Senior Game Systems Designer

Role Overview

• Take ownership of large sections of the game and oversee multiple game systems.
• Design meta-games, economies, gameplay, and any other required game systems from A to Z.
• Anticipate complex issues and resolve them before they occur.
• Turn complexity into simple, fun player experiences by analyzing, abstracting, and conceptualizing deep systems down to their essentials.
• Design with a focus on fun, user experience (UX), and product metrics (KPIs).
• Apply systems thinking to creative processes and problem solving.
• Create game systems from scratch, balance them, and develop your own tools if necessary.
• Use spreadsheets, projections, system prototypes, simulations, resource flows, flowcharts, game loops, progression curves, and any other tools needed to design and communicate clear, functional game systems.
• Apply well-established theoretical and industry best practices (e.g., Rational Game Design, compulsion loops, etc.).
• Produce sustainable game design documentation to facilitate feature integration and rebalancing at any point in a game's lifecycle.
• Collaborate with other designers, creative leads, stakeholders, and disciplines to design game systems that work together holistically across all fronts (fun, UX, monetization, engagement, retention, etc.).
• Mentor other designers in your discipline and help them grow.
• Support the project at a fundamental level.

Requirements

• More than 6 years of experience as a professional game designer.
• Deep knowledge of and experience with Free-to-Play Live-Ops and content pipelines.
• Advanced proficiency with spreadsheets and other design tools.
• Strong mastery of game data structures and configuration at a technical level.
• Thorough understanding of the commercial appeal of games, including audiences outside your personal player demographic.
• Bilingual in French and English.

Tech Stack

• Flux

Benefits

• A 100% flexible work environment: work from home, from our offices in the heart of Old Montreal, or in a hybrid arrangement;
• Flexible hours;
• Social events to connect with colleagues;
• Healthy lunches, coffee and tea, and provided lunches;
• Access to our gym and to virtual and in-person classes from your first day;
• Partial reimbursement of STM/RTM transit passes;
• An impressive health plan and a 24/7 virtual clinic;
• Group RRSP with employer contribution, internal referral bonuses, and a bonus program.