Game Director job at Playrix, Remote, 2026

Job Overview

• Company: Playrix
• Role Title: Game Director
• Project Focus: Gardenscapes, Township & New Ventures
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Location: Remote (Global) or Relocation to Playrix Hubs
• Primary Goal: Strategy, LiveOps Excellence, and Team Leadership
• Ambition Level: Tier-1 Global Mobile Market

Playrix, a global leader in mobile game development and the #1 mobile publisher in Europe, is seeking a high-caliber Game Director to steer the future of our world-class hits. With over 2.3 billion installs and 30 million daily active users, our projects like Gardenscapes, Homescapes, and Township are global benchmarks for excellence.

As a Game Director, you will be the strategic architect of our operating strategy. You will lead elite teams of game designers to innovate, optimize, and scale products that reach a third of the world’s population. This is a role for a visionary leader who can balance the creative “soul” of a game with the rigorous, data-driven demands of a multi-billion dollar LiveOps ecosystem.

Executive Compensation & Benefits

At Playrix, we provide our Game directors with virtually unlimited resources to solve complex problems. Our compensation packages are designed to attract the industry’s top 1% of talent.

The Role: Strategic Product Leadership

The Game Director sits at the intersection of game design, data science, and business strategy. You will manage the production and quality of our games across three primary pillars:

1. Flagship Match-3 Evolution (Gardenscapes, Homescapes, Fishdom)

• Innovation: Develop new events and features from scratch to maintain undisputed market leadership.

• AI/ML Integration: Implement cutting-edge approaches to personalize the gaming experience using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

• Visual & Mechanical Overhaul: Radically improve the quality of the match-3 experience, ensuring visuals and mechanics stay ahead of 2026 market trends.

2. Scaling Township

• End-Game Mastery: Invent and implement new mechanics specifically designed for long-term player retention.

• Social Systems: Rethink and revolutionize the layer of social interaction between players to foster deep community engagement.

3. New Games & Soft Launch

• Metrics Analysis: Take charge of product management during the soft launch stage, analyzing retention, ARPU, and LTV.

• Hypothesis Testing: Put forward and validate hypotheses that contribute to significant product improvement before global rollout.

• LiveOps Architecture: Build robust LiveOps systems from the ground up for the next generation of Playrix hits.

Requirements: The Expert Profile

We are looking for a leader who has mastered the “Science of Fun.” You should have a proven track record of managing high-revenue products and high-performing teams.

• Strategic Expertise: Mastery of LiveOps, monetization, and the formation of both short-term and long-term product goals.

• Data Fluency: Deep understanding of market metrics (Retention, ARPU, CPI, etc.). You must be able to build development hypotheses based on complex data sets.

• Market Intuition: Extensive knowledge of mobile gaming trends and emerging development approaches.

• Leadership Experience: Proven success in managing and developing a large game design team within a high-pressure environment.

• Language: Fluency in Russian is required for synchronization with our core expert teams.

• Preferred Experience: Direct experience in casual genres such as Match-3, Solitaire, Expedition, or Merge.

The Playrix Edge: Why Join Us?

Unlimited Resources: Access leading specialists from any department—from AI researchers to world-class artists—to solve the most complex problems in gaming.

• Technological Freedom: We are among the first to use AI to calibrate level difficulty via neural network bots and ML to personalize user journeys. You will have the freedom to introduce these technologies at scale.

• Bureaucracy-Free Environment: We value efficiency over process. You have the freedom to switch out workflows and approaches for more efficient ones without lengthy approval chains.

• Internal Mobility: Move between products or departments (LiveOps, New Games, Marketing Creatives) to keep your professional journey exciting.

• Expert Community: Benefit from a massive internal knowledge base and a mentoring system designed for rapid adaptation.

Working Format & Relocation

Playrix is a global-first company. This role is open to:

1. Remote Work: From any country worldwide (excluding Russia and Belarus).

2. Relocation: Relocation support is available for those wishing to move to one of our international offices.

Summary Checklist for Applicants

Final Thoughts

Being a Game Director at Playrix isn’t just about managing a game; it’s about managing a global phenomenon. You will have the resources of a market leader and the agility of a startup to define what “fun” looks like for 30 million people every day. If you are ready to build world-class hits that stay at the top of the charts, your adventure begins here.