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Lead Game Designer - Monopoly Go!

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Hiring Remotely in US
170K-253K Annually
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170K-253K Annually
Senior level
The Lead Game Designer will own product features, drive the creation of new gameplay experiences, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor designers, focusing on enhancing player engagement.
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Scopely is looking for a Lead Game Designer to join our Monopoly GO! game team remotely within the US!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day - whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

Monopoly GO! is our casual game and a key franchise that has become Scopely’s largest game, enjoyed by millions of players. The team is based in Europe and the US, and works every day to create captivating new experiences for our players.

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.
What We're Looking For (this is copied from the Lead PM role)
  • 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

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, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range
$169,600$253,000 USD
About Us

Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “Stumble Guys,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” and “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others.
 
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer™ experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
 
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.

Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.

Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.

Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.

For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com

Notice to candidates: Scopely, Inc and its affiliates will never request payment or ask for financial information as a condition for applying to a position or receiving an offer of employment. All official Scopely, Inc. recruiters only use email domains that end with @scopely.com. 
 
Our official website is www.scopely.com. Please only apply to positions posted on our official website and ensure the recruiter only communicates via the official email domain. 

Should you have any questions or encounter any fraudulent requests/emails/websites, please immediately contact [email protected]. Our job applicant privacy policies are available here: California Privacy Notice and EEA/UK Privacy Notice.
 
Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

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Game Design
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