Senior Game Designer (Puzzles)

Are you passionate about your work and want to pursue your dreams?

Join the ZiMAD team, and let’s collaborate to create exceptional games together!

ZiMAD is a US mobile game publisher and developer that has been at the forefront of the gaming industry since 2009. We are a dynamic multinational team, speaking 15 languages and living in 63 cities across 17 countries. With an impressive portfolio of world-class free-to-play projects, including titles like Magic Jigsaw Puzzles, Puzzle Villa, Art of Puzzles, Dominoes, and many others, we constantly push boundaries and believe that games can be more than just entertainment.

We’ve forged partnerships with internationally renowned IPs (like Disney, Nickelodeon, LIFE, Sony Pictures etc.) and strive to develop games that sharpen mental well-being and deliver remarkable user experiences.

We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to lead the design of cognitive puzzle experiences focused on memory, focus, pattern recognition, logic, attention and daily habit formation.

Responsibilities:

• Design engaging cognitive puzzle gameplay specifically optimized for wellness and cognitive training goals (attention, memory, processing speed, executive functions) for a broad casual audience

• Create short-session cognitive game loops that are easy to start, satisfying to repeat, and support long-term habit formation while remaining entertainment-first

• Define progression, adaptive difficulty, rewards, streaks, milestones and long-term motivation systems tailored to cognitive engagement and daily habit building

• Build clear user journeys from first session to regular daily use, focused on sustainable cognitive habits

• Work closely with Product, UX/UI, Art, Engineering and Analytics

• Turn ideas into clear specs, flows, wireframes and balancing documentation

• Use player data, telemetry and A/B tests to tune challenge, personalization, cognitive difficulty curves and retention

• Keep product framing strictly entertainment/wellness-oriented, without any medical or therapeutic claims

Requirements:

• Senior game design experience in mobile casual, puzzle or F2P games

• Proven hands-on experience designing cognitive training, brain-training, wellness or strong habit-forming products (mobile preferred). Portfolio must clearly highlight relevant work

• Deep understanding of cognitive gameplay mechanics and how to design short, rewarding sessions around attention, memory, processing speed and executive functions for casual audiences

• Strong understanding of retention, progression, live ops and player motivation in the context of daily habit products

• Ability to design simple but deep systems for mature/casual audiences

• Experience with analytics, funnels, cohorts, A/B tests and difficulty tuning (including adaptive/personalized difficulty)

• Clear documentation skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Expected Output:

• Cognitive puzzle concepts grounded in wellness and cognitive training principles

• Progression and personalization systems that adapt to individual engagement and performance patterns

• User journey maps focused on building sustainable daily cognitive habits

• Feature specs ready for implementation

• Telemetry and success-metric plans (engagement, retention, habit formation, session quality)

We offer:

• Opportunity to work for ZiMAD, a US company with a diverse portfolio of global free-to-play (F2P) projects with a multi-million monthly user base

• Involvement in the entire product development cycle

• Career growth prospects within an international company

• Remote work opportunities

• Flexible working schedule

• Bonuses based on the achievement of KPIs and financial results of projects

• Paid conferences, training (including language courses), and workshops

• Opportunity to have sessions with psychologists to improve your mental health and well-being

• Participation in charity projects