Senior Meta Designer — Live Ops & Progression (Hybrid)

zyngacareers; United States; Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

26 days holiday

Maternity/paternity leave

Pension plan

Private medical & dental

Life insurance

Mental health support

Stock Purchase Plan

Fitness reimbursement

Flexible working hours

Social events

Rail season ticket

Job summary

Zynga, the global creator of social and mobile games, is seeking a talented Meta Designer to join our London studio. You will shape metagame, progression, and live‑service features for a first‑person shooter mobile title, owning features from conception through live iterations.

You will coordinate with design, art, UX, engineering, and product management to iterate on live data, refine economies, and balance engagement.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Metagame / Progression / Engagement Design or an equivalent role in the video game industry.
• At least one shipped title in a design role for a live service title.
• Experience designing and implementing progression, economy, or engagement features for live games. Knowledge and experience analyzing KPIs and player behaviour data.
• Familiarity with the Unreal game engine.
• Ability to analyse gameplay data and player feedback to inform and balance design decisions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across cross‑disciplinary teams.
• The ability to manage multiple designs in a fast‑paced development environment.
• Passionate about action games with a deep understanding of what makes enemy designs engaging and memorable.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of designing, prototyping, and implementing progression, economy, and engagement features that align with the creative vision of the game.
• Help define, analyze, and take action on analytics, feature data, and KPIs.
• Work closely with live and product management teams to define goals and implement solutions to boost engagement.
• Collaborate closely with art, animation, audio, design and engineering teams to build content and solve problems in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Develop and balance in‑game economies across many different metagame features.
• Work closely with UX and engineering to ensure features are implemented in ways that meet the engagement goals.
• Analyse player data, feedback, and behaviours to identify and fix metagame issues and retention barriers.
• Work concurrently on multiple features at varying stages of development, managing priorities effectively as content pipelines run in parallel.
• Document and communicate metagame feature concepts clearly to ensure alignment across all development teams.

Skills

Metagame design

Progression design

Engagement design

Live service

Unreal Engine

Data analysis

Cross-disciplinary

Multi-design management

Action games

Job description

Zynga, the global creator of social and mobile games, is seeking a talented Meta Designer to join our London studio. You will shape metagame, progression, and live‑service features for a first‑person shooter mobile title, owning features from conception through live iterations.

You will coordinate with design, art, UX, engineering, and product management to iterate on live data, refine economies, and balance engagement.