Design Director
Blackbird Interactive
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$130,000 - CA$160,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide creative and strategic leadership on a large-scale science fiction game.
- Oversee the execution of gameplay vision across systems, narrative, and player experience, ensuring consistency, quality, and cohesion as the project moves from development through delivery.
- Guide the design organization, align teams around shared goals, and ensure that gameplay systems meaningfully support exploration, player agency, and long-term engagement.
- Emphasize leadership, clarity, and decision-making at scale, balancing creative ambition with production realities while empowering design teams to do their best work.
Requirements
- At least 15 years of experience contributing to game development, including at least 10 in a design leadership or senior design role supporting team execution.
- Proven experience shipping large-scale, systems-driven games, ideally within the action or RPG space.
- Deep understanding of gameplay systems, player experience, and moment-to-moment game feel, with the ability to evaluate design quality at a holistic level.
- Demonstrated success leading and developing design teams, including mentoring leaders and guiding cross-disciplinary collaboration.
- Strong production awareness, with the ability to balance creative goals against technical constraints and schedules.
- Exceptional communication skills, with experience aligning diverse teams around shared design goals
Benefits
- four-day work week
- in-studio, remote within Canada, and hybrid work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
game developmentdesign leadershipgameplay systemsplayer experiencesystems-driven gamesaction gamesRPG gamesdesign quality evaluationcross-disciplinary collaborationproduction awareness
Soft Skills
leadershipdecision-makingmentoringcommunicationteam alignmentcreative ambitionclarityempowermentstrategic thinkingproblem-solving