Principal Game Designer Jobs

Demiurge Studios is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Principal Game Designer to join our growing team. This is a unique opportunity to maximize your extensive game design experience and proven leadership skills to conceive and shape the next great Demiurge game.

As a Principal Game Designer, you will partner with product leadership to define the vision of the game and collaborate with a talented cross-functional team to build it! You can pinpoint the key characteristics necessary for a game’s success and relentlessly prioritize to make them shine. If your passion is to design a great game that will engage, surprise, and delight other players for years to come, then this opportunity is for you!

Remote work is available for this role. Relocation assistance may also be available.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with an agile, cross-functional team to prototype and iterate on game mechanics and systems that ensure a thrilling player experience.
• Exemplify proven game design practices to the team and mentor designers to help them level up.
• Play a key role in defining, maintaining, and communicating the creative vision of the game through all development phases by providing both high-level direction and hands-on design implementation.
• Develop new concepts into well-defined design pillars and innovative game designs that deliver on the core player fantasy.
• Partner with the product team to identify new market opportunities and pitch game concepts to studio leadership.
• Solve creative & technical challenges that require navigating ambiguity and production constraints.

Qualifications:

• Experience mentoring other game designers.
• Demonstrable experience as a principal or lead designer on at least one shipped multiplayer AAA game. Please submit a portfolio link that showcases your experience!
• 10+ years of experience designing & developing 3rd or first-person multiplayer action games, with a deep understanding of player motivations, mechanics, and behaviors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey designs clearly.
• Proactive and self-motivated with the ability to deliver high-quality designs on time.
• Hands-on experience rapidly prototyping gameplay with a AAA game engine (preferably experience using Unreal/Blueprints).

About us:

Headquartered in Boston, MA at Demiurge you will find a studio with an amazing, collaborative culture and a deep respect for art in all our games. With over 20 years of game development expertise and teams all over North America our commitment to sane and sustainable development is well known in the game community. We also provide co-development services to larger, best-in-industry game companies. In this capacity, Demiurge has worked with some of the industry’s biggest hitters on exciting projects including Marvel Puzzle Quest, Teamfight Tactics, and Hearthstone Battlegrounds to name a few. This is an exciting time to join Demiurge as we are developing our own independent titles as well. With tons of challenges and opportunities ahead we are always looking for great talent! If you are looking for an exciting, creative, and collaborative studio come join us on Demiurge’s next journey!

DEI Statement:

At Demiurge, we celebrate our differences and know that diverse perspectives empower us to build a stronger company and better games.

We work hard to create an equitable, safe and accessible work environment where all Demiurgers are empowered to be themselves and do their best work regardless of race, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion or physical or mental ability.

We thrive on self-reflection, healthy debate, and mindful listening. We respect each other’s opinions and seek new ideas.

We denounce hate, discrimination and racism in all forms.

What Demiurge offers:

401K Match

Flexible work environment (remote, hybrid, or office: you choose!)

Generous PTO program including vacation days, sick days, and holidays. Earn-as-you-go plan that rolls over year to year, offering flexibility as well as the last week of December the studio closes to recharge

Medical benefits with PPO options that start on your first day of employment

Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) – Let us help you with your medical deductible!

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (HC & DC FSA)

Commuter Reimbursement Program (Commuter FSA)

Tuition reimbursement promoting lifelong learning

Referral bonuses

Bonus plan

So. Many. Games. – Access to our huge game library!

As well as a state of the art Boston studio with in office perks:

Free snacks and drinks!

Demi-Lunch Tuesday – Lunch is on us!

Game Night Food

Ping Pong!

Step Mania! Get your dance on!

Demiurge Studios is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, or Veteran status. Demiurge Studios also makes workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities or special needs.

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