Scopely · 18 hours ago
Senior Game Designer - WWE Champions
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, and they are seeking a Senior Game Designer to join their WWE Champions team. The role involves owning the design and delivery of new features and systems that enhance player engagement, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior designers.
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Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end design and delivery of new features and systems that enhance player engagement, retention, and monetization
Work hands-on to conceptualize, prototype, and iterate on meta systems, game modes, events, challenges, and social mechanics that align with the game’s audience and brand tone
Contribute to systems design discussions around economy, progression, and balancing to support feature goals
Evaluate live data and player feedback to identify opportunities for iterative improvements to core loops, game modes and live-ops features
Translate high-level business and creative goals into detailed feature specs, wireframes, and documentation
Partner closely with Product, Analytics, and Engineering to design, tune, and optimize features based on player behavior and game KPIs
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Art, UX, Production) to ensure features are implemented to spec and deliver strong player experiences
Stay current on market trends, competitor titles, and evolving F2P design strategies
Mentor junior designers by providing feedback and guiding best practices in documentation, ideation, and execution
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in game design
Proven ability to design and deliver impactful live features such as game modes, challenges, events, etc
Proven experience in systems design, progression modelling and feature development
Experience working on live games, especially in the F2P mobile space
A proven track record of delivering features that balance player fun, engagement, and monetisation
Familiarity with systems and economy design, including tuning, progression modeling, and numerical balancing
Experience working cross-functionally and navigating live production environments
A positive, thoughtful, and collaborative approach to game development
Strong understanding of feature design fundamentals — player motivation, usability, pacing, and reward systems
Analytical mindset - comfortable interpreting data to inform design choices
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across disciplines
Excellent documentation skills - able to clearly articulate design intent through specs, diagrams, and user flows
Hands-on experience with Excel and Google Sheets
Passion for F2P mobile games, especially character-collection RPGs and combat-based systems
Preferred
Experience designing features for character-collection RPGs or combat-based mobile titles
Ability to mentor other designers and influence cross-team creative direction
Experience working on mobile F2P games
Familiarity with WWE
Experience developing in Unity
Benefits
Healthcare benefits
Retirement benefits
Pet insurance
Paid holidays
Paid Scopely free days
Unlimited paid time off
Company
Scopely
Scopely is an entertainment and video game company that creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games.
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2025 (16)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$998.5MKey Investors
NewView CapitalRevolution GrowthAnthem Venture Partners
2023-04-05Acquired
2021-10-18Secondary Market
2020-12-11Secondary Market
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