Staff Game Designer

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Requirements:

• A holistic view of game systems and the downstream effects of all design decisions throughout both the product and player lifecycle.
• A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that allows you to design from first principles.
• Ability to articulate the nuances of abstract concepts and how they apply to complex, interrelated systems.
• Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.
• Extensive knowledge of games as a service and live operations – you know what good looks like and can build efficient design processes, workflows, and tooling to enable it.
• Enthusiasm for directing, mentoring, and otherwise elevating the people around you to do their best work.
• A natural curiosity and eagerness to learn

Responsibilities:

• Design core systems in our new games that are critical to their success by:
• Creating proposals that articulate how these features and systems uphold the game’s design pillars and drive the desired player behaviors
• Delivering clear, concise, and thorough specifications to cross functional teams responsible for implementing these systems
• Providing team members with direction on how content should be created, tuned, and live operated within these systems