Staff Game Designer – World & Community

1 day, 8 hours 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

  • Lead the design of living-world systems that change in response to player and guild actions.
  • Own an integrated guild system where leadership decisions affect content, events, and world state.
  • Create scalable content frameworks for new interaction points, stories, and world changes.
  • Design how narrative and game systems work together to tell stories through mechanics and events.
  • Partner with community, narrative, product, and live ops teams to align gameplay and community influence.
  • Provide clear design documentation and direction for engineering and art partners.
  • Translate player behavior, sentiment, and community feedback into world states, story beats, and systemic changes.
  • Own features end-to-end from concept and prototyping through implementation, tuning, and live iteration.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional game design experience.
  • Strong systems design fundamentals and a holistic view of player experience.
  • Proven experience in narrative design, world building, or live content systems.
  • Experience creating depth, social connection, and replayability in short, repeatable mobile sessions.
  • High agency and self-direction with the ability to own features end-to-end.
  • Strong creative instincts for storytelling through mechanics, systems, and player interaction.
  • Deep empathy for players and communities and an understanding of social dynamics in shared worlds.
  • Clear, structured communication skills and experience collaborating cross-functionally.
  • Preferred experience in mobile games, live service development, ARGs, D&D or DM-style world building, or community-driven online worlds.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to have a big impact on the products and overall direction of an early-stage organization.
  • Work with a seasoned leadership team of game industry veterans.
  • Join a company focused on diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusive communities.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer consideration for all qualified applicants.

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