Remote LiveOps Architect: Events & Social Systems

Escape Velocity Entertainment; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO allowance

Studio closure holidays

Private Medical & Dental Care

Private Mental Health scheme

Health & Wellbeing allowance

Discretionary Studio Bonus

Top-range home tech

Job summary

Escape Velocity Entertainment is seeking a principal-level game design lead for the Meta & Live Service team. This fully remote role reports to the Design Director and owns event and social systems design, while partnering on onboarding improvements post-launch.

You will drive end-to-end event design, from pacing and currencies to integration with the broader meta, and define telemetry-driven iteration based on player feedback across live title operations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in game design, including 4+ years designing for and operating a live-service title after launch.
• Demonstrated ownership of event systems, social systems, or both, on a title you supported live, not only specced.
• Fluency in progression and economy design. You can build and defend the model, not only describe the intent.
• A track record of designing systems that scale through templates and configuration rather than bespoke content per beat.
• Comfort influencing across Production, Engineering, UX, Narrative and Product without formal authority.
• Genuine use of telemetry and player feedback to iterate on live systems, including examples of things you changed because the data disagreed with you.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Design events: reusable, configurable formats that scale to meet audience needs.
• End-to-end event design: entry conditions, currencies, consumables, reward pacing, and how events integrate with the meta.
• Define configuration surfaces and tooling requirements to make running an event a config job rather than an engineering task.
• Set standards for event spec, instrumentation, review, iteration, and retirement.

Skills

LiveOps design

Event systems ownership

Social systems design

Onboarding design

Telemetry-driven design

Data-informed decisions

Communication skills

Cross-functional influence

Tools

Editor configuration

Telemetry tools

Job description

Escape Velocity Entertainment is seeking a principal-level game design lead for the Meta & Live Service team. This fully remote role reports to the Design Director and owns event and social systems design, while partnering on onboarding improvements post-launch.

You will drive end-to-end event design, from pacing and currencies to integration with the broader meta, and define telemetry-driven iteration based on player feedback across live title operations.