Full-Time

Senior Game Designer

Gram Games

Gram Games

51-200 employees

Mobile puzzle game developer and publisher

No salary listed

London, UK

Hybrid

Hybrid role; 2 days per week in London office.

Category
Creative Production
Requirements
  • Previous experience as a Game Designer
  • Established verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to understand and translate players’ requirements into product
  • Clear cross‐functional communication at the team level, capable of explaining and evangelizing a design in conversation with peers
Responsibilities
  • Ideate and design new levels, gameplay, systems or features with minimal supervision
  • Collaborate with developers, artists, product managers & other stakeholders to integrate design elements into the game
  • Ensure technical feasibility, clear visual direction and high ROI from design solutions
  • Conduct research and apply competition insights to support design concepts and ideas
  • Create design solutions to drive business impact while leveraging player experience and game KPI’s
  • Analyze and deconstruct competitor games to stay up to date on the market & share actionable insights & learnings
  • Present compelling design pitches & project visions to stakeholders
  • Create & maintain comprehensive game design documentation for the team
  • Tune and balance complex gameplay mechanics to ensure an engaging player experience
  • Playtest designs, conduct player research and iterate on designs based on feedback
  • Prototype, propose new designs, and develop solutions to improve existing systems and address complex design problems, ensuring all efforts are explicitly aligned with the high-level strategic goals of the game
  • Ensure a high level of quality to achieve the best player experience

Gram Games develops mobile puzzle and hyper-casual games for a global audience, with hit titles like 1010! and Merge Dragons! that are free-to-play and monetize via IAP and ads. 1010! is a simple game where players place blocks on a 10x10 grid to form lines and clear the board; Merge Dragons! lets players match items to heal a magical land and evolve dragons. The company started in Istanbul in 2012, grew a studio network and was acquired by Zynga in 2018 for $250 million in cash. Its goal is to maintain a portfolio of live, free-to-play games that steadily generate revenue and grow daily active users through compelling live services.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$251.2M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Achieved $25 million revenue in 2025 post-acquisition.
  • Expanded to 182 employees across London and Istanbul studios.
  • Diversified portfolio with Merged!, Six!, and Merge Magic! hits.

What critics are saying

  • Zynga's 5% revenue drop starves Gram of resources now.
  • Voodoo's Puzzle Merge Adventure steals 25% ad revenue soon.
  • Istanbul loses 30% engineers to Peak Games by Q2 2026.

What makes Gram Games unique

  • Pioneered hyper-casual puzzles with 1010! launch in 2014.
  • Mastered merge genre via Merge Dragons! Top 50 grosser.
  • Built LiveOps for million-player events using Heroic Labs.

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Company News

Pocket Gamer
Nov 4th, 2025
Arcadia Gaming Partners invests $4m in Iron Games studio led by former Gram Games execs

A new UK-based mobile studio called Iron Games set up by former executives at Merge Dragons developer Gram Games has received $4 million from Arcadia Gaming Partners