Game Designer (Educational Games)

Location: Remote from Serbia

Salary: From $3,000 net per month

Company

Novakid is a fast-growing online English school for children aged 4–12 and a Learning Games Company with international investors and a global user base.

What you will do

• Lead game design in a small cross-functional team building educational games for children.
• Design core loops, moment-to-moment gameplay, onboarding, and first-session experiences focused on fun, retention, and engagement.
• Own features from concept through release and post-launch iteration, including economy design, progression pacing, currencies, rewards, seasons, and events.
• Write build-ready GDDs, product specifications, and user flows for developers, artists, and designers.
• Define success metrics, predict feature impact, analyze results with the Product Manager and analysts, and contribute to the roadmap.
• Use playtests, UX research, competitor analysis, and AI tools such as prompting, TTS, speech-to-speech, and rapid prototyping to improve gameplay.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Generalist Game Designer, preferably in F2P mobile games.
• Hands-on experience designing and balancing game economies, including currency sources and sinks, reward curves, and progression.
• Ability to independently write GDDs, product specifications, and flows at build-ready detail.
• Fluency with core F2P metrics, feature-impact hypotheses, and post-launch data analysis.
• Excellent English, B2+ minimum; all meetings and documentation are in English.

Nice to have

• Live-ops experience with seasons, events, recurring loops, and content cadence.
• Experience with EdTech or children’s products.
• AI fluency, including prompting, TTS, speech-to-speech, and AI-assisted rapid prototyping.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy within a cross-functional team of senior mobile gaming and EdTech specialists.
• Opportunity to create holistic game experiences and significant features from scratch.
• Internal playtesting and UX research support.
• Remote work from Serbia.
• Unlimited paid holidays, bonuses, and stock options.