Staff Game Designer – World & Community

4 hours, 18 minutes ago
Full-time
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 based on player and guild actions.
  • Own an integrated guild system where leadership decisions affect content, events, and world state.
  • Create scalable content frameworks for new interactions, stories, and world changes.
  • Design narrative systems that tell stories through mechanics, events, and world state.
  • Partner with community, narrative, product, and live ops teams on cross-functional feature development.
  • Deliver clear design documentation and direction for engineering and art partners.
  • Translate player behavior, sentiment, and community feedback into world states 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.
  • Experience in narrative design, world building, or live content systems.
  • Experience designing games where player choice impacts the world (preferred).
  • Mobile-first design sensibility with experience building depth, social connection, and replayability in short sessions.
  • High agency and self-direction to own features from concept through live iteration.
  • Strong creative instincts for storytelling through mechanics and player interaction.
  • Deep empathy for players and communities, especially around social dynamics, leadership, and identity.
  • Clear, structured communication skills and cross-functional collaboration experience.
  • Bonus: 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 at an early-stage organization.
  • Work with a leadership team of game industry veterans and accomplished talent.
  • A culture that emphasizes diversity, equity, belonging, and inclusion.
  • The chance to build great games and connected communities.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer consideration without discrimination based on protected characteristics.

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