Summary
Location
Portugal
Type
full-time
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About this role
Type: Full time - Remote
Location: Remote - open to all EU locations; residency preferable from Central and Eastern Europe or Turkey
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior/Principal Game Designer to join and help us on our adventure to make great player-centric experiences! This is a full-time, remote position open to candidates based in the EU or Turkey. Join a globally distributed team working at the forefront of game innovation. We’re looking for creative, self-driven, and collaborative problem-solvers.
About UserWise
UserWise is a fast-growing game services company that partners with top studios to scale and operate games reaching millions of players. We specialize in LiveOps, product strategy, game development, and monetization – with a strong focus on speed, quality, and creative impact. Our partners include iconic IPs and leading publishers across mobile and hybrid-casual games.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop core-loops, systems, gameplay, and rewards for casual/hybrid casual games.
- Own feature designs and drive it through the production cycle into release and live-ops.
- Collaborate with Design & Product Management to brainstorm, design, and iterate on features.
- Collaborate with UX and UI to build wireframes and flows that accentuate the feature design.
- Work with developers to ensure that designs are translated into code as per spec.
- Develop post-launch/live-ops features by Integrating events to support the game throughout its life-cycle.
- Pitch, communicate, and maintain a holistic view of the game design to facilitate production and vet ideas.
- Pitch and suggest ideas that can help overcome complex problems to create a better player experience.
- Deconstruct competitor game systems, loops, & features.
- 3 plus years experience in designing features and building games for live-service games.
- Extensive understanding, skills, and experience with core-loop, gameplay, and systems design.
- Proven success in gameplay, game system design, balancing, and live-ops strategies.
- Experience on game engines like Unity is a plus.
- Player centric design and strong player empathy.
- Understanding other design areas outside gameplay and systems is a plus.
- Passion for playing and making games.
- Knowledge in latest mobile gaming trends.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- English is the primary working language; candidates must be fluent in spoken and written English
- Market competitive, tax-free USD salaries
- Paid Time Off
- Performance Bonus
- Annual Performance Reviews
Other facts
About UserWise Services
UserWise Services builds high-performance external teams for game studios that need to move fast, scale intelligently, and operate for the long term 🎮
We focus on LiveOps, growth, maintenance, and portfolio-level product execution. Our teams take real ownership and work as a true extension of our partners, not as a vendor layer.
🤖 AI is core to how we work.
We run production and LiveOps through our proprietary AI-powered toolset, built to accelerate design, content creation, LiveOps execution, and decision-making. This isn’t experimental. It’s part of our daily workflow. How games are built and operated is changing, and we’re building for that reality.
Founded in 2020, we’re trusted by partners including PeopleFun, Tripledot Studios, Halfbrick, AppLovin, and Playful Rewards.
📊 Today, we help manage and grow games generating $100M+ in annual revenue across partner portfolios.
🌍 We operate across the US and EU, with a distributed, senior-leaning team hired globally for speed, judgment, and execution quality.
What sets us apart is how we operate.
We build flexible production and growth teams that feel internal from day one. Ownership stays close to the work. Decisions stay grounded in player impact. Our proprietary tools remove friction across design, art, engineering, data, and LiveOps so teams can focus on what actually moves the needle.
Our principles
⚡ Speed over bureaucracy
🧠 Ownership at every level
🎯 Player-first thinking
🚀 Momentum over perfection
How we partner
• LiveOps & Growth
• Maintenance
• Embedded Teams
• New Game dev
👥 For game talent
UserWise Services connects top global talent with leading studios and real products. You work on games played by millions, with real ownership and room to grow. We handle the overhead so you can focus on building and operating great games.
Founded by product and LiveOps leaders, we stay practical, execution-focused, and grounded in what actually ships.
We’re building for the long term.
Follow along 👋
What you'll do
- Design and develop core-loops, systems, gameplay, and rewards for casual/hybrid casual games. Collaborate with various teams to ensure feature designs are effectively implemented and maintained throughout the game's lifecycle.
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