Lead Game Designer

The Lead Game Designer will be responsible for taking charge on core loop designs, features, and economy tuning for blockchain enabled play & earn games. This role will be actively working with cross-functional team leads, including Producers, Product Managers, Engineers, etc.

The candidate must have experience leading a design team, have experience with data-informed design, provide high-quality design documents, and have a deep understanding of both game design theory and free-to-play game strategies. The candidate will lead the Game Design team, driving all feature design and game content to align with the overall product vision. The candidate will need to regularly communicate with studio leadership, and have strong communication skills for presenting key feature proposals. They are responsible for the fidelity of features from concept to live ops. In addition, the candidate must be able to understand live data, prioritize feedback from multiple sources and incorporate this into revised game content and features.

Responsibilities

• Own major aspects of feature design in both a development and live operations capacity
• Model and balance complex systems like crafting, economic sinks & sources, character progression, and other interdependencies.
• Use your monetization knowledge to create features and content that maintain and improve core KPIs.
• Produce and update product requirement documents / specs that contain details into key functionality and behavioral outcomes, serving as a source of truth for the product
• Implement prototypes, work within the engine to accomplish the design spec, and understand the technical implications of the design
• Contribute to the production roadmap with meaningful features, ideas, and improvements

Qualifications

• 4-6 years experience in a game design role with expertise in mid-core genres or similar.
• 2+ years as a lead level designer.
  • Skills will include, but are not limited to:
    • Deep understanding of free-to-play monetization mechanics including game balancing and virtual economy management
    • Demonstrated proficiency with systems design, game tuning, economy design, user experience design, and design documentation
    • Direct experience working on a top 100 grossing game (mobile or other platforms)
    • Experience working within engine, such as Unity and/or Unreal
    • Ability to communicate your designs and vision to colleagues from different professional backgrounds

Our team values diversity and believes that it strengthens our games, products, and communities. We strongly encourage POC, folks with disabilities, those belonging to the LGBTQIA+ communities, and folks across all gender identities to apply.

We offer our team benefits such as (but not limited to) high-quality Vision, Dental, and Health Care, generous Parental Leave, and Unlimited PTO to ensure that they actually take time off without the stress of needing to accrue time.

If you need assistance around accommodations due to a disability, please reach out to [email protected]. We’ll be with you as soon as possible; our goal is to ensure an accessible and equitable interview process for everyone.