Lead Game Designer

Summary

Join Gameloft Bucharest as a Lead Game Designer to spearhead the creative vision and execution of a new PC/console game built using Unreal Engine. You will guide the game's design pillars, lead the design team, and ensure all gameplay aligns with the product vision. Collaborate with the Creative Director and cross-functional leads to create compelling player experiences while fostering a collaborative environment. This leadership role requires a passion for game systems, player experience, and team leadership. You will define the game's vision, lead the design strategy, mentor designers, translate design pillars into features, review design specs, collaborate with other leads, represent the design team in meetings, and maintain design documentation. You will also prototype features, produce game pitches, and understand PC/console design considerations.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in game design, including at least one shipped title in a senior or leadership design role
• Proven experience leading design teams and mentoring other designers
• Deep understanding of systems design, game feel, balance, and progression mechanics
• Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator, able to advocate for design priorities while understanding technical/artistic constraints
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine (Blueprints required; other subsystems are a plus)
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative, and cross-disciplinary development environment
• A passion for building memorable player experiences and shaping the future of gameplay
• Fast prototyping skills and openness to numerous iterations
• Excellent organizational skills and methodology

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Creative Director to define, articulate, and champion the game’s vision, systems, and player experience goals
• Own and drive the design strategy from pre-production through live operations, ensuring strong alignment across gameplay mechanics, progression, and content
• Lead and mentor a team of designers, setting quality standards, coaching growth, and supporting delivery
• Translate design pillars into concrete features and execution roadmaps
• Review and give feedback on design specs, prototypes, and builds with an eye for both gameplay feel and production constraints
• Collaborate with tech, art, and production leads to balance innovation, feasibility, and execution timelines
• Represent the design team in stakeholder meetings, reviews, and cross-discipline planning discussions
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation and workflows to ensure clarity, alignment, and scalability of game features
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and areas for iteration across all design domains
• Understand the specific considerations of designing for PC and console platforms. Ensure best practices are communicated and adhered to in the implementation of accessible gameplay mechanics and progression loops
• Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, systems, and features to execute the game vision through the full cycle of production from concept to final stage
• Working in the Engine to prototype / improve various features
• Produce game pitches/presentations for new games for a multi-disciplinary production team

Benefits

• We offer full support for the relocation process (relocation package, help with all the administrative steps etc.)
• Short Friday schedule, so you can start your Weekend at 4pm!
• Hybrid work (2 days /week from the office)
• Medical insurance package, in partnership with Regina Maria Clinic
• 2 months/year of full remote to work from anywhere you want!
• Monthly budget for My Benefits platform
• Extra days off for your birthday, your children`s birthday and company’s anniversary. Everyone is celebrated!
• Flexibility around core studio hours
• Book your free massage @office, every Tuesday and Thursday!
• Unique creative and professional work culture that embraces diversity
• Supportive working climate, a team with a free communication style
• Bookster (borrow books for free, delivered in the office)