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About the Role

As the Game Developer for Hellbreak TCG, you will analyze card designs and manage 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Location

• New York

Work Type

• Contract
• Hybrid

Salary/Compensations

• $38 to $40 Per Hour

Benefits

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

About the Company

• Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
• Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

Equal Opportunity

• Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
• Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.