Top Game Design Jobs in Vancouver

Designs and implements live-ops events and content for a mobile game, including balancing systems, analyzing player feedback and metrics, improving design tools, and collaborating across disciplines. Creates new event types, prototypes features, writes design documentation and user stories, leads brainstorming, and advocates for player-focused design. The role requires strong game systems, content, narrative, math, balancing, pacing, and mobile gaming expertise.

Designs, balances, and implements gameplay systems including progression, economies, rewards, stats, and game modes. Tunes systems using feedback, metrics, and playtests; analyzes systemic outcomes; documents design logic and balancing guidelines; and collaborates with engineering, art, production, and design teams. The role supports player agency, emergent storytelling, meaningful trade-offs, and long-term engagement in a large-scale sports game.

Design and champion gameplay experiences, core features, levels, and scripted encounters across the full game development lifecycle. Collaborate with directors, engineers, artists, and production to deliver polished games. Present design concepts, solve complex design problems, improve tools and processes, and mentor teammates. The role requires shipped game experience, strong programming or scripting proficiency, 3D layout expertise, and proficiency with tools such as Maya, Unreal, or Unity. This is a hybrid position based in Vancouver.

Lead the visual transformation of a game’s UI identity and establish scalable design systems across PC, console, and mobile. Responsibilities include defining visual rules, typography, iconography, illustrations, HUD art direction, motion design, and AI-assisted generation workflows. The role requires creating high-fidelity prototypes, auditing existing interfaces, and partnering with technical UI artists, engineers, and AI developers to ensure accurate in-engine implementation. This remote position requires Pacific Time availability and Canadian residency with work authorization.

Design and iterate gameplay moments, levels, and core features in collaboration with directors, engineers, and artists. Script gameplay encounters, build 3D layouts in Unreal/Unity, present and defend design ideas, own features through development, mentor teammates, and help improve tools and processes.

The Lead Game Designer will envision and design game features, develop prototypes, iterate designs based on feedback, and manage a design team.

Design engaging gameplay features and systems for a 3D SLG mobile game under the Lead Designer. Produce documentation, coordinate with art and programming, test and accept builds, and use AI tools to accelerate design workflows. Drive assigned system projects to completion and perform additional team duties.

Design and document engaging mobile SLG gameplay systems, coordinate with art and engineering to deliver features, test and accept builds, use AI tools to accelerate design and documentation, and support live-service operations under the Lead Designer.

Design combat/economy systems for mobile strategy games, collaborate with teams, analyze data for player engagement and monetization enhancements, and monitor in-game economics.