Senior System Designer

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Ludia

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

💰 $1.5M Series A on 2007-04

Gaming • Media

Ludia is a mobile gaming company and a subsidiary of Jam City, Inc. , based in Montreal, Canada. The company is known for developing popular mobile games such as DC Heroes & Villains and Disney Wonderful Worlds. Ludia emphasizes creating engaging and immersive games and has been recognized as one of Montreal’s top employers. The company believes in the future of mobile gaming and invites users to join its vibrant community.

📋 Description

• As a Senior System Designer, you will report to the Lead designer and you will work directly with the team members, designers, artists, data scientists and developers. • Handle large parts of the game and oversee multiple game systems. • Design metagames, economies, gameplay and any other needed game systems from A to Z. • Foresee complex issues and resolve them before they happen. • Turn complexity into simple and fun player facing experiences by analyzing, abstracting and conceptualizing deep systems to reduce them to their essential. • Design with Fun, User Experience (UX) and product (KPIs) in mind. • Apply systemic thinking to creative processes and problem solving. • Create game systems from scratch, balance them and create your own tools when needed. • Use spreadsheets, projections, system prototyping, simulations, resource flows, flowcharts, game loops, progression curves and any other tools needed to design and communicate clear and functional game systems. • Use well established theoretical and industry best practices (e.g. Rational Game Design, Compulsion Loops, etc.). • Produce sustainable game design documentation to facilitate the integration of features and balancings to the game through any part of a game’s life-cycle. • Collaborate with other designers, creative owners, stakeholders and disciplines to design game systems that work together holistically on all fronts (Fun, UX, Monetization, Engagement, Retention, etc.). • Mentor other designers into your craft and help them grow. • Support the project at a foundational level.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a professional game designer. • Deep understanding and experience of Free-to-Play Live-Ops events and content pipelines. • Advanced mastery of spreadsheets and other design tools. • Proficiency with game data structures and configs on a technical level. • Thorough understanding of games' commercial appeal, including outside your personal gamer demographic. • Bilingual French/English is preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• A 100% flex environnement : from your home, from our offices in the center of the Old Montréal, or in a hybrid mode; • Flexible hours; • Social events to connect; • Healthy breakfast, coffee and tea, and offered lunch; • Access to our Gym and to its in person and virtual classes starting on your first day; • Partial refund of your STM/RTM; • An impressive health plan and virtual medical assistance available 24h/24h; • Collective RRSP with employer participation, referral and bonus programs.