Senior Game Designer (LiveOps) - Fully Remote

SOFTGAMES is seeking a Senior Game Designer (LiveOps) - Fully Remote to join our fully remote team. As a Senior Game Designer at SOFTGAMES, you will join a dedicated team of professionals managing our leading franchise, Solitaire Home Story, in LiveOps to ensure its ongoing success across multiple platforms. This role emphasises a strong focus on KPIs, numbers, and economy design.

This is a REMOTE position.

Qualified applicants will be expected to complete an assignment.

Your Role:

• Drive improvements in conversion, monetisation, and LTV.
• Design and balance gameplay features, progression systems, and monetisation models.
• Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to expand and improve the game’s performance.
• Iterate on game design and economy based on metrics, team input, playtests, and player feedback.
• Communicate design concepts clearly within the team and studio.
• Inspire the agile, multidisciplinary team with innovative and creative ideas.
• Continuously refine the game experience through data-driven improvements.

Your profile:

• A consistent 5+ years track record of relevant, released casual games.
• Profound insight into core mechanics, game loop, and meta-game design in casual games.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.
• Exceptional empathy to understand and connect with our target audience.
• Superb technical skills in balancing, tuning, polishing games, and developing monetisation strategies.
• A strong embrace of F2P models, enjoying working with KPIs and user feedback to refine your designs.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written.
• Deep passion for games.
• Timezone CET +/- 2h.

Bonus:

• Experience working on Solitaire games.

Benefits:

SOFTGAMES offers a competitive package, including:

• Remote first - flexible working setup: fully remote or on-site in the modern office in central Berlin.
• Flexible working hours - structure your working hours to your needs. No crunch, no overtime.
• Generous vacation regulation.
• Home office allowance for equipment to make your home office productive.
• Further training opportunities to strengthen skills or learn something new.
• Studio - modern office with state-of-the-art tech in the center of Berlin (optional).
• Equipment - choose between a MacBook Pro or Lenovo Laptop.
• Meal allowances - a monthly budget for lunches.
• Monthly extra grant for home office electricity + internet costs.
• Swag - hoodies, bags, mugs, etc.
• Offsite retreats twice a year for the entire company.

Company:

SOFTGAMES is the leading instant gaming company. We develop casual, truly social games that can be played instantly across all devices. We partner closely with Meta, Microsoft, Samsung and more to craft the next generation of instant games that billions of people can play together. SOFTGAMES is a remote first company and the home of 100 people from all over the world.

We value diversity and welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion / worldview, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

How to apply / Application details:

Please submit a detailed application together with your salary expectations and earliest possible start date.

The application form on the site requests:

• Full name and email address.
• CV/resume (PDF, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, PNG up to 50MB).
• Cover letter (upload or write in form).
• LinkedIn profile.
• Link to portfolio.
• Where you are located.
• Salary expectations (Yearly/Gross/in EUR).
• Years of Game Design Industry Experience (options include 0 years, 1-2 years, 3+).
• Earliest start date.
• Where you heard about the position.
• Do you have experience working on Solitaire games? (Yes/No)
• Links to titles you have worked on.
• Legal agreement: consent to personal data processing by Softgames GmbH for the purpose of the application.

Apply via the built-in application form on the job page or at the application URL.