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 a global phenomenon and the biggest mobile game launch in history, captivating millions of players worldwide. 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.
- 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.
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
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. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
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.
Scopely has global operations and partners across four continents in more than a dozen countries worldwide. For more information, visit: https://www.scopely.com/.
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