Senior Game Designer

Senior Game Designer

Founded in 2012, N-iX Games is one of the biggest game development and art production vendors in Ukraine, working with leading publishers and media enterprises around the globe. The team of 240+ professionals focuses on full-cycle game development, VR solutions, and content creation for all the most popular platforms. The studio has successfully collaborated with over 40 clients, including Paradox Interactive, Tempo Storm, Supermassive Games, and VRChat.

At N-iX Games, we strive to deliver AAA quality of our work and looking for exceptional talent to join us. If you are excited about the opportunity to collaborate and grow among passionate experts — we invite you to our team! As a technical game designer in our team, you will be responsible for forging and assembling all aspects of the player's experience for an upcoming ambitious mobile project. You will be responsible for setting up scenes, visual scripting, and content implementation using custom Unity3D-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Creating concept documents and game design documents
• Propose engaging and creative gameplay features that will improve user experience, engagement, and monetization
• Game balancing
• Idea generation, narrative writing
• Communicating with clients
• Creating and adjusting game monetization
• Playtesting and design debugging
• Work directly with the team to ensure that the product is of the highest quality

Requirements:

• 4+ years of overall experience in the game design area
• At least 1 released project
• Understanding of different game genre mechanics, core gameplay and metagame
• Knowledge of monetization principles in free to play games
• Knowledge and deep analysis of trending games on mobile and PC
• Good writing skills and ability to describe thoughts in a structured but simple manner
• Practical, hands-on experience building game economies, monetization models, and balancing formulas for F2P or RPG frameworks
• Strong mathematical application skills — comfortable running simulations and organizing logic tables
• Passion for making and playing games
• B2 English or higher

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of programming/scripting in any language (C#, Java, JS, Ruby, etc.)
• Practical experience with Unity and/or UE4
• Experience in level design
• Copywriting skills
• Experience in creating games for mobile platforms
• Project management skills

We Offer:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers