Lead Game Designer

We're looking for a Lead Game Designer to join the Tripledot Games team. You’ll lead design on a new hybrid-casual game in the idle RPG space. We’re exploring directions that blend idle progression with arcade action or roll-based economies, and you’ll help decide which one we take forward.

About Tripledot Studios

Tripledot

• Studios is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.
• We are a multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.
• Our expanded portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users.
• Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.
• We’re building a company we’re proud of. One filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games.
• Our ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world, and we’re just getting started.
• The role is working within our studio: Tripledot Games
• Tripledot Games is a leading developer and publisher of casual and puzzle games, with a strong presence in London, Warsaw and Barcelona.
• Our best-in-class data-driven approach spans the entire lifecycle from publishing to machine learning puzzle levels, helping us make fast, smart decisions at every stage of development.
• We are also one of the largest IAA operators worldwide.
• Tripledot Games is a diverse and collaborative studio, home to people from over 36 nationalities.
• We take pride in our craftsmanship, strong focus on outcomes, and continuous improvement, building high-quality, scalable games that players around the world love.

Responsibilities

• Own the core loop, meta and progression design for a new mobile game, from concept to launch.
• Build playable prototypes quickly, using AI tools, to test ideas before full production.
• Design economy and progression systems, including upgrade curves, rewards, gacha and spin or roll mechanics.
• Balance hybrid monetisation across ads and IAP.
• Write clear design documentation for art, engineering and product teams.
• Analyse KPIs, playtests and A/B tests, and turn the results into design changes.

Leading game design

• Set the design direction for the project, working with the product director and studio leadership.
• Research the market and competitors to find opportunities in new genres.
• Review design work and share feedback and best practices with more junior designers.
• A proven record of senior or lead game design work on live free-to-play mobile games, ideally hybrid-casual.
• Experience on at least one successful title in idle RPG, coin looter, arcade idle, survivor-like or similar hybrid-casual genres.
• Experience designing the economy, progression and monetisation of a live game, and tuning them using player data and A/B tests.
• Experience building playable prototypes yourself with AI tools.

Leading game design

• Experience reviewing other designers’ work and helping them improve.
• Experience with base building, lighter 4X-style meta or creature collection.

Preferred

• Strong advantage

Pay

Qualifying earnings or opt-in 4% contributory match schemes offered.

Benefits

• Experience on two or more of the genres above.
• Experience taking a new game from concept to launch.
• Working at Tripledot
• 25 days paid holiday
• in addition to bank holidays to relax and refresh throughout the year

20 days remote working

• Work from anywhere in the world, or use the time to cover mandatory office days to WFH, 20 days of the year.
• when in the office you get £12 every day to order from JustEat.
• quarterly on-site and off-site events that celebrate cultural events, our achievements and our team spirit.
• Anytime you need it, tap into confidential, caring support with our Employee Assistance Program, always here to lend an ear and a helping hand.
• Receive vital support on your family forming/ fertility journey with our support program [subject to policy]
• Financial protection for you and your loved ones.
• Propel your career with continuous opportunities for professional development.
• Opt-in (P11d benefit) comprehensive private medical cover with Bupa and cash plan with Medicash.
• Opt-in (P11d benefit).
• Salary sacrifice bike purchase scheme.