Senior Game Designer | Candy Crush Saga

Overview

In this Senior Game Designer role within King’s Gameplay team, you will shape Candy Crush Saga’s metagame by designing progression, events, and social loops that engage millions of players. You own features end-to-end from concept to live iteration, aligning them with strategic goals and player motivation. Collaborating with product, UX, engineering, and design, you’ll ensure cohesive integration with core gameplay and the broader ecosystem. You’ll bring fresh, data-informed ideas to advance a leading free-to-play title and its liveops cadence.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve metagame features and systems (progression, competitive events, social loops) to deepen engagement
• Own metagame features end-to-end from concept through live release and iteration
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to balance and tune features against key metrics
• Translate strategic goals and insights into clear design documentation with rationale for values, triggers, and pacing
• Collaborate with live ops to maximize impact of events and retention
• Work with cross-functional teams (product, UX, engineering, data) to deliver cohesive experiences
• Ensure metagame features integrate with core gameplay and wider game ecosystem
• Stay informed on free-to-play trends in monetization and engagement
• Bring fresh, genre-leading ideas to the Candy Crush metagame

Key requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and running live metagame features for casual mobile free-to-play games
• Ownership or significant contribution to metagame features driving long-term engagement
• Understanding of interconnected systems, progression, rewards, pacing, and player motivation
• Data-driven and insight-led design approach
• Player-centric mindset with iteration and testing based on feedback
• Collaborative and structured communication across disciplines
• Mentorship and knowledge sharing to raise design bar

• Collaborative
• Clear communicator
• Mentor mindset
• Live F2P metagame design
• Systems and economy thinking
• Data-driven design

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