[Hiring] Lead Game Designer @Scopely

Role Description

Scopely is looking for a Lead Game Designer to join our Monopoly GO! game team remotely within the US!

What You Will Do:

• Own product features end-to-end — from early concept through release, live operations, and post-launch optimization.
• Drive the creation of new multiplayer social and/or solo minigames that expand player engagement and enrich the overall gameplay experience.
• Translate high-level product and franchise objectives into detailed, player-centric feature designs, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
• Create and maintain clear, comprehensive game and feature specifications, partnering closely with design to ensure documentation is complete, consistent, and actionable.
• Collaborate with design and UX, guiding the direction of designs and ensuring they reflect player needs, franchise goals, and business priorities (without directly managing designers day-to-day).
• Work deeply cross-functionally with designers, artists, engineers, analysts, and producers to build high-quality features that meet both product and technical requirements.
• Provide ongoing feedback and implementation support, ensuring features progress smoothly through development and match the intended vision.
• Stay on top of market, genre, and competitive trends to shape an innovative, data-informed roadmap.
• Demonstrate strong leadership, influencing team direction, driving alignment, and elevating the quality of execution—beyond just generating ideas.
• Potentially mentor or partner closely with designers, with room to grow into management responsibilities over time.

Qualifications

• Passion for F2P Mobile Games: Enthusiastic about working on sophisticated F2P ecosystems, handling diverse player life cycles and spending behaviors.
• Experience & Qualifications: 5+ years in F2P mobile casual games.
• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written skills; able to explain the “why” to align the team with the product vision; ability to thrive in global team environment.
• Project Management: Skilled at prioritizing high-impact initiatives, understanding trade-offs, anticipating risks, managing expectations, and ensuring quality deliverables.
• Feature Ownership: Exemplified experience in leading indirect reports toward shared goals.
• Design Expertise: Ability to build experiences that encourage positive player behavior, especially on features without comparables in the market.
• Quantitative Skills: Intermediate statistics; able to assess when and how to use data, translate product issues into analytics tasks, set hypotheses, interpret data optimally, and visualize it in Excel.
• Critical, Analytical, and Creative Thinking: Outcome-driven with a strong focus on execution and an ambitious mentality.
• Proven experience in building and supporting social gameplay mechanics.
• AI Mindset: Comfortable using AI tools to improve workflows, validate ideas, and drive faster iteration in game design.

Requirements

Please ensure that the résumé/CV you attach is written in English.

For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Healthcare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Pet insurance
• Paid holidays
• Paid Scopely free days
• Unlimited paid time off

CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range: $144,200 — $215,000 USD

Company Description

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including:

• “MONOPOLY GO!”
• “Pokémon GO”
• “Stumble Guys”
• “Star Trek™ Fleet Command”
• “MARVEL Strike Force”
• “WWE Champions”
• The Scrabble® franchise
• “Yahtzee® With Buddies”

Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami.

Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.