Senior System Designer

Role Overview

• As a Senior System Designer, you will report to the Lead designer and you will work directly with the team members, designers, artists, data scientists and developers.
• Handle large parts of the game and oversee multiple game systems.
• Design metagames, economies, gameplay and any other needed game systems from A to Z.
• Foresee complex issues and resolve them before they happen.
• Turn complexity into simple and fun player facing experiences by analyzing, abstracting and conceptualizing deep systems to reduce them to their essential.
• Design with Fun, User Experience (UX) and product (KPIs) in mind.
• Apply systemic thinking to creative processes and problem solving.
• Create game systems from scratch, balance them and create your own tools when needed.
• Use spreadsheets, projections, system prototyping, simulations, resource flows, flowcharts, game loops, progression curves and any other tools needed to design and communicate clear and functional game systems.
• Use well established theoretical and industry best practices (e.g. Rational Game Design, Compulsion Loops, etc.).
• Produce sustainable game design documentation to facilitate the integration of features and balancings to the game through any part of a game’s life-cycle.
• Collaborate with other designers, creative owners, stakeholders and disciplines to design game systems that work together holistically on all fronts (Fun, UX, Monetization, Engagement, Retention, etc.).
• Mentor other designers into your craft and help them grow.
• Support the project at a foundational level.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a professional game designer.
• Deep understanding and experience of Free-to-Play Live-Ops events and content pipelines.
• Advanced mastery of spreadsheets and other design tools.
• Proficiency with game data structures and configs on a technical level.
• Thorough understanding of games' commercial appeal, including outside your personal gamer demographic.
• Bilingual French/English is preferred.

Benefits

• A 100% flex environnement : from your home, from our offices in the center of the Old Montréal, or in a hybrid mode;
• Flexible hours;
• Social events to connect;
• Healthy breakfast, coffee and tea, and offered lunch;
• Access to our Gym and to its in person and virtual classes starting on your first day;
• Partial refund of your STM/RTM;
• An impressive health plan and virtual medical assistance available 24h/24h;
• Collective RRSP with employer participation, referral and bonus programs.