As a Game Designer, you will design, tweak, and optimize the player experience. Your analytical skills, player insight, and creativity help craft in- and out-of-game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to create and iterate player-focused designs that will delight millions around the world.
As a
Senior Game Designer on Riftbound, you'll report to a Game Design Manager and work directly with other designers. You will design and improve the gameplay experience through the lens of game rules and their interactions with content: cards. Primary among your responsibilities will be working with set designers to build, improve, and execute on new mechanics, templates, and rules, and you will also be expected to contribute to card design across many products, and support other efforts related to the Riftbound game experience.
Responsibilities: - Understand the relevant audiences for the game, and from this, calibrate your design expertise to reflect appropriate taste for these audiences
- Use data and sense-making to identify opportunities to improve the health of the game through cards
- Articulate and consider a scope and depth of possible solutions, including possible effects, and collaboratively reach the best solution
- Evaluate and improve rules across the game's design and execution, especially understanding the multiple ways the game will be played by players
- Improve existing design frameworks, our approaches to design, and create new ones
- Openly share work and seek feedback from other developers, while combine co-worker and player feedback to calibrate design direction
- Provide mentorship to more junior members of the design team
Required Qualifications: - 4+ years experience as a game designer and/or tabletop game rules manager
- Demonstrated experience working on rules for tabletop games
- Broad mechanics and content design ability
Desired Qualifications: - Knowledge of CCGs and their features
- Experience playing or judging in CCGs
- Experience working with or playing PvP strategy games
- Experience developing a competitive or multiplayer game
For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!
Our Perks: Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our
benefits pages for more information.
- (Los Angeles Only) Base salary range between $150,000.00 - $209,600.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.
