Principal Game Designer

The AES Group is a premier technology staffing and services company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years. They are seeking a Principal Game Designer to solve high-level engagement challenges within a major live-service multiplayer ecosystem, focusing on evolving engagement structures and inventing new systems to enhance player experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design and craft meaningful player goals that build exposure, experience, and mastery of both new and existing mechanics, while reinforcing world immersion
• Lead innovation for engagement features, including systems, progression, and rewards, ensuring alignment with key engagement metrics and broader systemic frameworks
• Communicate a clear, compelling player experience vision across multiple internal teams, enabling alignment and high-quality execution across disciplines
• Partner with product management, marketing, and adjacent teams to support player satisfaction, ecosystem health, and growth initiatives tied to major activations
• Drive a collaborative, iterative live design approach: prototype quickly, ship improvements rapidly, learn from data and feedback, and refine continuously
• Own decisions in fast-changing environments by setting direction, gaining alignment, and carrying the vision through implementation and iteration