Principal Systems Designer (F2P Mobile Game)

Location: Canada or United States

Annual salary: $144,200–$215,000 USD for candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA.

Company

hirify.global is a global video game and interactive entertainment company developing, publishing, and operating mobile, web, PC, and console games.

What you will do

• Design and implement progression, combat scaling, economy, and rewards systems from initial definition through launch.
• Align RPG progression, combat abilities, scaling, and content difficulty with gameplay designers.
• Build models, simulations, spreadsheets, loot tables, cost structures, XP curves, and stat-scaling tools.
• Implement, tune, and iterate on systems directly in Unity and supporting design tools.
• Create documentation and collaborate with engineering, production, and design partners on authoring and balancing pipelines.
• Use analytics and playtest feedback to evaluate performance, identify risks, and improve systems for future content.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience owning complex progression, economy, combat-adjacent, or related systems through development and launch or live operations.
• Strong technical skills with spreadsheets and system implementation in Unity, Unreal, a proprietary engine, or scripting and tools environments.
• Deep understanding of RPG progression, power curves, stat growth, gear or ability scaling, and combat difficulty.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, including judgment about data strengths and limitations.
• Experience taking systems from definition through implementation, tuning, and a shippable state.
• Ability to document ambiguous design problems and collaborate across engineering, production, gameplay, combat, and content disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience designing systems for F2P collector games.
• Experience with multiplayer action RPGs.
• Experience working with licensed IP.

Culture & Benefits

• Healthcare and retirement benefits, pet insurance, and equity and bonus eligibility.
• Paid holidays, paid hirify.global free days, and unlimited paid time off.
• Work with a global team developing and operating games for hundreds of millions of players.
• Access to a broad portfolio of mobile, web, PC, and console gaming experiences and proprietary technology.