Game Designer

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🔥 15 hours ago

🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Novakid Inc

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • Ecommerce • B2C

Novakid Inc. is an online English school designed specifically for children aged 4 to 12. The platform offers interactive lessons centered around language immersion with native-speaking teachers, tailored to align with European educational standards. Featuring various age-appropriate programs, speaking groups, and engaging learning materials, Novakid emphasizes a fun learning environment to build confidence and fluency in English for young learners globally.

📋 Description

• Lead game design in a small cross-functional team building an educational game for kids • Design core loops and moment-to-moment gameplay that is fun while teaching • Own features from concept through release and post-launch iteration • Drive retention and engagement metrics • Design onboarding and first sessions to improve early retention • Design and balance the game economy, including currencies, sources, sinks, reward curves and progression pacing • Plan live-ops, seasons, events, recurring loops and sustainable content cadence • Write build-ready GDDs, product specs and flows • Define success metrics, predict feature impact and analyze results with the PM and analysts • Collaborate with the Product Manager on the roadmap and propose metric-focused features • Collaborate with academic experts to ensure educational goals are met through gameplay • Use AI tools, including prompting, TTS, speech-to-speech and rapid prototyping • Run and learn from playtests, conduct UX research hypotheses, deconstruct competitors and improve gameplay

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years as a Generalist Game Designer, preferably in F2P mobile • Strong sense of fun and focus on retention, engagement and onboarding • Hands-on economy design experience: currency sources and sinks, reward curves and balancing • Ability to write GDDs, product specs and flows independently at build-ready detail • Analytics fluency and knowledge of core F2P metrics • Ability to form hypotheses about feature impact and read post-launch data • Excellent English (B2+ minimum); all meetings and documentation are in English • Strong advantage: live-ops experience with seasons, events, recurring loops and content cadence • Strong advantage: experience with EdTech or kids' products • Strong advantage: AI fluency, strong prompting skills, experience with TTS or speech-to-speech, and AI for rapid prototyping

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive remuneration • Remote work • Unlimited holidays • Bonuses and stock options • High autonomy within a cross-functional team of senior specialists from mobile gaming and EdTech • Internal playtesting and UX research support • Product with proven market success and a global user base • Tangible impact through games that positively influence children's lives worldwide