Position Overview:

As a Senior Game Designer, you will be responsible for new features, up to and including bold beat scope and impact. You will take on more complex design challenges and lead the development of key game mechanics, levels, and features. As an adept in systems, mechanics, and player experience; you will be accountable for maintaining coherence and balance across entire game. Support the leaders by providing experiential insights from the player perspective. 

At Gram we embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

What You'll Do:

• Ideate and design new levels, gameplay, systems or features with minimal supervision
• Collaborate with developers, artists, product managers & other stakeholders to integrate design elements into the game
• Ensure technical feasibility, clear visual direction and high ROI from design solutions
• Conduct research and apply competition insights to support design concepts and ideas
• Create design solutions to drive business impact while leveraging player experience and game KPI’s
• Analyze and deconstruct competitor games to stay up to date on the market & share actionable insights & learnings
• Present compelling design pitches & project visions to stakeholders
• Create & maintain comprehensive game design documentation for the team
• Tune and balance complex gameplay mechanics to ensure an engaging player experience
• Playtest designs, conduct player research and iterate on designs based on feedback
• Prototype, propose new designs, and develop solutions to improve existing systems and address complex design problems, ensuring all efforts are explicitly aligned with the high-level strategic goals of the game
• Ensure a high level of quality to achieve the best player experience

What You Bring:

• Previous experience as a Game Designer 
• Established verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to understand and translate players’ requirements into product
• Clear cross‐functional communication at the team level, capable of explaining and evangelizing a design in conversation with peers

What We Offer You: 

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead complex projects, craft scalable software solutions, and mentor junior engineers. You will ensure that software meets high standards of quality, performance, and security.

What You’ll Do:

• Plan and implement game features that align with the overall game design.
• Optimize existing game engines to improve performance and scalability.
• Coordinate with other team leads to synchronize development processes.
• Review and produce code and technical design documents of peers to ensure high standards.
• Build and enforce coding standards and guidelines.
• Demonstrate competence in navigating the organization to connect with relevant individuals and resources.

What You Bring:

• Proficiency in C# with essential knowledge of Unity.
• Strong experience in software development.
• Strong understanding of software development principles and methodologies.
• Analyse product code and propose improvement solutions for better performance.
• Maintain code quality by ensuring code reviews and alignment with established standards.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• A hands-on management style with involvement in end-to-end process tracking.
• Understand general business concepts to interpret critical metrics for the business/product (such as DAU, ARPDAU, etc.).
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Familiarity with game development and knowledge of the industry
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.

What We Offer You:

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry.

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a visionary Art Director to join our Studio Leadership Team and spearhead the artistic direction of Merge Dragons! In this key role, you will be responsible for defining the strategy and owning the art direction.

As an experienced leader, you possess a nuanced understanding of leadership, communication, and production practices. You excel at optimising engagement and quality within your team, all while fostering a collaborative environment rooted in the culture and values of Gram Games.

A natural strategic thinker, you have the ability to forecast the future of art creation and translate complex strategies into achievable, high-impact tactical plans. Your expertise will ensure the predictable delivery of art features, technology, and updates, ensuring our creative strategy is always matched by effective and consistent execution.

At Gram we embrace a hybrid work environment. Within this role, you would work 2 days per week in our London office and the remaining days at home.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the end-to-end visual direction for Merge Dragons!, from pre-production through to live operations
• Define the art strategy and tactical plans, ensuring the predictable delivery of high-quality assets and technical features
• Manage and mentor the art leadership team, fostering a high-performance culture focused on growth, morale, and Gram Games’ values
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Tech Art to translate complex systems into intuitive, scalable UI/UX solutions within Unity
• Oversee production pipelines and outsourcing partnerships, ensuring creative goals are met within technical and performance constraints
• Present the art vision and project updates with gravitas to the wider organization and studio leadership
• Evaluate and integrate emerging trends and technologies—including AI tools—to optimize the art pipeline and maintain a competitive edge

What You Bring: 

