Date: 28 Jul 2026
Location: Lisbon, PT
#job-location.job-location-inline { display: inline; }
Company: Miniclip
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to help evaluate, guide, and improve mobile games developed by external studios. This role sits at the intersection of game design, product, analytics, publishing, and studio collaboration.
You will work closely with external developers and internal teams to help shape high-potential games from early concept through prototype, soft launch, global launch, and live operations.
What will you be doing at Miniclip?
As a Senior Game Designer, you will support external development studios by reviewing concepts, validating prototypes, identifying design risks, and providing clear recommendations to improve player experience, retention, monetization, and long-term scalability.
This is not only a hands-on design role, but also a strategic validation role. You will help Miniclip identify which games have potential, what needs to improve, and how studios can move their games through the next stage of development.
You will work across casual, hybrid-casual puzzle, idle, RPG, tower defence and other accessible mobile genres, helping external partners build games that can reach a broad global audience.
Responsibilities
Support external development studios in shaping mobile game concepts from early ideation through prototype, soft launch, global launch, and live operations.
Review and validate game concepts, prototypes, builds, and feature designs against Miniclip’s quality, retention, monetization, and marketability expectations.
Provide clear, actionable design feedback to studios on core gameplay, FTUE, progression, difficulty, economy, rewards, monetization, and long-term engagement.
Help studios design accessible gameplay experiences for a broad global audience, while adding depth, mastery, meta-progression, and retention-focused systems.
Work closely with Product, Analytics, UA, Monetization, and Publishing teams to evaluate external games using player data, market signals, and KPI performance.
Guide studios through Miniclip’s development and validation funnel, ensuring each stage has clear design goals, success criteria, and next-step recommendations.
Use player behaviour, A/B test results, and soft-launch data to identify design risks, improvement areas, and opportunities for stronger product-market fit.
Support post-launch design strategy by advising studios on live events, new content, feature improvements, difficulty tuning, and economy rebalancing.
Deconstruct Miniclip titles, competitor games, and wider mobile market trends to recommend new concepts, mechanics, features, and genre opportunities to external partners.
Create concise design briefs, review notes, feature recommendations, balancing feedback, and prototype guidance that help studios move quickly and stay aligned.
What are we looking for?
At least 5+ years of experience as a Game Designer, preferably within free-to-play mobile games.
Strong understanding of mobile game design principles, including core loops, FTUE, core progression, rewards, economies, difficulty, retention, and monetization.
Experience designing or evaluating casual and/or hybrid-casual, especially puzzle, Idle, RPG, TDs.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret player data, identify design patterns, evaluate A/B tests, and turn insights into actionable feedback.
Good understanding of mobile KPIs such as retention, session length, playtime, conversion, ARPDAU, LTV, CPI, ROAS, IPM, and churn.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to give constructive feedback to external studios and align internal stakeholders around clear design recommendations.
Ability to balance player experience, commercial potential, production constraints, and studio capabilities when evaluating game opportunities.
Strong creative and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify practical design improvements that can increase a game’s chance of success.
Desired Skills
Experience working with external studios, publishing teams, co-development partners, or distributed development teams.
Prior design experience in core aspects of a successful Hybrid Casual title is strong plus.
Familiarity with Figma, Miro, FigJam, or similar tools for wireframes, flows, mock-ups, and design communication.
Track record of working on successful casual, hybrid-casual, hyper-casual, mobile F2P, or AAA titles.
Experience prototyping or validating game concepts using code, Unity, no-code tools, AI tools, or rapid design mock-ups.
Experience supporting live games through events, content updates, economy tuning, battle passes, missions, or social systems.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to help evaluate, guide, and improve mobile games developed by external studios. This role sits at the intersection of game design, product, analytics, publishing, and studio collaboration.
You will work closely with external developers and internal teams to help shape high-potential games from early concept through prototype, soft launch, global launch, and live operations.
What will you be doing at Miniclip?
As a Senior Game Designer, you will support external development studios by reviewing concepts, validating prototypes, identifying design risks, and providing clear recommendations to improve player experience, retention, monetization, and long-term scalability.
