Senior Manager, Game Design - Twilight Towers (Soft Launch)

3 weeks ago
Lead
Product Management
Fortis Games

Fortis Games

Fortis Games focuses on developing engaging and meaningful gaming experiences that foster collaboration, challenge players intellectually, and build strong community connections.

Internet Software & Services
251-1K

Description

  • Own live-ops and content systems for Twilight Towers, including event design, content frameworks, progression-facing features, tuning, and iteration.
  • Lead and manage a sub-team of designers through coaching, mentoring, and clear expectations.
  • Translate high-level product and business goals into implementable design specifications.
  • Review design work, provide concrete feedback, and maintain the quality bar for the ownership area.
  • Coordinate cross-discipline dependencies such as asset needs, scope boundaries, and production timing.
  • Analyze player data, KPIs, and feedback to inform live-game decisions and rapid design iteration.
  • Partner with Product and Analytics to improve live-game systems and outcomes.
  • Build and share expertise in mobile free-to-play best practices, live-ops excellence, and market trends.
  • Guide work from concept through implementation and live iteration.
  • Set direction, prioritize trade-offs, and move initiatives forward with production fluency.

Requirements

  • Proven experience owning live-ops or content systems in a mobile game-as-a-service environment.
  • Strong applied design judgment across systems, content, and experiential design, with depth in at least one area.
  • Comfort designing from first principles with a working understanding of player psychology, economies, progression, and retention mechanics.
  • Ability to own and deliver scoped areas of a game independently without constant oversight.
  • Demonstrated people leadership experience managing, coaching, and developing junior or mid-level designers.
  • Production fluency and the ability to translate design intent into clear inputs for engineering, art, and production.
  • Clear communication and decision-making skills with the confidence to set direction and prioritize trade-offs.
  • Strong understanding of mobile free-to-play, live-ops cadence, and contemporary market best practices.
  • Experience with merge, tower defense, or adjacent genres is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to have a big impact on the products and overall direction of an early-stage game studio.
  • Work on Twilight Towers as it scales toward global launch.
  • Collaborate with a seasoned leadership team of game industry veterans.
  • Join a culture that emphasizes diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusivity.
  • Be part of an environment that supports growth and cross-functional impact.

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