Game Designer

Job Description

Miniclip is looking for a Game Designer to join our Lisbon (PT) Studio. This is an exciting role working with a leading digital games and entertainment company. You will focus on economy, progression, LiveOps systems, and monetisation design for free-to-play mobile games, using data and iteration to improve player engagement, retention, and revenue.

What will you be doing at Miniclip?

• Own and evolve core economy & progression systems (sources/sinks, pacing, balancing, inflation control, multi-currency setups).

• Build and iterate LiveOps systems (event structures, calendars, reward tracks, recurring loops) that drive engagement, retention, and monetisation.

• Use analytics and experimentation to guide design decisions (KPIs, cohorts, player segmentation, A/B tests, post-release tuning).

• Collaborate across disciplines (Product, Analytics, Engineering, Art, QA) to take systems from concept to implementation and live iteration.

• Contribute to product planning across the lifecycle: prototyping, production and live operations - delivering high-impact updates and improvements to live titles.

• Help identify and deconstruct new market opportunities and player needs, staying at the cutting edge of mobile F2P design.

• Partner with Engineering to ensure systems are robust, configurable, and LiveOps-friendly (tooling, remote config/tuning, live iteration support).

• Work closely with Product and Analytics to define hypotheses, interpret results, and translate insights into design actions.

• Present and articulate designs clearly, aligning teams around goals, constraints, and trade-offs.

• Support the wider team with subject-matter expertise in F2P economy, systems, LiveOps and monetisation design.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in systems design, economy design, monetisation design, and LiveOps on free-to-play mobile games (scope and ownership level appropriate for mid → senior).

• Strong understanding of complex economies (multi-currency, progression, rewards, sinks/sources) and how to balance them over time.

• Solid knowledge of mobile F2P design techniques to drive engagement, retention, and monetisation.

• Comfortable working with game analytics and turning data into actionable design decisions (including experiment-driven iteration).

• Strong grasp of mobile user experience and ability to empathise with different player types and motivations.

• Creative problem solver with the ability to design clear, scalable systems and communicate them through high-quality documentation.

• Self-critical and iterative mindset: able to evaluate trade-offs, improve solutions, and collaborate effectively.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Unity and/or proprietary tools/editors for implementing and tuning game systems.

• Strong spreadsheet / simulation skills for economy modelling and balancing.

• Experience running LiveOps at scale (segmentation, personalization, long-term event planning, content cadence).