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Associate Game Designer - Casual Play

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

The Play Design team is a hardworking, vibrant, collaborative team dedicated to making playing Magic as fun as it can be. Game Designers on our team touch cards from beginning to end, working with all the various design fields to ensure we’re making successful products. This includes card design, mechanic design, product exploration, and many other design tasks.

This Associate Casual Play Designer role draws on your Magic knowledge, your curiosity & enthusiastic appetite for learning, and a deep passion to make great gameplay. You’ll collaborate with our team of exceptional designers to play and refine cards serving a broad variety of audiences!

What is this role all about

This role is about exploration and learning, playing and listening, designing and iterating, and collaboratively improving both our Commander and more casual oriented offerings. This is primarily achieved through a combination of playing, thinking, playing, evaluating, playing, talking, playing, testing, and iterating.

What you’ll do

• Playtest a ton of Commander
• Give feedback and work with Game Design Leads to improve individual card designs, deck themes and above all, achieve amazingly fun gameplay
• Serve as a contributing member of Game Design teams across many our sets
• Participate in team meetings and discussions by adding constructive, reasoned, provocative insights to the conversation

What you’ll bring

• A familiarity with Magic/TCG design and a demonstrable, dedicated drive for Game Design
• Self-motivated curiosity and creative thinking.
• Positive, energetic, and articulate communication to improve our shared vision.
• Flexible, adaptable approach with a constant thirst for knowledge.
• A new perspective, a desire to learn and a commitment to make some great Magic.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you are selected to move forward in our application process and need to request an accommodation, please let your recruiter or coordinator know.