Senior Game Designer

Yodo1 is looking for a Senior Game Designer to Join Transformers: Earth Wars.

You are:

• Focused on impact. You understand the 80/20 rule and focus on activities that matter.
• Performance-driven and growth-oriented. You have an intrinsic will to succeed while unafraid to try, fail, and learn by experimenting with new approaches and testing ideas.
• Cooperative. You help others succeed; you give and receive feedback well.
• Relentlessly curious. You ask questions.
• Humble. You ask for help; you are quick to admit and learn from your mistakes.
• SMART. You work and communicate in ways that are Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

You will:

• Own Complex Feature & 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 your 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.

You must have:

• 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.

You might 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.

Compensation.

We pay based on qualifications, experience, and fit for the role.

We provide an allowance to purchase your own device or equipment and offer variable compensation through our annual bonus program.

Growth.

We offer an environment where you will have the trust and freedom to try, fail, learn fast, and make a real impact while accelerating your career, and where anyone with a great idea can pitch it directly to our management team.

WFA.

Work from anywhere in the world, travel when and where you like, get paid in your currency of choice, and enjoy flexible hours and unlimited paid time off.

Community.

Work with an energetic, fast-learning, supportive, and diverse team of Yodies across six continents and 30+ countries who share and support new ideas and get things done.

Ready to change the game for mobile game developers and build your career from anywhere?