Technical Game Designer

In this role, you can expect to:

• Champion the Game’s Vision 
• Understand and collaborate with the team and other designers to expand and refine the vision with further details.
• Advocate and communicate the game's vision to the team members and other stakeholders.


• Implement Designs and Content through Data Entry: 
• Execute  game balance through entering game data (CSV, XLS, etc…)
• Create characters by connecting art, design and data directly in the engine. 
• Collaborate to find the best systems for entering and managing data for the game.


• Develop Documents and Identify System Needs:
• Create design documents that outline the game's mechanics, systems, and features.
• Gather reference from other comparable games to influence feature and content design.
• Create simple and rough mock-ups to illustrate ideas visually.
• Design characters, dungeons and other content to meet the game’s needs.
• Identify and define the technical requirements and system needs to deliver the desired game experience.


• Design Rules, Parameters, and Game Systems:
• Define the rules and parameters for in-game features and systems.
• Implement and fine-tune game systems, economies, and progression lines.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• 2+ years of experience designing systems, characters, and/or economies on at least one shipped title
• Experience working with Unity 3D or Unreal
• Experience with spreadsheets, csv, and other forms of data entry. 
• Intellectual curiosity and logical thinking
• Rock-solid organizational and project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Bonus if you have raw technical skills including scripting experience and/or strong math skills
• A hunger for new, different, and exciting design challenges

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Ourbenefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!
• Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office. We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong connections.