Game Designer (Educational Games)

Location: Remote; listed region: Tbilisi, Georgia

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, 4,000+ teachers, users in 50+ countries, and 4.9 million lessons delivered annually.

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 fun, retention, and engagement.
• Own features from concept through release and post-launch iteration, including economy systems, currencies, rewards, progression, and live-ops.
• Write build-ready GDDs, product specifications, and 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, academic collaboration, and AI tools including prompting, TTS, speech-to-speech, and rapid prototyping.

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 pacing.
• Ability to independently create build-ready GDDs, product specifications, and user flows.
• Fluency with core F2P metrics, feature-impact hypotheses, and post-launch data analysis.
• Excellent English at B2+ minimum; meetings and documentation are conducted in English.

Nice to have

• Live-ops experience with seasons, events, recurring loops, and content cadence.
• Experience with EdTech or products for children.
• AI fluency, including prompting, TTS, 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 complete game experiences and significant features from scratch.
• Internal playtesting and UX research support.
• Remote work and unlimited paid holidays.
• Bonuses and stock options.