Senior Game Designer - MMO Sandbox: Live Ops & Systems

Jamefy; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Personalized career roadmap

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Xsolla, based in Los Angeles, is seeking a Game Designer to improve and expand complex gameplay systems for a hardcore medieval MMORPG. You will balance economies, progression, and crafting while shaping features through data and feedback.

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure feasibility and timely delivery in a live environment. The role requires strong systems thinking, documentation discipline, and collaboration with developers, QA, and production as we migrate to a new engine.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional game design experience, preferably multiplayer/MMO.
• Strong systems design, progression mechanics, and economy balancing.
• Experience with complex, interconnected gameplay systems.
• Ability to analyze and document gameplay systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable with data.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and improve gameplay mechanics and systems.
• Balance existing mechanics like progression, crafting, combat, economy.
• Design features based on feedback, data, and priorities.
• Prepare detailed design docs with specs and balance tables.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and production.
• Identify issues, inconsistencies, exploits, and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to player retention and onboarding improvements.
• Support seasonal gameplay, PvP and PvE balance.
• Evaluate features through playtesting and metrics.
• Assist during ongoing engine transition.

Skills

Game design

Systems design

Analytical skills

English communication

Independence

Tools

UE5

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Xsolla, based in Los Angeles, is seeking a Game Designer to improve and expand complex gameplay systems for a hardcore medieval MMORPG. You will balance economies, progression, and crafting while shaping features through data and feedback.

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure feasibility and timely delivery in a live environment. The role requires strong systems thinking, documentation discipline, and collaboration with developers, QA, and production as we migrate to a new engine.