Staff Gameplay Designer – Social

teamLFG

Designing gameplay systems for a new multiplayer action game at teamLFG. Collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to enhance player engagement and expression in a social gameplay environment.

Posted 5/30/2026contractRemote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $76 - $115 per hourWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain the avatar movement and core sandbox systems that enable cooperative social gameplay and player expression, while building trust between players
Build the systems to allow for avatar customization, creating extensible opportunities for player investment and a progression economy, as well as player self expression and customization
Build compelling gameplay experiences through reusable sandbox mechanics, especially 3C (Character, Camera and Controls) design and implementation
Create endearing NPCs that improve IP quality, consistency, along with sandbox design principles
Work with audio, effects, and animation to clearly communicate gameplay affordances to players

Requirements

What you’ll need

Understanding of how modern multiplayer social games can leverage an intuitive and expressive action sandbox to create memories between players
Fluency for collaboration with designers, artists, programmers, audio professionals, quality assurance and producers to achieve a common goal, with adaptability for how to work in a flexible work environment
Broad T-shaped rapid prototyping skills, with enough multi-disciplinary knowledge to quickly stub out gameplay ideas to evaluate their potential
Strong technical scripting skills and understanding of how to structure game design tools to unlock player expression, content variety, and execution speed
Strong understanding of character motion and animation; momentum, timing, and their impact on player communication and tone
Proven ability to build alignment and productively own feature direction without sacrificing empathy and collaboration with team contributors
Ability to operate autonomously and handle ambiguity, including giving and receiving feedback despite that ambiguity
Ability to create plans and evaluate them for meeting the experiential needs of the players and markets
Outstanding oral and written communication skills
Demonstrated understanding of how systemically consistent, combinatoric game design can create player surprise and laughter

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

scriptinggame design toolscharacter motionanimationgameplay mechanicssandbox systemsavatar customization3C designprototypingmultiplayer game development

Soft Skills

collaborationadaptabilityempathycommunicationautonomyfeedbackplanningevaluationproblem-solvingteam alignment