Senior Match-3 Designer, New Game

<p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><div style="text-align:left"><img style="max-width:100%" src="https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1246dead-d30e-4c70-a1d3-ef7e5023d542/2251b9c4-44ce-4ce5-8e1f-2bcd38676418/new%20keyart.jpg" /></div><h3><strong>We’re looking for a talented and highly experienced Senior Match-3 Designer (internally Game Designer) to join our lovely and ambitious game team and help craft fun, rewarding and memorable puzzle experiences for our cozy mobile game.</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ll own the overall match-3 gameplay experience, helping to define how the puzzle game feels to play while delivering best-in-class levels that strike the right balance of challenge, progression and delight. From core gameplay tuning and mechanic development through to polished, data-informed level iterations, you’ll take ownership of the player experience and continually raise the quality bar.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You’ll work closely with game designers, artists, developers and analysts to ensure the match-3 is satisfying, intuitive and rewarding, evolving its mechanics, pacing and feel so that the game’s creative vision and long-term engagement goals come through. You’ll use player feedback, analytics and playtesting to refine gameplay, experiment with new ideas and shape the ongoing evolution of the game’s core puzzle experience.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a senior member of the team, you’ll also help shape our level production strategy, driving quality with both internal development and external partners while contributing to the long-term direction of the game.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><div style="text-align:left"><img style="max-width:100%" src="https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1246dead-d30e-4c70-a1d3-ef7e5023d542/7a053edc-bf2e-4db4-85ee-5630e2b5d305/banner_narrow_customs.jpg" /></div><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What You'll Be Doing</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, build and balance exceptional match-3 levels that deliver engaging gameplay across a wide range of player skill levels.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with developers to tune game feel and match 3 gameplay to be best-in-class</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the design of blockers, boosters and rewards and shape satisfying level progression</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use analytics, player feedback and playtesting to continuously refine levels and improve player experience.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work alongside Engineering to improve level design tools, workflows and implementation processes.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with Art to ensure levels are visually readable, aesthetically cohesive and support the game’s creative vision.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Plan and own Match 3 content production, ensuring a consistent pipeline of high-quality content that supports development milestones and LiveOps.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead external level design contractors and outsourcing partners by providing clear briefs, regular feedback and quality reviews, ensuring all delivered content meets Treefrog’s standards.</p></li></ul></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mentor other designers through feedback, knowledge sharing and collaborative p