Principal Game Designer (Genre Specialist)

Salary

Core Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

• •Define and refine best-in-class minute-to-minute gameplay experience, including controls, movement, and player feedback across visual, audio, and haptic layers.
• •Build scalable and deeply engaging gameplay systems, including combat systems, character control, level interaction, mission flow, progression systems, and long-term engagement loops.
• •Lead the design evaluation and strategic improvement of core gameplay pillars, including 3C, combat/system design, level design, mission structure, world interaction, and player progression.
• •Analyze leading global games in shooter, casual competitive and RPG genres, and turn insights into reusable design frameworks.
• •Set high-quality design benchmarks for core projects, including 3C, system interaction, and world exploration pacing.
• •Work directly with project teams to solve critical design problems, especially in GaaS systems, gameplay innovation, and economy balance.
• •Review prototypes and milestone builds to ensure projects are fun and distinctive in the global market.
• •Provide hands-on design consultation to teams in development, with focus on high-priority shooter-related challenges.
• •Help identify genre opportunities, product risks, and improvement areas early through expert review, structured feedback, and design modeling.
• •Represent the company through thought leadership at industry events such as GDC, Devcom, and similar conferences.