Who We're Looking For:

Talofa is seeking a Senior Game Designer to work on new social fitness games, including our newly launched game Run Legends. We’re looking for someone passionate about working with a collaborative remote-first team and in a fast-paced live-ops environment.

About Talofa:

• Our award-winning team won the grand prize for the Niantic Beyond Reality Contest in 2019 and has gotten extensive press coverage from VentureBeat, Digital Trends, ScreenRant, and more.
• We’re VC-backed in the seed-stage and have raised several rounds of funding from top Venture Capital firms. 
• Our mission is to make players mentally and physically healthier, and our first game, Run Legends, amassed over 300,000 downloads in less than 3 months and was featured in the App Stores as one of the "Best New Games".
• Together, we’ve created independent games for the last 10 years with over 10 million downloads on the Apple App and Google Play Stores.
• Watch us talk about how we got started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvbsAf3BlrM

Responsibilities:

• Design game features, monetization strategies, and features to improve product KPIs in the long and short term 
• Understand the high-level vision of the game and be able to translate the vision into design docs that different teams can use.
• Communicate and collaborate with different team members across audio, art, development, narrative, and production in making key design decisions.
• Run design meetings with multiple members of the team and manage prioritization and roadmap planning
• Collaborate with stakeholders and create and maintain a calendar of events, content and feature updates designed to improve short and long-term product goals.
• Continuously monitor and optimize game balance and economy to improve product KPI's using live-operations tools in Unity.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience in mobile game design
• Experience monetizing and operating free-to-play/multiplayer games in a live environment.
• Experience analyzing product requirements and defining technical requirements, features and tasks

Nice to have: 

• Experience shipping products in the health and fitness space 
• Experience working in Unity Game Engine
• A love for running or gamified fitness products
• Curiosity about the use of emerging tech (AI, ML, blockchain, etc.) in games

If you’re seriously interested in this position, please email careers+serious@talofagames.com with your resume and cover letter in addition to applying here.