Lead Product Designer (Games)

Location: El Segundo, California; in-office Monday–Thursday and work from home on Fridays.

Salary: $115,000–$144,000 annual base pay.

Company

hirify.global is a global toy and family entertainment company creating toys, games, content, consumer products, and digital and live experiences across iconic owned and licensed brands.

What you will do

• Design and develop new gameplay experiences across family, party, strategy, and card game portfolios.
• Own complex projects from concept exploration through prototyping, playtesting, refinement, manufacturing, and commercialization.
• Translate gameplay into intuitive physical products, components, and interactions using sketching, model making, CAD, rendering, and prototyping.
• Apply player psychology, consumer insights, playtesting, and feedback to improve mechanics, pacing, accessibility, and repeat engagement.
• Set creative direction, lead critiques and design reviews, and mentor Product Designers and Senior Product Designers without direct people-management responsibility.
• Partner with Marketing, Consumer Insights, Engineering, Packaging, Licensing, Operations, and external development partners while managing parallel workstreams and design trade-offs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing tabletop, card, party, strategy, family games, toys, or related physical consumer products, with demonstrated strength in game and product design.
• Experience leading the complete game development process, including ideation, mechanics, prototyping, playtesting, balancing, iteration, and commercialization.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating sophisticated problem solving, compelling physical product design, and the ability to translate ideas into clear, engaging play experiences.
• Deep understanding of player motivation, game systems, probability, progression, accessibility, and player experience design.
• Knowledge of consumer product development, manufacturing processes, materials, tooling, and production constraints.
• Ability to lead through influence, provide creative direction, and elevate other designers without relying on formal authority.
• Strong communication, storytelling, critique, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects, navigate ambiguity, maintain momentum, and make informed trade-offs in a fast-paced development environment.
• Passion for games, curiosity about how people play, and a desire to create products that bring people together.

Nice to have

• Experience shipping commercially successful tabletop or card games.
• Experience facilitating structured playtesting, game balancing, and consumer research.
• Experience with licensed entertainment brands or global product development organizations.
• Familiarity with modern tabletop gaming trends and mechanics across hobby and mass-market categories.
• Experience mentoring designers or serving as a creative lead across multidisciplinary development teams.
• A genuine love of games and play.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work model combining purposeful in-person collaboration with one work-from-home day each week.
• Collaborative, inclusive, innovative, and performance-driven environment focused on accountability, ownership, and shared goals.
• Competitive total pay programs, comprehensive benefits, and resources supporting employee wellbeing and development.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to belonging and consideration of qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records as permitted by applicable law.