Lead Game Designer — Remote, Data-Driven Vision & Mentorship

Game District; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Game District is seeking a Lead Game Designer for a fully remote role. You will own the design vision and quality bar across our games, building and mentoring a multidisciplinary design team that delivers high-quality, data-informed experiences.

The role emphasizes a product-focused leadership approach with a strong overlap requirement for daily collaboration. You will drive A/B testing, design R&D, and analytics to inform decisions.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in mobile F2P game design and meaningful time leading or mentoring designers.
• Shipped live products or major updates with strong design documentation and tuning plans.
• Strong systems design fundamentals across gameplay, retention, progression, economy, monetization, LiveOps.
• A/B testing ownership: hypotheses, test design, analysis, and decision-making.
• Comfortable with product analytics dashboards to drive design decisions.
• Very strong English (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Own the studio-wide design vision and guide designers at a high level.
• Set and maintain the design quality bar across docs, sheets, A/B tests, and playtesting protocols.
• Lead the design of major systems: core loop, progression, economy, monetization, and LiveOps.
• Hire, onboard, and mentor designers toward multidisciplinary specialization.
• Run weekly 1:1s with direct reports and build successor capability.
• Co-own A/B test and feature-prioritization with Game Leads.
• Lead R&D in design tools, data pipelines, dashboards, and predictive modelling.
• Involve the studio in frequent playtesting and feed notes into design reviews.
• Communicate status, risks, and next steps to leadership.

Skills

Design leadership

Systems design

Data-driven

Mentoring

Remote collaboration

Tools

Coda

Miro

Asana

Slack

ByteBrew/Adjust

Job description

Game District is seeking a Lead Game Designer for a fully remote role. You will own the design vision and quality bar across our games, building and mentoring a multidisciplinary design team that delivers high-quality, data-informed experiences.

The role emphasizes a product-focused leadership approach with a strong overlap requirement for daily collaboration. You will drive A/B testing, design R&D, and analytics to inform decisions.