• Proven Leadership: A track record of leading art teams for games, through the full development lifecycle—from early concepting to live operations
• Engine Expertise: Strong working knowledge of Unity pipelines and a clear understanding of how to align artistic vision with technical performance targets
• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: The ability to turn complex game systems into clear, player-centric experiences through close partnership with Engineering and Design
• Artistic Fundamentals: Mastery of colour theory, lighting, and composition, and the ability to apply these fundamentals to influence the game’s overall direction
• Strategic Mindset: "Outside-the-box" thinking regarding new art features and a proactive approach to solving production challenges
• Communication Skills: Experience creating supporting materials (style guides, mood boards, etc.) to clearly articulate art direction to internal and external departments
• Positive Energy: An energetic, "can-do" attitude that inspires peers and fosters a collaborative atmosphere

Bonus Points:

• Experience within the mobile gaming sector
• Proven experience leading UI/UX direction for a shipped title
• A portfolio that demonstrates both high-level UI visual quality and deep UX thinking
• Experience creating and maintaining robust UI design systems

What We Offer You: 

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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As a Marketing Artist on our user acquisition focused creative team, you will play a significant role in promoting Zynga’s mobile games. You will work closely with our marketing creative team to produce visual communications that showcase exciting features of upcoming games, as well as live features and events of current titles. This responsibility requires an ability to execute quickly and efficiently against a broad range of tasks across all areas of the game’s portfolio, from creating promotional images & motion graphics to helping edit 2D animation.

You will be a key, hands-on figure in the overall design pipeline, collaborating with stakeholders  to produce compelling content that engages audiences to install and play our mobile games worldwide.

Responsibilities will include:

• Create new, original creatives, guided by feedback from the team and UA
• Identify new market trends and conduct creative analysis of competitor ads
• Begin to build relationships with external agencies and partners via meetings and workshops 
• Produce documentation for creative tracking and insights based on in house data
• Work independently and without close supervision, but check-ins regularly 
• Be agile, take ownership of projects and responsibility quickly and efficiently to new demands, priorities or changes in direction 

Requirements 

• At least 3+ years experience in a similar role
• Understanding and experience working with casual mobile games
• Advanced knowledge of key creative software (Adobe Creative Suite)
• Experience working on live projects or products 
• UA/digital marketing knowledge is desirable but not essential
• 3D software & Unity knowledge is desirable but not essential
• JIRA experience desirable but not essential
• A portfolio of recent work demonstrating your skill and breadth of experience

What We Offer You

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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Position Overview:

As a Senior Game Economy Designer, you will build and optimize in-game economies that balance engaging player experience with sustainable monetization. Applying data-driven models and game design principles, you will focus on improving long-term retention, revenue, and player satisfaction throughout the game’s lifecycle!

What You’ll Do:

• Economy Design & Optimization: Design, manage, and optimize complex in-game economies, including virtual goods, currencies, pricing models, and reward systems for events and progression paths. Set ideal pricing to balance long-term player satisfaction with strong monetization opportunities.
• Modeling & Simulation: Build models, predictive simulations, and prototypes to proactively forecast the impact of game features, content updates, and game balance on player behavior.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Define critical metrics, plan A/B testing, and analyze game data to continuously iterate on live features and address economic issues. Ensure balanced revenue growth without sacrificing player engagement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Game Design, Data, Engineering, and LiveOps teams to deliver impactful features and craft the most efficient experience for players. Provide expert advice and support data-informed decision making across the studio.

What You Bring:

• At least 3 years of prior experience in mobile/freemium games in roles such as economy design, game design, data science, liveops, or product.
• Strong analytical skills and logical thinking, with proven experience in data-oriented projects.
• Strong interpersonal communication, highly collaborative, open-minded, and self-motivated.
• A degree in economics or a related field.
• Advanced level of English.

Benefits

In return for bringing your expertise to this top-priority role, we offer some of the best benefits in the gaming industry!

• Highly competitive salary
• Private medical care
• Company bonus scheme
• Relocation assistance for those moving to the UK
• Awesome onsite chef serving breakfast, lunch, and lots of treats (naughty and nice)
• Life insurance and a favorable pension scheme
• Healthcare cash plan, including dental and optical coverage
• Amazing tech to work with and consoles to play and relax with everywhere you look!

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