Senior Game Designer

Room 8 Group

8+ Years | Remote | Full Time | 1 day ago

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Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to join our Game Development team as a key member responsible for shaping and refining the core gameplay experience. You will influence how players engage with combat, progression, encounters, exploration, and moment-to-moment decision-making, crafting systems that feel fair, engaging, and rewarding to master. We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in action-focused game design, who combines analytical thinking with creativity and naturally raises the team’s quality bar through collaboration, clear communication, and thoughtful design direction.

Must Have

8+ years of experience in Game Design, Systems Design, or Combat Design, with at least one shipped action RPG or souls-like title on PC or console
Proficiency with Unreal Engine 4/5, including Blueprint scripting, prototyping, and data-driven iteration
Strong understanding of core player systems (combat loops, abilities, progression, resource mechanics)
Experience designing and balancing enemies, encounters, boss experiences, or systemic interactions between player and AI
Familiarity with player progression, including upgrades, stats, unlocks, currencies, and reward pacing
Excellent communication and documentation skills — able to express design intent clearly across disciplines

Good to Have

Experience working on souls-like, character-action, or precision-driven action games
Familiarity with camera and lock-on systems, spatial design, or encounter telegraphing for third-person combat
Understanding of difficulty tuning, accessibility considerations, and scalable challenge design
Interest in leadership, with comfort mentoring designers and helping raise the team’s craft quality
Ability to teach internal best practices, run workshops, and provide actionable, structured feedback

Perks & Benefits

Competitive financial reward
Challenges to raise your XPs score working on the projects of the top global game dev publishers
A culture of diversity and inclusion to unite the most outstanding talents
Community of people who understand and share your passion for games

Job Description

Room 8 Group is an end-to-end strategic partner in external game development. Working across all platforms, we provide creative and technical expertise across game development, technology, art, trailers, and QA for AAA and AA games.

Our Game Development team provides comprehensive co-dev and full-cycle dev solutions, across all platforms. We’ve helped make some of the biggest games of the past decade, like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and III, and we work with dozens of the world’s biggest publishers and developers.

Through primarily organic growth, we are proudly independent, now home to around 1,100 creatives based in Europe, North America, and South America.

Cooperation: Remote

Team: Design

The next great challenge is coming:

We are seeking a candidate with a strong background in action-focused game design, who combines analytical thinking with creativity and naturally raises the team’s quality bar through collaboration, clear communication, and thoughtful design direction.

Superpowers you have:

8+ years of experience in Game Design, Systems Design, or Combat Design, with at least one shipped action RPG or souls-like title on PC or console;
Proficiency with Unreal Engine 4/5, including Blueprint scripting, prototyping, and data-driven iteration;
Strong understanding of core player systems (combat loops, abilities, progression, resource mechanics);
Experience designing and balancing enemies, encounters, boss experiences, or systemic interactions between player and AI;
Familiarity with player progression, including upgrades, stats, unlocks, currencies, and reward pacing;
Excellent communication and documentation skills — able to express design intent clearly across disciplines.

You’re a rockstar if you have:

Experience working on souls-like, character-action, or precision-driven action games;
Familiarity with camera and lock-on systems, spatial design, or encounter telegraphing for third-person combat;
Understanding of difficulty tuning, accessibility considerations, and scalable challenge design;
Interest in leadership, with comfort mentoring designers and helping raise the team’s craft quality;
Ability to teach internal best practices, run workshops, and provide actionable, structured feedback.

Becoming part of Room 8 Group, you will:

Design, implement, and iterate on core gameplay systems, ensuring they are cohesive, responsive, and aligned with the project’s goals;
Help define and maintain the game’s overall feel, covering responsiveness, pacing, clarity, and difficulty expectations;
Contribute to building and refining player progression, from early-game onboarding to late-game mastery;
Collaborate with Designers to ensure enemy behaviour, spaces, and player tools all work together;
Work cross-functionally with teams to prototype and evolve player and enemy interactions;
Author and iterate on prototypes, encounters, abilities, and systemic interactions that reinforce player agency and challenge;
Lead or contribute to playtests, analyzing results and guiding tuning passes to maintain fairness and learning curves;
Produce and support design documentation.

Join the team of inspiring game dev professionals, and get even more:

Competitive financial reward (yes, we are fair enough);
Challenges to raise your XPs score working on the projects of the top global game dev publishers;
A culture of diversity and inclusion to unite the most outstanding talents;
Community of people who understand and share your passion for games.

Together we will bring games to the next level. Exactly with you.

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