Job Description
- Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for advancement
- Training & development
Principal Game Designer (Engagement / Progression Systems)
Location: Preferred Cary, NC / North Carolina, open to Remote
- What we offer
- Remote option available (NC preferred for team collaboration)
- High-impact design ownership across a large, live-service platform
- Fast iteration environment with strong cross-disciplinary partnership
Role Overview
We are hiring Principal Game Designers to solve high-level engagement challenges across a flagship live-service multiplayer ecosystem. This role focuses on evolving established engagement structures (e.g., quests, passes, progression, rewards) and inventing new systems that guide experience, mastery, and long-term participation.
You will set vision across cross-functional teams, ensure engagement systems support long-term health, and drive rapid iteration—prototype, ship, learn, and refine.
- Responsibilities
- Craft meaningful goals that grow exposure, experience, and mastery of new and existing gameplay mechanics.
- Lead innovation for engagement systems, including progression loops, rewards, and frameworks aligned to engagement metrics.
- Define and communicate a clear experience vision across multiple internal teams and disciplines.
- Partner with product and marketing teams to support satisfaction, ecosystem health, and growth-driving activations.
- Drive iterative live design: prototype quickly, ship improvements, analyze outcomes, and iterate fast.
- Requirements
- 10+ years shipping multiple titles as a game designer.
- Deep experience building engagement content or goal-based progression systems in live-service multiplayer environments.
- Demonstrated ability to empathize with players and translate motivations into durable systems and goals.
- Strong understanding of what drives engagement and long-term participation in multiplayer ecosystems.
- Ability to adapt quickly to shifting needs, make decisions, and own the vision end-to-end.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field preferred (or equivalent experience).
- Player-focused, solutions-driven, innovative, and decisive working style.
This is a remote position.
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