Behavioral Designer / Gamification Specialist

Behavioral Designer / Gamification Specialist

Location: Flexible / Remote
Type: Full-time

About Spaarkd

Spaarkd is reimagining how fashion is created, backed, and brought to life. We’re building the world’s living fashion encyclopedia — a place where anyone can design, back, and own iconic fashion drops. Powered by AI and community support, Spaarkd is turning design dreams into real products.

We already have a powerful network-effect model with creators, backers, and angels. Now, we’re looking to supercharge engagement and retention through smart, joyful, and habit-forming product experiences.

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The Role

We are searching for a Behavioral Designer / Gamification Specialist to hardwire delight, stickiness, and viral energy into Spaarkd’s product. Your mission is to turn product interactions into loops — making users come back, engage, and share. You’ll take inspiration from the best of gaming, social apps, and behavioral science to create mechanics like golden tickets, streaks, collectibles, and angel rewards that fuel our growth.

This is not about ads or funnels. It’s about building behaviors inside the product.

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Responsibilities

• Design engagement systems — streaks, progress bars, collectible rewards, milestones, leaderboards, and golden tickets.

• Architect habit loops that keep creators, backers, and angels coming back daily/weekly.

• Apply behavioral science models (Hooked model, Fogg Behavior Model, scarcity/reward systems) to our product design.

• Prototype and experiment — work with product + engineering to ship and test gamified features.

• Boost virality — design in-product referral and sharing mechanics that feel fun and rewarding.

• Obsess over retention metrics — understand what drives repeat visits and optimize those levers.

• Benchmark the best — stay inspired by gaming, social, and fintech products known for sticky mechanics.

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Requirements

• Proven experience designing gamification, behavioral systems, or retention mechanics in a consumer app, game, or social platform.

• Deep knowledge of behavioral psychology, habit formation, and reward mechanics.

• Portfolio/examples of features you’ve shipped that drove engagement or retention.

• Strong collaboration skills with product, design, and engineering.

• Curious, creative, and experimental mindset.

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What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 months)

• Retention: Increase D30 retention of angels/backers by measurable % uplift.

• Engagement: WAU/MAU ratio grows steadily through gamified systems.

• Virality: 1–2 new referral/loop mechanics live and adopted.

• Joy factor: Users report higher delight, surprise, and community buzz from product interactions.

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Why Join Us

At Spaarkd, you won’t just be adding gamification badges — you’ll be architecting the emotional engine of a platform that could democratize the entire fashion industry. Your work will define how millions of creators and backers connect, play, and build together.