Principal Game Designer
Fortis Games
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Define and uphold the design vision, ensuring systems and features support a meaningful, player-centric experience.
- Drive discovery and exploration efforts, helping the team identify opportunities that deepen emotional investment and connection.
- Partner with leadership to align design direction with product goals and long-term strategy.
- Provide structure and clarity as the project navigates open-ended or ambiguous problem spaces.
- Mentor designers, elevate craft quality, and foster a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and thoughtful experimentation.
- Communicate insights, patterns, and design learnings that strengthen decision-making across the project.
Requirements
- A holistic understanding of systems design and how player motivations, psychology, and behaviors influence long-term engagement while still having a sense of long-term progression.
- Strong ability to think from first principles and explore new ways for players to feel connected and invested.
- Skill in navigating ambiguity, defining problems, and driving alignment in complex design spaces.
- Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, art, and production.
- Ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable design direction and iterative improvements.
- Clear, structured communication that makes abstract ideas understandable and actionable.
- A track record of mentoring designers and elevating design quality across a team.
- A naturally curious mindset and a drive to stay current with evolving player expectations, design trends, and opportunities in the market.
Benefits
- We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community
- We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth.
- Build and grow with a seasoned team of accomplished talent who have left an impactful mark in their disciplines, both in and out of gaming.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
systems designdesign directioniterative improvementsqualitative insightsquantitative insights
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationcuriosityproblem-solvingnavigating ambiguity