Senior Game Designer

Coffee Stain North is seeking a Senior Game Designer with 4-6 years of experience, including at least one full project cycle. The role involves hands-on work in Unreal Engine and Blueprint, feature implementation, content ideation, issue resolution, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The ideal candidate will drive ideas from concept to detailed design, create prototypes, ensure feature coherence, and contribute to a player-centric design philosophy within a small, ambitious team in Stockholm, working on games like Goat Simulator 3.

Must Have

• About four to six years of experience in a game designer role
• Been part of at least one full project cycle
• Work experience with Unreal Engine and Blueprint visual scripting
• Fluent in English, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to foster a collaborative environment with a focus on ideas and solutions
• Identify and implement improvements that enhance efficiency and productivity
• Create designs that prioritize the player's experience

Good to Have

• Creativity that shapes studio culture and games
• Mindset to strive toward more responsibility, ownership, and autonomy

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent benefits
• Wellness grant
• Paid time off to work out
• Creative Friday every fourth week
• Play games on the clock every fourth Friday
• Great parental benefits, including extra pay during parental leave
• Part of a wonderful team of colleagues working on an exciting high-profile project
• Hybrid setup (work from home two days per week)
• Newly renovated office in Kungsholmen, Fridhemsplan
• Ping-pong table
• Big lounge area where we hang out, watch movies, or play games together
• Giant goat statue

Are you a game designer that have been part of at least one full project cycle? Are you currently in an intermediate role aiming for senior, or have you recently stepped into a senior position? Would you like to work with a small but ambitious team where making an impact on the games we develop isn’t a perk, but a shared goal? Keep reading! We could be a great match as we are now looking for our new game designer!

About us

COFFEE STAIN NORTH is a small game developer that belongs to the Coffee Stain Group. Since the company was founded in 2013, we have grown to 30 employees and are now open to adding a couple of new friends!

Goat Simulator 3 is a third-person sandbox adventure developed by Coffee Stain North in which the player can live out their wildest dreams... as a goat. Released in 2022, this open-world sandbox game takes the chaotic spirit of the original to new heights and offers expanded multiplayer support, a larger and more detailed environment, and even more absurd physics-driven gameplay. Players can explore the island of San Angora solo or with friends, wreaking havoc as a goat (or one of many unlockable characters) through a wide range of quests, mini-games, and bizarre encounters.

Understanding games like Goat Simulator 3 means appreciating the fine line between "broken" and "brilliant." If that sounds like your kind of energy, come and get to know our herd!

The role

As Designer at CSN, you will work hands on in engine, build and implement features/content, be part of content ideation, fix issues, as well as support collaboration between disciplines.

You will:

• Carry ideas from conceptualization through to detailed design.
• Create prototypes and make final implementations for gameplay mechanics and objectives.
• Ensure that features developed by the design team are coherent with other game systems and the overall game vision.
• Help with organizing cross-disciplinary strike-teams to shape and deliver content for the game.

Your background

To succeed in the role, we believe that you have about four to six years of experience in a game designer role and have been part of at least one full project cycle. For us it isn’t the current title you have that matters, but the experience you’ve gained by doing the work - collaborating, building, and shipping games.

We work in Unreal Engine and Blueprint visual scripting, and prior work experience with these tools is a requirement.

To enjoy this role, we see that you are a person who can be part of fostering a collaborative environment with a focus on ideas and solutions. Your previous experience enables you to identify and implement improvements that enhance efficiency and productivity, all with the end goal of creating designs that prioritize the player's experience.

At CSN we have employees from different parts of the world, and it’s therefore mandatory to be fluent in English, both verbally and in writing.

Lastly, we believe we can do even better as a team when your creativity shapes not only your own work but also our studio culture and our games. We actively work to empower our employees by helping everyone strive toward more responsibility, ownership, and autonomy. You will be an important part of this, and it’s therefor crucial to us that you have the same mindset.

Perks of working at Coffee Stain

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that go beyond the usual payments to your pension fund and insurances.

• We believe that a healthy body leads to a healthy mind, so on top of the wellness grant you get some paid time off to work out. Did we mention there are several gyms right beside our office.
• Every fourth week it’s creative Friday which lets your inner passion blossom.
• To have fun together and get inspired, we play games on the clock every fourth Friday.
• We also have great parental benefits, including extra pay on top of what you get from the social insurance agency during your parental leave.
• And, of course, you will be part of a wonderful team of colleagues working on an exciting high-profile project.

Practical info

The position is permanent, full-time, 40 hours per week. We have a hybrid setup and offer the possibility of working from home two days per week. Our office is newly renovated, and located in Kungsholmen, Fridhemsplan. We have, among other things, a ping-pong table, a big lounge area where we hang out, watch movies, or play games together, and last but not least – a giant goat statue (what more do you need?).

Apart from us, the Coffee Stain Group consists of a myriad of successful studios, among them COFFEE STAIN STUDIOS (Sanctum and Satisfactory), Ghost Ship Games (Deep Rock Galactic), Tuxedo Labs (Teardown) and COFFEE STAIN PUBLISHING who work with close partners like Iron Gate (Valheim), to name a few.

Your application

If you are interested, please apply no later than 30th of January! Due to GDPR, we can’t accept applications through email. If you have any questions regarding the role, please reach out to Maria Sjöman, HR, maria.sjoman@coffeestain.com.