Join Burny Games — a Ukrainian company that creates mobile puzzle games.
🔥 Our mission: To challenge players’ minds every day with innovative, high-quality gaming experiences.
What makes us proud?
- In just two years, we've launched three successful mobile games worldwide: Playdoku, Colorwood Sort, Colorwood Words. We have paused some projects to focus on making our games better and helping our team improve.
- Our games have been enjoyed by over 10 million players worldwide, and we keep attracting more players.
- We've created a culture where we make decisions based on data, which helps us grow every month.
- We believe in keeping things simple, focusing on creativity, and always searching for new and effective solutions.
What are you working on?
- Genres: Puzzle, Casual
- Platforms: Mobile, iOS, Android, Social
🚀 Top Titles:
🎨 Colorwood Sort – #1 sorting game
📝 Colorwood Words – made in 71 days
🧩 Colorwood Blocks – unique art & gameplay
Playdoku – our first top game
Team size and structure?
100+ employees
Our ideal candidate should have:
Hard Skills & Experience
- Proven track record in mobile F2P game design, ideally with puzzle or logic games.
- Experience in building game design systems from scratch and scaling processes within a growing team.
- Strong analytical background – experience working as an analyst, monetization expert, or system designer is a big plus.
- Expert-level Excel skills – you’re comfortable modeling game systems and balancing data-heavy features.
- Experience with LiveOps — designing events, seasonal content, and engagement loops.
- Comfortable owning both high-level strategy and hands-on design details.
- Ability to work across multiple teams and projects simultaneously.
Soft Skills
- Strong people leadership skills — you’ve built and mentored teams, and can scale culture as well as capability.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration — especially with production and analytics.
- Can work well in unclear situations and adapt to change quickly.
- High sense of ownership — you care deeply about product quality, team success, and player satisfaction.
Nice to Have
- Experience as a switcher from analytics or monetization into game design.
- Familiarity with F2P monetization models and game economy balancing.
- Experience working in companies with a strong product-driven culture.
- Background in live puzzle games, word or logic-based genres is a big plus.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the overall game design direction across multiple projects — from core mechanics and systems to content loops and monetization.
- Collaborate closely with producers, analysts, and product leads to align design with business and player goals.
- Establish and maintain design processes, quality standards, and documentation across all game design disciplines [core, meta, economy, LiveOps].
- Build and lead a high-performing game design team — from hiring and mentoring to setting performance expectations and growing future leaders.
- Guide the creation of content and events that support LiveOps strategies and drive key KPIs [retention, engagement, monetization].
- Drive data-informed design decisions in collaboration with analysts, leveraging player behavior insights and A/B testing.
- Act as the domain expert and final authority on design quality and cohesion across all game features and live content.
- Work closely with the production team to ensure smooth communication between design, development, and operations.
What we offer:
- 100% payment of vacations and sick leave [20 days vacation, 22 days sick leave], medical insurance.
- A team of the best professionals in the games industry.
- Flexible schedule [start of work from 8 to 11, 8 hours/day].
- L&D center with courses.
- Self-learning library, access to paid courses.
- We provide the necessary hardware for work.
The recruitment process:
CV review → Interview with Talent Acquisition Manager → Interview with Hiring Manager → Test Task → Interview with CEO → Job Offer.
If you share our goals and values and are eager to join a team of dedicated professionals, we invite you to take the next step.
