content design: Architect and implement major systems and features (e.g., new progression mechanics, event frameworks, or combat updates) and new game characters from high-level concept to final data implementation
• Drive systemic balance: Analyze and refine the game’s core economy, game loops, and combat meta. Ensure that new content creates strategic depth and healthy metagame shifts through rigorous data analysis and forecasting
• Champion design clarity: Create high-level design documentation that communicates the "why" behind features. Present and defend designs to stakeholders, using player data and industry best practices to influence the product roadmap
• Elevate team quality: Provide constructive, peer-to-peer feedback on the designs of other team members. Help elevate the team's output by sharing advanced knowledge of Unity tools, balance methodologies, and live game optimization
• Optimize the pipeline: Collaborate with production to define scoping and technical requirements. Work closely with art and engineering to optimize the content pipeline, ensuring a sustainable monthly release cadence without sacrificing quality

Requirements

• Game/content design experience, ideally on live hero/character driven mobile/F2P titles
• Strong understanding of game systems, balance, and player motivation in free-to-play games
• Experience using Unity and internal content tools
• An analytical mindset, able to use data and feedback to refine designs
• Excellent communication and collaboration within cross-functional and globally distributed teams
• A deep passion for mobile games

Nice to have:

• IP expertise: A deep passion for the Transformers franchise with extensive lore knowledge that informs authentic content creation
• Live operations: Experience designing for live ops calendars (events, sales, battle passes) and understanding how to engage players between major releases
• External partnerships: Experience briefing and reviewing work from external art or development outsourcing partners

Benefits

• Allowance to purchase your own device or equipment
• Variable compensation through an annual bonus program
• Environment to try, fail, learn fast, and make a real impact while accelerating your career
• Opportunity to pitch great ideas directly to the management team
• Get paid in your currency of choice
• Flexible hours
• Unlimited paid time off

About the Company

Yodo1 helps turn games into household names and has spent more than a decade shaping the growth of iconic titles, with billions of downloads across its portfolio. The company brings world-class IPs from Hasbro, Paramount, Legendary, and Sony Pictures into the hands of top studios such as Rivergame, Candivore, 37Games, and Tencent Studios. Yodo1 Games transforms great titles into lasting franchises that define gaming for generations, drawing on experience with successes like Transformers: Earth Wars, Rodeo Stampede, and Ski Safari. The team consists of Yodies across six continents and 30+ countries.