Principal Game Designer (Puzzle Core) Help craft the moment to moment magic of a new King Game Join our New Games Studio and help build the next generation of King experiences. We're developing a new casual puzzle game and we're looking for a Principal Game Designer to help shape the feel, challenge, and moment to moment fun of the game.

Principal Game

Designer (Puzzle Core) Help craft the moment to moment magic of a new King Game Join our New Games Studio and help build the next generation of King experiences. We're developing a new casual puzzle game and we're looking for a Principal Game Designer to help shape the feel, challenge, and moment to moment fun of the game. Working closely project Leadership, you will help craft gameplay that is deeply satisfying, approachable, and scalable across thousands of levels, ensuring that the game delivers both delightful player experiences and strong long term engagement.

As a Principal Game Designer, you will play a key role in defining and refining the core gameplay systems of the game, helping ensure the puzzle experience remains engaging, readable, and satisfying for players across the entire progression journey. You will work closely with other designers, artists, engineers, and product partners to bring gameplay features to life and ensure they align with both the creative vision and the broader game strategy. Partner with Product Managers and Data Scientists to analyse player behaviour and tune gameplay difficulty, progression, and engagement.

Prototype and develop new gameplay mechanics, exploring ideas that enhance the puzzle experience and expand the game's design space. Ensure gameplay systems align with the game's broader meta and economy systems, working with systems and economy designers when necessary.



Maintain high standards of design quality, balancing creative ambition with technical constraints and production realities.

Stay connected to the market, analysing puzzle and casual games to identify emerging trends and opportunities.

Experience working on mobile games, particularly free to play titles. Strong passion for casual mobile games and meta game design. Proven experience designing meta systems, progression frameworks, or long term engagement mechanics in successful games. Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret player behaviour and data insights to guide iteration.

Experience working on Sorting / Match Pair / Match 3D mechanics is especially valuable.

Game Experience

We're looking for someone with a strong background in creating video games and a passion for designing compelling casual meta experiences. Officially, we're a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world. Every day at King, we blend intuition with analysis, art with science, and imagination with execution to craft games the world loves to play.

Making games is fun. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile titles such as Farm Heroes Saga. Around 200 million people play a King game every month. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ:

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