Second Dinner is hiring a
Principal Game Designer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Game Designer (Feature Design Lead) at Second Dinner, a remote-first game development studio. The role involves managing a team and owning key systems and features in the game Marvel Snap. The candidate should have experience working on live service games, mobile games, and leading designers.

Requirements

• Consistent track record of game design excellence
• Experience working on live service games
• Experience working on mobile games
• Experience owning game systems on shipped titles
• Comfortable discussing ranges of KPIs and weighing design impact against them
• Deep understanding of player types, behaviors, and motivations
• Experience managing player sentiment with live operations
• Experience leading and managing designers and design efforts

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Feature Design Team
• Own the design for key systems and features in MARVEL SNAP such as new game modes, events, progression and reward systems, social systems, and more
• Be the go-to expert for many new features, fielding questions from product managers, engineers, artists, producers, other designers, etc
• Continuously improve our system design in MARVEL SNAP through collaboration with the awesome folks on our product team
• Help us predict and understand the impact of new features in advance using a mix of metrics, ecosystem knowledge, player sentiment, and your own experience
• Measure and optimize our systems through partnership with our data science team
• Create and maintain team visibility by writing clear and concise documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Programming experience, particularly C#
• Experience working on card games
• Experience in Unity

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans with Second Dinner paying 100% of premiums for employees and 75% for dependents for many plans
• 401(k) contribution with no waiting period
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with no waiting period
• Home office improvement bonus
• Paid Vacation & Sick time
• Up to 10 BetterHelp sessions covered each benefits plan year
• Remote-first with core overlap hours between 10AM and 4PM PT
• Company Summer Holiday shutdown (week of July 4)
• Company Winter Holiday shutdown (Dec 25-Jan 1)
• Company Events - In-person Summer all-hands gathering, in-person holiday party, annual camping event, and virtual events throughout the year