Senior Game Designer, Combat

About the role

We are seeking a creative and experienced Senior Game Designer to join our team and help shape a top-tier third-person action RPG experience featuring a high-profile IP. This full-time, remote position offers an opportunity to join the Champion Design team, creating memorable, authentic, and mechanically distinct playable Champions that capture the fantasy of iconic characters while delivering engaging moment-to-moment gameplay.

Responsibilities

Character and Ability Design

• Design, prototype, and tune unique Champion kits that capture the fantasy of iconic characters.
• Create engaging Champion abilities while balancing damage, cooldowns, and combat pacing to deliver satisfying moment-to-moment gameplay.
• Design Champion gameplay loops that are distinct, intuitive, and fun to master.

Champion Progression & Balance

• Design Champion progression through skill trees, upgrades, and progression systems.
• Collaborate with combat, progression, and systems designers to ensure Champions integrate cleanly with the game's combat, progression, and team-building systems.
• Iterate on Champion gameplay using playtest feedback and data.

Champion Feel & Presentation

• Partner with Animation, VFX, Audio, and Engineering to deliver responsive, impactful abilities.
• Ensure Champion gameplay authentically represents each character's personality, combat style, and fantasy.
• Review implementation quality and provide feedback to maintain a high gameplay polish bar.

Cross-Discipline Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Animation, VFX, Audio, Art, Narrative, and Production throughout development.
• Create and maintain Champion design documentation.
• Own Champion designs from concept through implementation, iterating based on playtests and cross-disciplinary feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in combat design, character design, or gameplay design roles in the game industry.
• Passion for designing memorable playable characters and creating responsive, satisfying, and balanced combat experiences.
• Strong documentation skills with the ability to produce both detailed design specifications and executive-friendly summaries.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a deep understanding of third-person combat design, character progression, game feel, and player engagement.
• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across design, animation, art, VFX, audio, engineering, and production teams.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience designing third-person action combat for action RPGs, character-action games, or hero shooters.
• Proficiency in Unity and experience working with gameplay scripting tools.
• Familiarity with combat animation workflows and gameplay implementation.
• Understanding of character progression, balance, and long-term progression systems.
• Experience collaborating with licensors or working on established IPs.
• Strong documentation skills and familiarity with common game development tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Git, and Perforce.

Pay

Salary range: $100,000 - 140,000 USD

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (used responsibly and subject to business needs)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Fully remote work