Senior Game Designer, Trading Card Games (TCG)
Fanatics
About the Team
Fanatics TCG is a new trading card game business, the newest member of the Fanatics Collectibles family. We are here to build the best TCG studio and games in the world.
If you have passion, and skill, and if you believe trading card games represent the very best of what games have to offer, please reach out to us.
Role Summary
The Senior Game Designer is a hands-on contributor responsible for designing cards, mechanics, and gameplay experiences that support the overall vision of Fanatics Collectibles’ trading card game while ensuring clarity, balance, and player engagement.
Responsibilities
- Design cards, mechanics, and expansion themes
- Participate in playtesting, tuning, and balance iteration
- Collaborate with art, narrative, and production partners
- Contribute to design documentation and best practices
- Support post-launch updates and ongoing gameplay improvements
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 5 years of professional game or TCG design experience
- Shipped experience on at least one card or competitive game
- Strong understanding of balance, probability, and player psychology
- Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams
Skills & Abilities
- Strong creative instincts paired with attention to detail
- Ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and data
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Passion for trading card games and player-focused design
Location & Compensation
Achieving our goals requires strong collaboration and partnership between our teams and internal stakeholders. To best support this, the person who accepts this role is expected to be onsite in-office five days per week.
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Fanatics Collectibles is a new model and vision for the hobby, fundamentally changing the experience for current and future collectors, leagues, and players across many U.S. and international professional and college sports. The organization has long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several sports and entertainment properties, including MLB, MLBPA, the Premier League, MLS, UFC, Formula 1 as well as Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, among others. In January 2022, Fanatics Collectibles announced the acquisition of Topps, establishing the preeminent licensed trading card brand as the cornerstone of Fanatics’ trading cards and collectibles business, and jumpstarted its MLB and MLBPA rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards