Senior Systems Designer — Multiplayer Economy (Unreal)

Game Companies; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and basicLife

14 paid holidays per calendar year

Paid vacation 15-25 days or time off

Up to 10 paid sick days

Paid parental and compassionate leave

Wellbeing programs

Family planning support through Maven

Commuter benefits

Reimbursements for fitness-related exp

Job summary

Game Makers in California is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to lead economy design and reward systems for our online multiplayer games. You will partner with cross-functional teams to shape growth, progression, and events, turning design intent into in-engine implementations.

You bring deep economy design experience and a strong track record delivering multiplayer features, balancing depth, player choice, and scalability while guiding teammates and production leadership.

Qualifications

• Senior Systems Designer with proven expertise in game economy design, reward systems, and complex balance for multiplayer titles.

Responsibilities

• Drive a small portfolio of complex features through initial creative input, stakeholder buy-in and alignment, consistent design reviews, and day-to-day execution.
• Respond quickly to feedback with stable in-engine updates and iterate rapidly.
• Provide design leadership within your feature area while mentoring others and sharing insights.
• Source ideas across the studio and reference other products to innovate within design challenges.
• Work cross-functionally to align on work, tradeoffs and dependencies, radiate changes, and set feature goals.
• Share best practices to improve the overall player experience.

Skills

Unreal Engine

Blueprint Visual Scripting

C++

C#

Job description

Game Makers in California is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to lead economy design and reward systems for our online multiplayer games. You will partner with cross-functional teams to shape growth, progression, and events, turning design intent into in-engine implementations.

You bring deep economy design experience and a strong track record delivering multiplayer features, balancing depth, player choice, and scalability while guiding teammates and production leadership.