At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games.
The key function of the Senior Systems Designer is to create and improve upon systems and features across the game in order to achieve product goals. They are responsible for creating and broadcasting design vision on large, complex features and economy work. Once the design is established, they will work closely with a number of other disciplines across the team in order to execute on that vision. There is an opportunity for this role to grow into a Lead Systems Designer in the future.
This is hybrid position is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In this role, you can expect to be involved in:
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to create compelling player experiences:
- Lead collaboration with Engineers, Data Scientists, and Live Operations to design engaging game systems and features that delight players.
- Work closely with the team to align the game's economy with technical feasibility and user experience goals.
- Provide strategic input on the game's vision and champion it:
- Offer strategic insights into the game's vision, with a focus on leveraging systems to craft player experiences that align with product goals.
- Advocate for the game's vision to other team members.
- Manage and mentor designers:
- Management of other designers include goal setting, providing guidance and regular reviews of the individual’s body of work.
- Be an example of a strong systems and economy designer; hold reports to these standards and deliver critical feedback and set clear expectations when necessary
- Design advanced rules and parameters for features and systems:
- Develop complex and innovative rules and parameters for in-game features and systems, ensuring depth and richness in the game's economy.
- Balance and fine-tune systems to create an engaging and balanced player progression.
- Design, implement, and lead tuning of game systems and economies:
- Lead the design and implementation of game systems and economies, ensuring they align with the game's vision and long-term goals.
- Continuously and strategically tune and balance these systems based on feedback from game teams, user testing, and the player community.
- Create comprehensive design documentation and visual aids:
- Produce detailed design documents, drawings, diagrams, and flowcharts to communicate complex economic design functionality and vision effectively.
- Ensure clarity and precision in conveying design concepts to the team.
- Lead iterative adjustments based on feedback:
- Drive iterative design adjustments and balancing efforts based on feedback from game teams, user testing, and the broader player community.
- Analyze data and player behavior to make informed design decisions.
- Define virtual products and their statistics in collaboration with the development team:
- Lead the definition of virtual products and their statistics, collaborating closely with the development team to ensure they align with the game's economic design.
- Understand how each virtual product contributes to the game's dynamics and overall economy.
- Focus on building free-to-play mobile games with exceptional player engagement:
- Prioritize designing free-to-play games that offer compelling and captivating experiences to players.
- Explore and implement monetization strategies that enhance player enjoyment and engagement.
- Continuously innovate and elevate game design practices:
- Stay at the forefront of industry trends and best practices in systems design, economy design and player behavior analysis.
- Introduce cutting-edge methodologies and innovative ideas to enhance the game's economic systems.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Post-secondary education in Game Design, Economics, Psychology, Mathematics, Marketing or related field.
- 5+ years experience as a Systems Designer, with fluency in F2P.
- Economy design background is preferred.
- Experience managing designers and supporting their career growth.
- Experience working within spreadsheets.
- Thorough understanding and appreciation of game design. As a player, you have a deep understanding of needs and emotions in the context of a game.
- Incredibly analytical thinking with the ability to break problems down.
- Market-knowledge that equips you with free-to-play product trends and monetization strategies to improve performance in the game.
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
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Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
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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.
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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, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
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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.
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PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
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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.
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Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
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Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
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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.
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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!
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Giving back: 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.
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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.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games,
Marvel Contest of Champions,
Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
