Game Designer (Level & Balance)

Location: Office, remote, or hybrid

Company

hirify.global is hiring for a client project: a mobile multiplayer strategy game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

What you will do

• Build and balance mini-game levels, including enemy compositions, waves, boss encounters, mechanics, difficulty curves, and pacing.
• Balance heroes, skills, RPG statistics, monsters, bosses, dungeons, and event mini-games.
• Contribute to gameplay mechanics and systems throughout the active design and pre-production phases.
• Validate balance using calculations, simulations, playtests, analytics data, product metrics, probability, and statistics.
• Create and maintain GDDs, feature specifications, and balance documentation for development, analytics, production, and QA teams.
• Collaborate with analysts, QA specialists, developers, artists, and other cross-functional contributors.

Requirements

• 3+ years of game design experience on mobile free-to-play titles.
• Hands-on level design experience, including level building, difficulty tuning, and playtesting.
• Experience with mobile RPGs, Vampire Survivors-like games, and survival games.
• Proficiency in Excel and/or Google Sheets, plus experience with JSON and/or XML configuration files.
• Ability to build balance models and progression curves, apply mathematical and statistical reasoning, and make data-driven decisions using analytics and product metrics.
• Practical experience using LLMs, proficiency in Russian, and strong professional communication skills.

Nice to have

• LiveOps experience with events, tournaments, battle passes, seasonal activities, and rewards.
• Knowledge of mid-core genres and systems such as 4X strategy, RPGs, hero collection, battlers, base building, and survival strategy.
• Knowledge of JavaScript or Python for simulations and calculation automation, plus object-oriented programming principles.
• Experience with Git and other version control systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Choice of office, remote, or hybrid work.
• Onboarding and training for new employees.
• Health insurance.
• 100% salary paid during sick leave and vacations.
• Additional sick days.
• Salary paid in USD or GEL according to preference.