This is not only a hands-on design role, but also a strategic validation role. You will help Miniclip identify which games have potential, what needs to improve, and how studios can move their games through the next stage of development.
You will work across casual, hybrid-casual puzzle, idle, RPG, tower defence and other accessible mobile genres, helping external partners build games that can reach a broad global audience.
Responsibilities
Support external development studios in shaping mobile game concepts from early ideation through prototype, soft launch, global launch, and live operations.
Review and validate game concepts, prototypes, builds, and feature designs against Miniclip’s quality, retention, monetization, and marketability expectations.
Provide clear, actionable design feedback to studios on core gameplay, FTUE, progression, difficulty, economy, rewards, monetization, and long-term engagement.
Help studios design accessible gameplay experiences for a broad global audience, while adding depth, mastery, meta-progression, and retention-focused systems.
Work closely with Product, Analytics, UA, Monetization, and Publishing teams to evaluate external games using player data, market signals, and KPI performance.
Guide studios through Miniclip’s development and validation funnel, ensuring each stage has clear design goals, success criteria, and next-step recommendations.
Use player behaviour, A/B test results, and soft-launch data to identify design risks, improvement areas, and opportunities for stronger product-market fit.
Support post-launch design strategy by advising studios on live events, new content, feature improvements, difficulty tuning, and economy rebalancing.
Deconstruct Miniclip titles, competitor games, and wider mobile market trends to recommend new concepts, mechanics, features, and genre opportunities to external partners.
Create concise design briefs, review notes, feature recommendations, balancing feedback, and prototype guidance that help studios move quickly and stay aligned.
What are we looking for?
At least 5+ years or equivalent experience as a Game Designer, preferably within free-to-play mobile games.
Strong understanding of mobile game design principles, including core loops, FTUE, core progression, rewards, economies, difficulty, retention, and monetization.
Experience designing or evaluating casual and/or hybrid-casual, especially puzzle, Idle, RPG, TDs.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret player data, identify design patterns, evaluate A/B tests, and turn insights into actionable feedback.
Good understanding of mobile KPIs such as retention, session length, playtime, conversion, ARPDAU, LTV, CPI, ROAS, IPM, and churn.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to give constructive feedback to external studios and align internal stakeholders around clear design recommendations.
Ability to balance player experience, commercial potential, production constraints, and studio capabilities when evaluating game opportunities.
Strong creative and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify practical design improvements that can increase a game’s chance of success.
Desired Skills
Experience working with external studios, publishing teams, co-development partners, or distributed development teams.
Prior design experience in core aspects of a successful Hybrid Casual title is strong plus.
Familiarity with Figma, Miro, FigJam, or similar tools for wireframes, flows, mock-ups, and design communication.
Track record of working on successful casual, hybrid-casual, hyper-casual, mobile F2P, or AAA titles.
Experience prototyping or validating game concepts using code, Unity, no-code tools, AI tools, or rapid design mock-ups.
Experience supporting live games through events, content updates, economy tuning, battle passes, missions, or social systems.
About Miniclip
Miniclip is a global leader in games and one of the world's biggest developers and publishers of mobile games, with a mission of unleashing the gamer in everyone. It distributes highly engaging games to a global audience of over 450 million monthly and 70 million daily active users across mobile, PC, console, social, and online platforms. Operating in 15 countries, Miniclip develops and launches games in multiple categories across its 22 studios.
Founded in 2001 with an internationally recognised brand name, Miniclip has successfully grown a global audience across 195 countries and six continents. It has a unique understanding of the games space, developing and distributing a strong portfolio of over 60 high-quality mobile games globally.
To date, Miniclip’s studios and companies have generated more than 10.5 billion downloads, including the following games: 8 Ball Pool, Subway Surfers, Golf Battle, Football Strike, Carrom Pool, OSM - Online Soccer Manager™, Football Rivals , Pure Sniper , Puzzle Page™, Head Ball 2, Motorsport Manager, Darts of Fury, Ultimate Golf, Mini Football, Triple Match 3D™, Agar.io, PowerWash Simulator, Sudoku.com™, and We Are Warriors™.
For more information, visit https://miniclip.com/
