Technical Game Designer

Kabam; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gaming studio in Vancouver is seeking a Technical Game Designer for an unannounced project. This full-time role will focus on designing technical systems and economies for a free-to-play game. Candidates should have at least 2 years of experience in game design and familiarity with Unity or Unreal. The role offers a range of benefits, a collaborative work environment, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Apply now to be part of a team that creates exceptional gaming experiences.

Benefits

Extended Health Coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts

RRSP Matching

PTO and Parental Leave

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Learning and growth

Hybrid Work

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience designing systems, characters, and/or economies on at least one shipped title.
• Intellectual curiosity and logical thinking.
• Rock-solid organizational skills to juggle multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Champion the Game’s Vision and collaborate with team members.
• Implement designs and content through data entry.
• Create design documents outlining game mechanics and systems.

Skills

Designing systems

Character design

Economy design

Project management

Organizational skills

Tools

Unity 3D

Unreal

Spreadsheets

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.

We are looking for a Technical Game Designer for an unannounced project with a large IP partner. This is a F2P casual game and this role will focus on technical systems design and economy design, but may also touch on content design, character design, and more. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, self-motivated, and an excellent communicator who can effortlessly move between high and low-level problems. You have an inherent desire to understand players and to represent them in our games.

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:

• Champion the Game’s Vision
• Understand and collaborate with the team and other designers to expand and refine the vision with further details.
• Advocate and communicate the game's vision to the team members and other stakeholders.
• Implement Designs and Content through Data Entry:
• Execute game balance through entering game data (CSV, XLS, etc…)
• Create characters by connecting art, design and data directly in the engine.
• Collaborate to find the best systems for entering and managing data for the game.
• Develop Documents and Identify System Needs:
• Create design documents that outline the game's mechanics, systems, and features.
• Gather reference from other comparable games to influence feature and content design.
• Create simple and rough mock-ups to illustrate ideas visually.
• Design characters, dungeons and other content to meet the game’s needs.
• 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.

To be successful in this role, your background includes:

• 2+ years of experience designing systems, characters, and/or economies on at least one shipped title
• Experience working with Unity 3D or Unreal
• Experience with spreadsheets, csv, and other forms of data entry.
• 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 and/or strong math skills
• A hunger for new, different, and exciting design challenges

Benefits and Perks

• 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.
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts.
• Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office.

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!

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.