Senior Game Designer

Your Future at Tilting Point

• Utilize industry best practices to design, implement and balance major game systems, gameplay and content.
• Create clear and concise design documentation, including technical specs, diagrams, and spreadsheets, to effectively communicate design concepts and requirements to the external dev team.
• Analyze data and player feedback to identify opportunities for improvement, balance, and optimization in game mechanics, economy, and overall player experience.
• Stay informed about 4X games industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies to maintain a cutting-edge understanding of game design principles and techniques.
• Collaborate with engineers, UI/UX designers, and artists to deliver robust game systems on time and at exceptional quality.
• Contribute to and maintain design department resources and learnings through market research and application.
• Master one or more mobile game genres. Learn how competitors fail and succeed, and propose designs based on your learnings and the context of the project.
• Integrate with third party developers to create games from start to finish and through live operations (or insert yourself anywhere in between).
• Optimize development and live operations through data evaluation, design process or tool improvements.

What We Seek

• Business-minded game designers: Strong understanding of design principles and economics involved in free-to-play design and a sincere desire to succeed in the market.
• Holistic thinkers: Ability to both think at scale and evaluate the impact of their work on interconnected game systems and large populations of players.
• Empathy and curiosity: We need designers who will strive to understand our players and come up with creative solutions and hypotheses.
• Humility: Willingness to be wrong and learn to find multiple solutions to problems.
• Authenticity: Love for the type of IPs we work on.
• Reliability: Demonstrated ability to make and execute on long term commitments and earn trust of colleagues.
• Strong communication skills: Convey ideas effectively; verbally, visually and written.
• Toolbox: Experience with game engines, spreadsheets, systems documentation, and data analytics.
• Bonus: Scripting/Coding experience. Experience using YML, JSON, XML or similar markup languages.

Your XP & Skills

• 5y+ Experience in 4X games with success (daily revenue 100k+, Top 100 all games)
• Strong skills set in designing FTUE (seamless onboarding), feature and event design and data driven decision making
• You worked as a Game Designer, Systems Designer, Level Designer or Economy Designer on at least 2 live games, handling the design and release of at least 10 updates
• You have worked in Design positions on at least 2 different genres
• You have a broad understanding of all areas of game design and have expertise in at least one of them
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills
• Good judgment: you can take decisions despite ambiguity, thinking strategically and using data to inform your creative intuition
• Impact driven: you make your team better, you focus on results, you accomplish amazing amounts of meaningful work (as opposed to useless hours)
• Passionate: you inspire through your drive for excellence, you care deeply about our players and your colleagues, you are optimistic
• Creative: you find simple solutions to hard problems, you challenge the status quo, you create new features that generate better and stronger experiences

Nice to Have

• Affinity towards or familiar with Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra IP