Game Designer

You'll join a team of Minecraft enthusiasts working with passion and ambition, to build games that are truly unforgettable.

What you will do

• Gain and maintain expert knowledge and deep understanding of Minecraft's mechanics, culture, and community to understand and empathize with players and player expectations.
• Establish game design benchmarks and quality standards.
• Contribute to the game vision, defining player problems and identifying high impact design opportunities.
• Lead the design and configuration of complex and innovative game mechanics and systems independently.
• Evaluate how mechanics affect and improve the player engagement and experience.
• Collaborate with technical and creative teams and leads to ensure cohesive implementation.
• Solve complex design problems during development.
• Regularly review in-production game builds to ensure fun and engaging gameplay.
• Iterate on design decisions based on playtests, analytics, and player feedback.
• Mentor junior designers and guide their professional development.

Within 1 month, you will…

• Get onboarded to team tools, workflows, and pipelines and familiarise yourself with our team structure, leadership, and stakeholders.
• Work closely with studio leadership and team leads to gain an understanding of Spark's design philosophy and values.
• Participate in playtesting and provide feedback on in-progress work.
• Begin contributing to design documentation and discussions.

Within 3 months, you will…

• Contribute to game vision and design of new Marketplace projects.
• Deliver clear, actionable design documentation for core systems and features.
• Drive iteration through playtesting, feedback, and balancing.
• Pitch original feature ideas that align with player needs and Marketplace product expectations.

Within 6 months, you will…

• Lead game design across all new Marketplace projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve our design pipelines, tools, and review processes.
• Begin refining and building out internal game design documentation.
• Champion player-centric thinking across production and teams.
• Drive design innovation that raises the bar for future projects.

Requirements

• Proven track record of delivering engaging game design across a variety of genres and formats.
• A strong eye for product development and game design, with a solid portfolio of released content, preferably within the Minecraft ecosystem.
• Understanding of Minecraft's core systems, gameplay, mechanics, and creative constraints.
• Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams and iterating quickly based on player feedback and testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and present clearly to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience using technical toolsets and workflows including Git, JSON, and scripting.
• Deep understanding of pacing, player motivation, and retention mechanics.

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed above, we still encourage you to reach out, apply, and tell us more about yourself in your application. Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.

What we offer

• Flexible working hours.
• Clear career growth and progression opportunities within the company.
• €45,760-€54,080 based on 40 hours per week as an employee.
• Employment is currently available in Germany, the UK, Ireland, Austria, and Canada with the US and Croatia following soon. Rate and benefits will differ based on local currency.
• Fixed-term contractor arrangements available outside of employment countries.

Additional information

• Applicants must be older than 18 years old.
• Commitment of 40 hours per week.
• Fully remote.

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