Senior Systems Designer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Systems Designer (Gamedev): Owning the development of key progression, economy, and gameplay balance-related features for a new game project with an accent on designing, documenting, prototyping, and iterating on these systems. Focus on soliciting and integrating feedback from across the team on your own initiative, ensuring we’re continually delivering a fun and fresh experience to our players.

Location: Onsite in Vancouver, Canada

Salary: $139,061 — $203,957 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

• Work in close collaboration with project leads & directors to shape and evolve various complex design systems that support the engagement, gameplay, and creative vision of the project.
• Design, document, prototype, and iterate on these systems, working with a team of developers across multiple disciplines, and oversee their successful implementation from start to finish.
• Get hands on creating the scripting, data, and content required by those systems, diving into the engine and leveraging other tools.
• Be responsible for soliciting and integrating feedback from across the team on your own initiative, ensuring we’re continually delivering a fun and fresh experience to our players.
• Expand and iterate on those systems once they’re in the live environment, ensuring the game remains exciting and engaging to players.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience shipping titles as a Systems Designer, working on progression, economy, gameplay system, and gameplay balance features and content.
• Experience working on live-service multiplayer environments and ability to get your hands dirty in Unreal Engine is preferred, bonus points for mobile game experience.
• 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.
• Ability to take initiative and react quickly to changing project needs, drive decisions, then owning the outcome and vision.
• You’re player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative; These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Culture & Benefits

• Epic pays 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer 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.
• In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), Epic also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.