Job Description

Staff Product Designer

Hybrid

Location: Plantation, FL

Overview

Talento has partnered with a leading CPG company to identify a Staff Product Designer for a rapidly growing division focused on mass-market board and card games. We are looking for a passionate designer who can translate licensed entertainment brands into engaging, intuitive, and authentic gameplay experiences. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of creativity and analytics — designing systems that encourage repeat play, social interaction, and mass-market appeal.

Responsibilities

• Drive creation and development of original game concepts from ideation through production.
• Design and refine mechanics, turn structures, and components to deliver intuitive, emotionally rewarding, and highly replayable experiences.
• Apply probability modeling and statistical analysis to balance gameplay systems, ensuring tension, fairness, and excitement across player counts and game states.
• Tune expected values and variance to optimize risk/reward systems that scale dynamically over turns and sessions.
• Rapidly prototype (lo-fi and digital) to validate clarity, fun, and player engagement, gathering data and feedback from diverse playtest groups.
• Collaborate with senior designers and cross-functional partners to develop innovative mechanics, components, and systems.
• Adapt gameplay mechanics to licensed entertainment IP while preserving authenticity.
• Contribute to rulebooks and player instructions to ensure seamless onboarding.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience designing published board or card games.
• Proven work on full game systems or major components within a shipped title.
• Familiarity with probability modeling, EV balancing, and bell curve tuning (Excel or other tools).
• Experience adapting mechanics to licensed entertainment IP.
• Hands-on involvement in live playtests with demonstrated ability to iterate based on player feedback.
• Portfolio including authored rules, systems, or instructions.
• Knowledge of the modern tabletop landscape and player behavior trends.
• Strong collaboration skills and solutions-focused mindset.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Multi-lingual (French or Spanish).
• Background in math, statistics, or game theory.
• Ability to build spreadsheets or simulations to model balance, draw rates, or strategy layers.
• Familiarity with manufacturing constraints and component cost considerations.

Pay Rate: $41.55/hr - $51/hr (DOE)

About Talento Human Capital (TalentoHC):

TalentoHC is a leading talent acquisition, executive search, and human capital consulting partner, dedicated to helping our clients build their best teams yet. Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce, embracing individuals from various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Talento Human Capital is an equal opportunity employer.

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