System Designer - W/M/NB

Ubisoft; Saint-Mandé; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit-sharing

Annual savings plan

Navigo pass reimbursement

Meal vouchers

Family health insurance

Parental leave

Gym in building

Job summary

Ubisoft in Saint-Mandé, France, seeks a System Designer to design and balance the economy and progression across game loops, quests, and events, implementing configuration parameters.

You will collaborate with content, level design, art, and gameplay programming to ensure clear design communication and high-quality results. Documentation and tool improvements are part of the role.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of game economy, progression, and reward systems.
• Experience designing or balancing gameplay or system-level features.
• Ability to use spreadsheets or tools for balancing and configuration.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary game development teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize the economic balancing of game loop, progression systems, and monetization, with configuration parameters.
• Balance and implement a range of system topics from progression and economy to items and events.
• Collaborate with content, level design, art and gameplay programming teams to ensure clear design communication.
• Create and maintain documentation for game loop and progression systems and designer tools.
• Revamp tools to configure and balance the game and improve designer workflows.
• Identify and fix buggy features and push for reworks to reach high quality.

Skills

Game economy

System balancing

Analytical thinking

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Spreadsheet tools

Tools

Excel

Job description

Company Description

Ubisoft is a global leader in video games, with teams around the world creating original and memorable experiences through franchises such as Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six, Just Dance, and many more. We believe that diverse perspectives enable both players and teams to thrive. If you are passionate about innovation and want to push the boundaries of entertainment, join us in creating the unknown!

Job Description

We are seeking a System Designer to join our team. Reporting to the Lead System Designer, your missions will be the following:

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible to design and optimize the economic balancing of all game loop & progression systems (sources, sinks, quests and events tasks objectives & rewards, and monetization), and to implement it with configuration parameters.
• Be responsible for a variety of system topics design, implementation (configuration), or balancing - from game loop systems (progression, economy, RPG & itemisation, time limited events, daily quests...) to gameplay systems (core gameplay, character classes, enemies and bosses, open world and game mode activities, difficulty tiers...).
• Collaborate with other dev team cells (content, level design, art & animation, gameplay programming) to ensure optimal communication of design info and achieve the results expected.
• Be responsible to create and maintain documentation for all the game loop and progression systems balancing, as well as designers tools (excel tables and simulators, etc).
• Revamp existing tools to configure and balance the game as necessary to improve them (eg designers excels for tracking & calculation of parameters to input).
• Constantly participate in finding solutions to fix buggy features and optimize systems, pushing for reworks when they are necessary to reach the expected quality.

Qualifications

Must Have

• Strong understanding of game economy, progression, and reward systems.
• Experience designing or balancing gameplay or system-level features.
• Ability to use spreadsheets or tools for balancing and configuration.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary game development teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with live game tuning, events, or monetization systems.
• Familiarity with RPG systems, itemisation, or open-world game design.

Additional Information

Ubisoft Benefits

• Profit-sharing and an annual company savings plan. 25 days of paid vacation + 12 additional RTT days.
• 50% reimbursement of your Navigo pass, meal vouchers (€9/day), health insurance for you and your family, as well as many additional Ubisoft benefits.
• 20 weeks of maternity leave, 7 weeks of paternity/co-parental leave.
• Our brand-new offices are located in Saint-Mandé (Metro line 1, Saint-Mandé station). A gym is available in the building.

Recruitment Process

• [45 min; remote] - Interview with a Talent Acquisition Specialist
• [60 min; remote] - Interview with the hiring manager
• Assessment : Role related evaluation
• [60 min; remote] - Interview with a key stakeholder

Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of gender, background, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability, or age. Ubisoft is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of its player community.