Game Designer

Kabam; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 76,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming company in Vancouver is seeking a passionate Game Designer to shape the gameplay experience. In this full-time role, you will collaborate with the design team, advocate for the game vision, and create detailed design documents that define in-game mechanics. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in game design with a minimum of 3 years' experience on shipped titles. The position offers a vibrant work culture and numerous employee benefits, including health coverage and flexible spending accounts.

Benefits

Extended Health Coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts

RRSP Matching

PTO and Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Telus Virtual Health

Learning and growth opportunities

Pay transparency

Volunteer days

Casual office environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience designing systems or characters on at least one shipped title.
• Rock-solid organizational and project management skills.
• A hunger for new design challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design the overall gameplay and mechanics of the game.
• Collaborate with the team to contribute on game vision.
• Create design documents outlining mechanics and systems.

Skills

Intellectual curiosity

Organizational skills

Analytical thinking

Scripting experience

Math skills

Project management

Spreadsheet skills

Education

Undergraduate degree or college diploma in a related field

Job description

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

Reporting to the Lead Game Designer, the key function of the Game Designer is to design the overall gameplay, mechanics, and player experience of a game. This position touches on systems, character, content, and economy game design while iterating on the design process and seeing how modifications can change how people play.

This role is a full-time, on-site position based 5 days a week at our Downtown Vancouver studio.

In this role, you can expect to:

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide Input on the Game's Vision and Champion It:
  • Collaborate with the team to contribute ideas and provide input on the overall vision of the game.
  • Advocate and communicate the game's vision to other team members.
• Develop Documents, Write Scripts, and Identify System Needs:
  • Create design documents that outline the game's mechanics, systems, and features.
  • Write scripts and narratives to support the game's story and gameplay elements.
  • Identify and define the technical requirements and system needs to deliver the desired game experience.
• Design Rules, Parameters, and Game Systems:
  • Define the rules and parameters for in-game features and systems.
  • Implement and fine-tune game systems, economies, and progression lines.
• Communicate Design Functionality and Vision:
  • Communicate the functionality and vision of the design to the development team.
  • Present design ideas and concepts to stakeholders for feedback and alignment.
• Level-Up Design Presence Studio-Wide:
  • Enhance the design presence across the studio by sharing knowledge, best practices, and mentorship.
  • Collaborate with other designers to improve design processes and workflows.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• Undergraduate degree or college diploma (or equivalent) in a related field
• 3+ years of experience designing systems, characters, and/or economies on at least one shipped title
• Intellectual curiosity and logical thinking
• Rock-solid organizational and project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
• Bonus if you have raw technical skills including; Scripting experience
• Strong math skills
• Spreadsheet wizardry
• A hunger for new, different, and exciting design challenges

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!

$76,000 - $95,000 a year

The typical hiring range listed above is specific to candidates located in Vancouver. The salary will be determined based on your knowledge, skills and competencies, and you’ll have room to grow after you join! If you’re interested in the position but your expectations don’t fully align with the provided range, we still encourage you to apply! Considerations may be made based on your experience level.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.