Top Game Designer Jobs

Designs, prototypes, ships, and tunes features for free-to-play mobile games. Owns gameplay experiences end to end, writes detailed specifications, prototypes directly in Unity, integrates live-service systems, develops agentic design workflows, analyzes telemetry, and collaborates with engineering and art teams to balance gameplay, difficulty, and monetization.

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.

Lead design for League of Legends’ ARAM: Mayhem mode by creating Augments, content, and systems that deliver engaging player experiences. Mentor game designers, guide design quality, conduct discovery and playtesting, and improve team processes for sustainable live-service content delivery. The role requires deep League player insight, set-based design expertise, and scripting experience in a shipped game.

Designs, prototypes, ships, and tunes features for free-to-play mobile games. Responsibilities include creating gameplay modes and events, writing detailed specifications, building prototypes in Unity, integrating live-service systems, orchestrating agentic workflows, analyzing telemetry, and balancing gameplay, difficulty, and monetization with engineering and art teams.

Designs, prototypes, implements, and tunes music-based gameplay systems and social experiences. Collaborates with audio, engineering, art, UX, and product teams to develop player-focused features, tools, progression, discovery, and creative music interactions. Uses design documentation, playtesting, data, and iterative prototyping to refine gameplay and maintain high-quality standards across development.

Designs and implements music-based gameplay systems and social experiences, including mechanics, progression, player expression, and creator tools. Collaborates with audio, engineering, art, UX, and product teams to establish vision, prototype features, tune gameplay, and incorporate analytics and playtest feedback. The role requires shipping multiple game titles and contributing to multiplayer, rhythm, music, and interactive entertainment experiences using Unreal Engine.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.