Senior Game Designer

Are you passionate about making great games and delivering unforgettable player experiences? Then this might just be the job for you! Starbreeze is now looking for a Senior Game Designer to join our team in Stockholm, Sweden.

As a leader within the Game Design group, you will work closely with technical and creative leadership to design, develop, maintain and balance engaging game features within the Payday franchise. You will be involved at every stage of the process, from early inception through to implementation. This is truly a once in a career opportunity!

Job Tasks:

- Serve as a collaborative leader and coordinator within cross-disciplinary teams.
- Work together with your directors and lead to formulate and carry through the game vision and desired player experience.
- Design, implement, iterate, balance, and tune game mechanics and systems.
- Work closely with the rest of the game design team to ensure a cohesive player experience.
- Work closely with other departments to produce game design documentation and validate experiences through prototyping, playtesting, and iteration.
- Mentor and coach other game designers.


Must Have:

- At least 6+ years of game design experience within the games industry.
- At least 2+ years of experience working in AAA games.
- Shipped at least 1 title as a Senior Game Designer or Lead.
- Passionate about the player experience and committed to a cross-disciplinary and playtest-driven development environment.
- Self-motivated and proactive with a commitment to ensuring a constructive and collaborative work environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience coordinating a game design team to deliver a major gameplay feature.


Good to Have:

- Game design experience in multiplayer/co-op shooter games.
- Experience in game design for networked multiplayer games, such as player progression, balancing, social systems, economies, or customization/in-game editors.
- Knowledge of progression, metagame and economy systems in AAA and live service games.
- Experience with prototyping in Unreal or similar 3D Engines.
- Experience with programming and scripting languages (e.g. C++, C#, Lua, etc.).
- Experience managing cross-disciplinary teams.


Still reading? Good...because here’s the good part of this job ad:

We offer you a position at a company where we value empowerment, agility and ownership. While we evolve we want you to grow with us and to develop as a professional.

What more do we offer?

- Competitive salaries with yearly reviews
- Yearly wellness benefit
- Referral bonuses
- 6 weeks paid vacation per year
- Pension on top of salary, ≈50% above collective agreement standard
- 90% of your salary will be covered while on Parental leave for up to 6 months
- Relocation support if you move from abroad
- Ideal office location in central Stockholm


Sounds good? Then we can’t wait to see your CV and portfolio and look forward to meeting you. We recommend that you apply as soon as possible as selection and interviews are held continuously. Send your application with a resumé, portfolio and cover letter in English. All applications must include a resumé and cover letter to be considered.