Senior Game Designer

About This Role

This senior game designer role is for a game developer who wants to own the entire player experience of a new midcore mobile squad RPG, from early prototype to validation with real players. The role involves shaping the game's core loop, meta game, and long-term progression, and designing heroes and combat systems. This position suits a designer with a generalist mindset who is comfortable switching between various game design aspects and eager to leverage AI tools in their craft.

Responsibilities

• Shape the game by defining the core loop, meta game, and long-term progression of a new squad RPG together with Product, Art, and Tech
• Take responsibility for the player experience as a whole
• Create hero rosters, abilities, synergies, and squad combat that are easy to learn and deep to master
• Set up the fundamentals of economy, progression, and combat balancing that the game can grow on
• Turn ideas into playable prototypes quickly, test them early, and iterate based on player feedback and data
• Use and drive AI tools and workflows for prototyping, content creation, balancing, and analysis
• Share learnings with the team
• Contribute to market and player tests, interpret results, and make clear, data-informed design decisions

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Game Designer
• Successfully shipped or taken at least one game through early development (concept, prototype, soft launch, or validation)
• Knowledge of the hero collection / squad RPG genre
• Play squad RPG games and can deconstruct what makes the market leaders successful
• Comfortable switching between systems, combat, economy, content, and UX
• Care about the game as a whole
• Hands-on experience with spreadsheets and balancing models for combat, progression, and economy
• Already use AI tools in daily design work and curious to push what is possible with them
• Bring ideas to life using available tools for prototyping
• Thrive in an experimental environment where concepts change and decisions are made fast
• Open-minded, confident working in a multicultural environment, and eager to use English skills every day

Benefits

• Excellent training and development opportunities, such as online trainings, InnoVersity, and conferences
• 28 vacation days
• Sabbatical
• Mobile device
• Contribution to public transport ticket
• Trust-based working hours
• Active breaks, including table tennis, gym access, or rooftop terrace access
• Career models and market-competitive salary grids
• Be part of a stable, growing, and award-winning global company