Senior Game Designer – Contract

Job Description: • Create immersive, “in-world” interfaces that feel native to the narrative rather than overlaid on top of it. • Design and document complex gameplay loops that support narrative progression, player choice, and state-based outcomes • Shape how players receive information through visual, textual, and sensory cues — including state changes, progression signals, and emotional feedback. • Help define and curate guidelines for AI-generated assets (portraits, environments, landscapes), ensuring stylistic cohesion and narrative integrity. • Work closely with creative, design, and technical partners to ensure systems, visuals, and storytelling are deeply aligned. Requirements: • 5–8+ years of experience in game design, interactive narrative, or systems-driven visual design • Strong understanding of diegetic UI and immersive interface design • Proven experience designing complex systems, loops, and progression models • Exceptional visual sensibility paired with clear systems thinking • Comfort working with ambiguity and helping define new frameworks from scratch • Ability to document thinking clearly for cross-functional teams • Major Plus: TTRPG literacy (D&D, narrative tabletop systems, or similar) – Familiarity with branching narratives, player agency, and emergent storytelling is a big win. Benefits: • Flexible, Hybrid Work Environment • Great Compensation with Annual Reviews (Learn more about our Pay Philosophy) • 401(k) Matching with Immediate Vesting • Robust Medical, Vision, and Accident Insurance • Generous Paid Holidays and unlimited PTO • Sabbaticals • Monthly Wellbeing Stipend • Career Management and Leadership Training Apply tot his job