Systems Designer (Game Design)

TL;DR

Systems Designer (Gamedev): Building progression and economy-related game features on a new game project with an accent on designing and prototyping the features. Focus on creating the high-level scripting and content required to realize them in-game fully.

Location: Vancouver, Canada

Salary: $107,812—$158,124 CAD

Company

hirify.global spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally and has been making award-winning games and engine technology for over 25 years.

What you will do

• Design, prototype, and collaborate with other Designers and project leadership to ensure systems deliver the desired player experience and achieve project goals.
• Communicate the vision for these features to developers across multiple disciplines, and ensure they have the information needed to implement them quickly and effectively.
• Solicit and integrate feedback from across the team, ensuring the delivery of the best version of the systems to players.
• Create the scripting/data/content required by those systems, iterating from early prototypes to final shippable quality.
• Expand and iterate on those systems once they’re in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players over the long term.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping titles as a Systems Designer, working on progression, economy, and/or engagement features and content.
• Experience working on live-service multiplayer environments is preferred.
• Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of progression and goal setting on play.
• Strong interest in game progression and economies, and an understanding of what makes them work.
• Able to react quickly to changing project needs, drive decisions, and then own that vision.
• You’re player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative; These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% paid benefits for both employees and dependents.
• Coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
• EAP (employee assistance program) and a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.