Kabam is hiring a
Senior RPG Designer, Remote - Canada
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Summary
Kabam is hiring a Senior RPG Champion Designer to join their Vancouver studio for Marvel Contest of Champions. The role involves creating captivating characters and content, designing core RPG systems, establishing a strategic plan for RPG content design, managing and mentoring other designers, analyzing gameplay data, partnering with leads in managing the RPG design team, and sharing knowledge with junior team members.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in the video games industry
- Experience managing game designers on a live-service title
- Experience driving roadmapping and planning for live-service deliverables
- Experience designing playable characters (or abilities, or cards, or units, etc) on at least one shipped title
Responsibilities
- Create captivating characters and content that players will encounter and interact with throughout the game, encouraging strategy and collection
- Design core RPG systems like character stats, RPG progression, skills, classes, and abilities, to create a deep and rewarding gameplay experience
- Establish a long-term strategic plan for RPG content design, live game management, and content releases
- Directly manage and mentor one or more RPG designers: guide career milestones, manage annual goal setting, and deliver performance reviews
- Partner in the roadmapping and planning of tasks and responsibilities within the RPG team
- Consider how a character will fit into an existing character ecosystem and design and build script mechanics for abilities
- Analyze gameplay data metrics used to understand player behavior (usage rates, pass rates, alliance trends, etc.)
- Analyze player feedback, behavior, and engagement metrics to identify opportunities for improving the RPG experience
- Partner with the Content and RPG Leads in managing the daily operations and workflow of the RPG design team
- Share knowledge, experience, and best practices with junior team members and other disciplines to foster professional growth and development
Preferred Qualifications
- Curiosity and logical thinking
- Familiarity with top mobile titles and current market and genre trends with focus on RPGs
- Bonus if you have raw technical skills including Scripting experience
Benefits
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period!
- DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you
- RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being
- Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home
- Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend
- Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion
- Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Agents of Change' initiative: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize
- Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam
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