Senior Systems Game Designer

E1 Consulting

Senior Systems Game Designer designing innovative gameplay systems for an AI-powered storytelling platform. Collaborating across teams to build emotionally engaging player experiences.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help define short/med/long-term gameplay loops, reward structures, and core game systems
Design, prototype, and implement a wide range of game systems: creative tools, progression systems, social play, crafting, and economy loops
Translate goals into specs, wireframes, UX flows, and playable concepts
Partner effectively with PMs and collaborate cross-functionally to ship elegant, expressive features that support our unique game model
Infuse systems with personality and narrative hooks to support emergent storytelling
Design with player motivation and autonomy in mind—using research frameworks like PENS/SDT

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years experience designing features and systems in leading mobile free-to-play games
Strong background in strategy, life sim, sandbox, or creativity games
AI-curious or AI-fluent : excited to explore generative tools and how they empower players
Expertise in at least one of: feature design, progression, economy, crafting, or UGC systems
Ability to think visually—comfortable wire-framing, prototyping, and communicating in flows and mockups
Track record of translating high-level ideas into features that ship, perform, and evolve
Creative sensibility: you think in tone, story, mood, and expression—not just mechanics
Experience collaborating with engineers and product managers to tune, test, and deliver
Startup-ready: adaptable, fast, deeply collaborative, and outcome-driven

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employees can work remotely

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Hard Skills & Tools

game designfeature designprogression systemseconomy systemscrafting systemsUGC systemswireframingprototypingUX designgame systems implementation

Soft Skills

collaborationcreativityvisual thinkingcommunicationadaptabilityoutcome-drivenstrategic thinkingplayer motivationnarrative designemergent storytelling