Senior Combat Designer
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What You Will Do
- As a Senior Combat Designer on STFC, you’ll be a key contributor in shaping the long-term combat, gameplay, and player experiences that define how millions of players experience growth and mastery.
- Own the design and balance of combat gameplay that support strategic player decisions across PvE, PvP, and co-op content
- Build and refine novel gameplay experiences focused on officers, ship tech, ships, and hostile challenges
- Create systemic combat experiences that foster meaningful player agency and long-term investment
- Use tools (Excel, Google Sheets) to model combat challenge, economic loops and progression pacing
- Collaborate with Experienced, driven and passionate Designers, Product Managers, Analysts, and Engineers to implement features which aim to advance the genre
- Evaluate performance using data, player feedback, and your own playtest experience
- Design for scale: plan for long-term content extensibility and system health
- Mentor junior designers and help strengthen combat design across the organisation
What We're Looking For
A deep passion for combat and gameplay design
6+ years of experience designing combat and gameplay systems for live, F2P games (preferably MMO, 4X, or strategy genres)
Strong ownership mindset – you can own a feature or content stream from vision to launch to iteration
A proven track record of delivering features that balance player fun, engagement, and monetisation
Comfort with KPI targets and using data to inform balance or tuning adjustments
Mastery of spreadsheets and confidence in balancing power curves, pacing, and resource flow
Experience working cross-functionally and navigating live production environments
A positive, thoughtful, and collaborative approach to game development
Bonus Points
Experience mentoring or leading junior designers
Familiarity with SQL, scripting, or simulation tools
Character collection or squad RPG experiences
Exposure to live ops systems, event design, or server lifecycle planning
Love for Star Trek, sci-fi, or highly strategic social games
Previous work on alliance or co-op gameplay in large-scale games
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About Scopely
Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company, home to many of the world’s most beloved and enduring experiences, including two of the most successful mobile games of all-time “MONOPOLY GO!” and “Pokémon GO,” along with “Stumble Guys,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command,” “MARVEL Strike Force,” “WWE Champions,” the Scrabble® franchise, “Yahtzee® With Buddies,” and many others. Across mobile, web, PC, and console, Scopely creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates one of the most diversified and award-winning portfolios in the games industry — bringing hundreds of millions of players together through a shared love of play.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is powered by its exceptional team — including thousands of world-class gamemakers around the globe, a distinctive tenet-driven culture, and its proprietary technology platform, Playgami. Together, these strengths have fueled Scopely’s position as the #1 mobile games company in the U.S. and #2 globally, generating more than $10 billion in lifetime revenue. Whether building global sensations like “MONOPOLY GO!” from the ground up, or expanding through strategic acquisitions, including the FoxNext, GSN, and Niantic games businesses — Scopely consistently delivers experiences players love today and return to for years to come.
Recognized multiple times as one of the "100 Most Influential Companies in the World" by TIME magazine and one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" and “Best Workplaces for Innovators,” Scopely believes that video games can be a force for good — creating meaningful connections, vibrant communities, and making life better through play.
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