Senior Designer

About the Role

Ghost Story Games is seeking a talented remote Senior Designer to join us on Judas, a highly anticipated game led by Ken Levine. This role involves primary ownership for the design, prototyping, and fostering of core gameplay systems, including player mechanics, world simulation, and AI. You'll lead collaborative sub-teams, author design documentation, and ensure balance across gameplay systems.

Responsibilities

• Take primary ownership for the design, prototyping, and fostering of one or more core gameplay systems.
• Lead, coordinate, and participate in interdisciplinary sub-teams to implement and balance gameplay features from initial design to final polish.
• Author, revise, and provide feedback on internal design documentation, including feature specifications and implementation guides.
• Collaborate with the design team to incorporate systems into level gameplay and maintain overall balance between multiple gameplay systems.
• Continually iterate, balance, and tune features and gameplay based on feedback from design leads, QA, and playtesting.

Requirements

• 10+ years of design experience on PC or console games in a systems design capacity.
• Experience working on projects throughout the entire production cycle, from concepting through ship.
• Strong skills in design/scripting (Unreal 4 experience preferred).
• Ability to work independently, diagnose and solve problems, work within a schedule, and deliver effectively to deadlines.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with highly systemic games with procedural elements.
• Experience with design for shooters, immersive sims, and/or action RPGs.
• Experience with Perforce or similar source control solutions.

Pay

The pay range for this position in Massachusetts at the start of employment is expected to be between $107,100 and $158,520 per year. Base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on individualized factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Additional Information

When applying, please watch the GDC talk by Ken Levine: Narrative. Ghost Story Games does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps. All official communication will be through ghoststorygames.com email addresses. Report any concerns to Careers@ghoststorygames.com.

Ghost Story Games is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected trait.