TapBlaze

Game Designer, Casual F2P

Los Angeles Office

Sponsorship not specified$65k-$95kDetected 69 days ago

Data AnalysisA/B TestingUX DesignWireframingUnityResearchCommunicationTime Management

About the role

We need a game designer who actually plays casual F2P mobile games, not someone who tolerates them, but someone who genuinely loves them.
If you've ever rage-quit a casual game because an update nerfed something you loved, or stopped playing because the economy felt like a trap, that is good.
Our vision is to become one of the world's leading entertainment companies.

Design New Game Mechanics & Features
Design LiveOps events, seasonal content, and limited-time features that drive engagement without burning out our player base.
Create wireframes, design documents, and prototypes that communicate your intent clearly to engineering and art.
Design and maintain in-game economies (currencies, pricing, upgrade costs, cooldowns, sink/source balance) with a long-term, sustainable mindset.
Improve Existing Designs Without Alienating Players
Use player feedback, reviews, community sentiment, and analytics data to understand how players actually experience your designs not just how you intended them to work.
Identify design debt (overly generous rewards, unsustainable economies, features that don't scale) and create migration plans that respect the player relationship.
Develop a strong mental model of TapBlaze's player base: who they are, what they value, what frustrates them, and what makes them engaged with our games.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, art, QA, marketing) to ensure designs are player-centric and technically feasible.
You'll design new mechanics and improve existing ones for Good Pizza, Great Pizza (300M+ downloads) and latest title Good Coffee, Great Coffee.

Experience with UI/UX design or strong opinions about how interface design affects player behavior and comprehension.
Experience with data analytics tools
Experience designing for narrative-driven or cozy game genres specifically.
Familiarity with A/B testing and LiveOps in a live mobile game environment.
Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact careers@tapblaze.com.

Conduct market research and competitive analysis, translating insights into actionable feature recommendations.
2+ years of experience designing casual F2P mobile games.
Casual mobile specifically.
At least one shipped casual mobile game currently live on the App Store or Google Play.
You actively play casual F2P mobile games in your personal time.
You can talk at length about what's working and what's broken in games like Merge Mansion, Royal Match, Hay Day, Stardew Valley mobile, and similar titles.
Do not apply if you don't regularly play casual F2P games.
Proven experience with game economy design.

The salary range for this role is $65,000 to $95,000 per year depending on experience.
If this position caught your eye, send us your resume! For best consideration, include a cover letter in your application explaining why you would be a great fit.
Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact careers@tapblaze.com.

We are ambitious. We aim to build games that are remembered for decades.
We are disciplined. We make deliberate, well-reasoned decisions.
We are ownership-minded. If it's your area, you own it, the wins and the problems.
We are results oriented. We measure success by what ships and what players experience.
We are extra-ordinary. We hold ourselves to a higher standard than the industry expects of a studio our size.

As an equal opportunity employer committed to meeting the needs of a multigenerational and multicultural workforce TAPBLAZE recognizes that a diverse staff, reflective of our community, is an integral and welcome part of a successful and ethical business.

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