Senior Game Designer (Core) | Minecraft Blast, New Games
On-site · London, England, United Kingdom or Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Job Summary
Senior Game Designer will design and iterate on the core puzzle gameplay to deliver a satisfying, readable, and scalable player experience across thousands of levels. Collaborate with Core Gameplay Leadership, designers, artists, engineers, and product partners to ensure blockers, level mechanics, pacing, readability, and player feedback align with the creative vision and broader game strategy. Responsibilities include prototyping and developing new gameplay mechanics, tuning difficulty and progression with data insights, and contributing to the studio’s design craft community while aligning with meta-game systems and economy considerations. The role emphasizes passion for casual mobile experiences and the ability to translate player motivation into long-term engagement and rewards within a mobile, free-to-play context. Knowledge of Minecraft and wider IP is a strong plus, and relocation packages are available as part of King’s benefits.
Required Qualifications
- Experience working on mobile games, particularly free to play titles
- Strong passion for casual mobile games and meta game design
- Proven experience designing meta systems, progression frameworks, or long term engagement mechanics in successful games
- Strong understanding of player motivation, progression design, and long term engagement loops
- Experience designing systems that connect gameplay with progression, rewards, and feature unlocks
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret player behavior and data insights to guide iteration
- Experience collaborating within multidisciplinary teams, balancing creative, technical, and product perspectives
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to drive features from concept through delivery
- Clear and effective communicator verbally, visually, and in written documentation
- Comfortable working in fast-moving development environments where systems evolve through iteration
- Knowledge of Minecraft, the game and wider IP is a strong plus
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