Principal Economy Designer

🕒 April 2

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $172k - $258k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

✍️ Designer

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teamLFG

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11 - 50 employees

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gaming • B2C

teamLFG is a PlayStation Studios-affiliated game development studio based in Bellevue, WA that builds immersive, action-driven social multiplayer games designed to foster friendship, community, and belonging. The team combines industry veterans (with credits on Destiny, Halo, League of Legends, Fortnite, Roblox, Rec Room) and newer creators working across the U. S. and Canada to deliver highly polished moment-to-moment gameplay and long-term multiplayer engagement.

📋 Description

• As a hands-on individual contributor, own the design goals and implementation of progression systems that meet the needs of onboarding newcomers and returning seasoned players • Deliver achievement and reward structures that encourage pro-social and collaborative behavior in team games • Set the standards for player motivational loops that are ethical, meaningful, and enriching. • Define player experience goals to evolve the economic ecosystem based on feedback from leadership, live KPIs, and community sentiment • Collaborate with Product Managers and other leads (combat, social systems, UX designers) to roll out impactful systemic solutions that are sustainable long-term • Oversee and drive seasonal content delivery to continually surprise and delight the community

🎯 Requirements

• Strong foundation in building goal-driven, competitive multiplayer game progression and economies • Demonstrate empathy and understanding of different player motivations in PVP games and the ability to design incentives that generate short- to long-term engagement for them • Proven ability to both propose design concepts and perform hands-on implementation (e.g., using scripting or prototyping tools to bring systems to life) • Expertise in balancing content perishability against lifetime persistence of seasonal resets to sustain player motivation • Experience testing and running resets of the economy and progression in a live-service multiplayer environment is ideal • Self-driven and collaborative across crafts, with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills • Track record designing game economies that encourage social connections between players through the value of virtual goods • Experience delegating work or ownership of an area to multidisciplinary peers • Familiarity with development using Unreal Engine 5

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • matching 401(k) • paid time off • wellness program • coveted employee discounts for Sony products