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Lead Designer

San Mateo, California💼 Full-time💰 $127,500–$127,500🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a feature team to shape the future of online multiplayer gaming, aligning the team on gameplay objectives and ensuring high-rigor design execution.

Role type

Senior Lead Game Designer (Multiplayer)

Builds

Online multiplayer games with live-service systems

Domain

Video Games / Multiplayer / Live-Service

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Game design, team leadership, mechanics and systems design, live-service game development, multiplayer feature design, theory-crafting, cross-functional collaboration, design execution standards, tradeoff management, player behavior modeling, Unreal Engine, Blueprint visual scripting

Preferred skills

Programming (C++, C#), deep understanding of UI/Art/Engineering/Audio/VFX integration

Responsibilities

Lead a feature team by setting scope, approach, and design objectives; manage other designers by providing support, growth, and actionable feedback; define and set sprint and milestone objectives; evaluate and diagnose work to find improvements; work cross-functionally to communicate and align on work and dependencies; maintain and enforce good executional standards for scripting and design execution

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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