Game Developer

Job Description

As the Game Developer for Hellbreak TCG, you will analyze card designs and manage our external playtest networks to ensure the game remains balanced, engaging, and mechanically sound. You will translate qualitative playtest data into actionable design refinements and ensure our dark horror themes are elegantly integrated into airtight physical rules. This is an ongoing contract opportunity.

How Will You Create Impact?

• Review card files and mechanical submissions with game designers to provide analytical feedback on card effects, mechanical complexity, and overall set architecture.
• Source, vet, and manage a dedicated network of external playtesters and community alpha/beta groups.
• Gather, synthesize, and interpret qualitative feedback and quantitative match data from playtests to address dominant strategies and power creep.
• Collaborate with designers to translate narrative horror elements into elegant analog rules that evoke psychological tension and thematic gameplay.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for external co-development partners, ensuring all deliverables meet design, balancing, and documentation standards.

Skills and Experience

• Proven track record in tabletop game development, set design, or technical editing within trading card games or systems-heavy board games.
• Profound structural understanding of physical trading card game systems and the competitive landscape.
• Strong ability to model game economies, track card asset lists, and analyze set distribution.
• Exceptional technical writing skills with a focus on logic, syntax, and clarity for crafting airtight physical rules and card text.
• Specialized knowledge of the aesthetics and history of the horror genre.

Pay Range

The anticipated pay range for candidates who will work in New York is $38 to $40 per hour. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc.

About the Role

Spin Master is a leading global children's toy, entertainment, and digital gaming company. We are seeking a Game Developer to join our Hellbreak TCG team. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record in tabletop game development, set design, or technical editing within trading card games or systems-heavy board games. They should also possess a profound structural understanding of physical trading card game systems and the competitive landscape, along with strong technical writing skills and specialized knowledge of the horror genre.

Benefits

Spin Master offers comprehensive benefits including growth and career opportunities, flexible work hours, innovation, collaboration, and fun. We strive to create an accessible and inclusive hiring process and provide reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Schedule

This is an ongoing contract opportunity with 4 days in office.