Top Game Designer Jobs

Own end-to-end design for mobile casino, bingo, and social games, including core mechanics, bonus features, monetization, virtual economies, UX/UI, LiveOps, and seasonal content. Partner with math, engineering, and QA teams on RTP, volatility, documentation, and implementation. Analyze KPIs such as retention, ARPDAU, session length, and LTV to guide tuning and experiments. Use AI tools for prototyping, concept development, specifications, and research.

Lead design and implementation of large-scale game systems for a new mobile title. Write UX stories and design docs, prototype gameplay, create balancing models and tools, collaborate across disciplines, analyze live metrics to iterate systems, and evangelize game design best practices.

Designs and executes advanced red-on-green military wargames for U.S. Army training, experimentation, capability development, and operational analysis. Develops game mechanics, adjudication systems, adversary decision models, scenarios, and multi-domain operational environments using military doctrine, game theory, decision science, and simulation tools. Facilitates workshops and exercises, presents findings to senior stakeholders, and collaborates with military experts, data scientists, modelers, software teams, and AI developers.

Design and balance core gameplay mechanics, progression, and in-game economy to drive engagement and retention. Lead post-launch tuning using player metrics, run A/B tests, define difficulty tiers, collaborate with LiveOps, data analysts, UX/Art/Engineering, and document tuning frameworks and economic models.

Design and help build games addressing global issues; collaborate with CTO and core team to ideate, prototype, and implement game features. Contribute creatively as a partner, provide portfolio, manage time effectively, and optionally perform coding (Unity, C-like languages) or art (illustration, Photoshop/GIMP). Part-time (~20 hrs/week), unpaid initially with potential full-time/salary/equity after funding; remote work acceptable.

Own and lead major gameplay features for Fortnite from concept through launch. Design, prototype, and implement systems in Unreal Engine using Blueprint scripting, collaborate across disciplines, analyze playtest and player data, and guide iteration toward polished player experiences. The role requires strong multiplayer and live-service game design expertise, player empathy, sound design judgment, and the ability to mentor teammates while shaping broader gameplay direction.

Lead the game's design vision through pre-production: define gameplay systems, prototype in Unreal/Blueprints, lead a small design team, run playtests, iterate mechanics, collaborate cross-functionally, and scope features for production while mentoring designers.

As a Contract Game Designer, you will pitch original concepts, develop game designs, provide feedback, and collaborate on multiple projects while supporting playtesting and writing instructional materials.

Lead and refine game designs across single‑player and multiplayer, coordinate with directors and producers on scope and schedule, manage level creation, iterate through development and post‑release, balance gameplay, mentor designers, establish best practices, and drive process improvements.

As a Senior Game Designer, you will design competitive systems, conduct playtests, and collaborate with teams to optimize player experience in VALORANT.

The Game Designer will enhance the gameplay experience for Cofounder by designing intuitive mechanics, gameplay loops, and systems that engage users, making company management feel strategic and rewarding.

Design and implement playable level layouts: block environments, create architecture and composition, place objects, script progression in the game editor, produce level documentation, coordinate playtests and cross-discipline collaboration, and iterate on feedback. Provide portfolio/demo reel and may complete a design test.

Pitch, design, implement, and own enemy NPC archetypes. Collaborate with AI programmers, animators, artists, and designers to develop AI behaviors, locomotion, melee moves, and combat systems. Prototype, implement, tune, and balance gameplay; write documentation; run playtests and iterate; drive cross-discipline communication; mentor junior designers and meet project deadlines.

Prototype, implement, and own gameplay scenarios, narrative sequences, interactive objects, AI behaviors, and other mechanics. Collaborate with animation, programming, and art to produce assets and code, iterate on feedback with lead designers and directors.

Design and iterate game mechanics, progression, rewards, UX/UI, onboarding, and social experiences for Beast World. Create wireframes and prototypes, run playtests, partner with product, engineering, data, and external studios, and ensure games are engaging, fair, and polished for millions of users.

Prototype, implement, and own gameplay scenarios, narrative sequences, interactive objects, and AI behaviors using in-house tools and scripting. Collaborate with design, animation, programming, and art teams to prototype, tune, balance, and polish gameplay systems for production.

Designs enemies and NPC behaviors for a high-mobility multiplayer action game. Creates design specifications and technical documentation, collaborates with designers and engineers on scripting and behavior trees, analyzes player data and feedback to improve AI, coordinates dependencies with producers, and pitches new AI concepts to leadership.

Design and implement gameplay and technical systems, rapidly prototype features (camera, animation, controls, AI), improve level-editor and tooling, collaborate across design and engineering, support multiplayer and live-game operations, and enable the design team with polished interactions and pipelines.

Lead the design and implementation of intuitive, responsive game user interfaces and artwork. Create wireframes, prototypes, vector/icon assets, and optimized raster exports. Collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers, run user tests, ensure UI consistency across PC, consoles, and mobile, and influence overall UI art direction.

As the first designer at LeftLane, you will own design end-to-end, collaborate with the CEO & CTO, and interact with customers for feedback and implementation.