Lead Game Designer - Remote PvPvE Stealth-Action

Comunidade Metodista; Concord (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Experience with live services

Immersive sim design experience

Stealth game design experience

PvPvE game design experience

Closer/negotiation experience

Job summary

OtherSide Entertainment in Concord, CA, is seeking a Lead Game Designer to guide the design team for Thick as Thieves, a stealth-action multiplayer PvPvE title. The role requires hands-on Unreal Engine work, strong leadership, and a track record of shipping multiplayer games on PC/console.

You will own the GDD, mentor designers, coordinate with production, and ensure player-centric design while balancing prototyping and live operations. Travel to events will be involved.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a game designer with at least one title developed full-cycle in a lead role.
• Recent experience, within the past 3 years, in a lead designer role on a successfully released multiplayer PC or console game.
• Unreal 5 experience at an implementation level.
• Prior experience managing multiple direct reports, design processes, and information repositories.
• Experience shipping multiple titles, including on PC and console.

Responsibilities

• Own the GDD for the game, including managing team ownership of respective areas.
• Manage a team of experienced designers with mentoring and workload management.
• Represent the game and champion the player experience and innovative solutions.
• Coordinate with production to roadmap future development and live operations.
• Identify needs and risks, address design/staffing concerns proactively.
• Participate in prototype and testing to prove design concepts.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Community, QA, and Customer Service to incorporate player feedback.
• Prepare milestone deliverables, presentations, and overviews.

Skills

Team leadership

Gameplay design

Balancing gameplay

Cross-functional collaboration

Player experience

Tools

Unreal Engine

Job description

OtherSide Entertainment in Concord, CA, is seeking a Lead Game Designer to guide the design team for Thick as Thieves, a stealth-action multiplayer PvPvE title. The role requires hands-on Unreal Engine work, strong leadership, and a track record of shipping multiplayer games on PC/console.

You will own the GDD, mentor designers, coordinate with production, and ensure player-centric design while balancing prototyping and live operations. Travel to events will be involved.