Game Designer (EdTech)

Location: Remote, Minsk

Salary: from $3,000 net per month

Company

Novakid is an online English school for children aged 4–12 and a learning games company with international investors, a global user base, and more than 4,000 teachers working with children in over 50 countries.

What you will do

• Lead game design in a small cross-functional team building an educational game for children.
• Design core loops, moment-to-moment gameplay, onboarding, and first-session experiences focused on engagement and retention.
• Own features from concept through release and post-launch iteration, including game economy, currencies, rewards, progression, and balancing.
• Plan live-ops seasons, events, recurring loops, and a sustainable content cadence.
• Write build-ready GDDs, product specifications, and user flows for developers, artists, and designers.
• Define success metrics, analyze post-launch results with the Product Manager and analysts, run playtests, and ensure educational goals are delivered through gameplay.

Requirements

• At least 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 pacing.
• Ability to independently write build-ready GDDs, product specifications, and flows.
• Strong knowledge of F2P metrics, feature-impact hypotheses, analytics, retention, engagement, and onboarding.
• English at B2+ level is required; 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 or speech-to-speech, and AI-assisted rapid prototyping.

Culture & Benefits

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