Senior System Designer

What does being a Senior System Designer at Ludia look like

As a Senior System Designer, you will report to the Lead designer and you will work directly with the team members, designers, artists, data scientists and developers.

Missions

• Handle large parts of the game and oversee multiple game systems.
• Design metagames, economies, gameplay and any other needed game systems from A to Z.
• Foresee complex issues and resolve them before they happen.
• Turn complexity into simple and fun player facing experiences by analyzing, abstracting and conceptualizing deep systems to reduce them to their essential.
• Design with Fun, User Experience (UX) and product (KPIs) in mind.
• Apply systemic thinking to creative processes and problem solving.
• Create game systems from scratch, balance them and create your own tools when needed.
• Use spreadsheets, projections, system prototyping, simulations, resource flows, flowcharts, game loops, progression curves and any other tools needed to design and communicate clear and functional game systems.
• Use well established theoretical and industry best practices (e.g. Rational Game Design, Compulsion Loops, etc.).
• Produce sustainable game design documentation to facilitate the integration of features and balancings to the game through any part of a game’s life-cycle.
• Collaborate with other designers, creative owners, stakeholders and disciplines to design game systems that work together holistically on all fronts (Fun, UX, Monetization, Engagement, Retention, etc.).
• Mentor other designers into your craft and help them grow.
• Support the project at a foundational level.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a professional game designer.
• Deep understanding and experience of Free-to-Play Live‑Ops events and content pipelines.
• Advanced mastery of spreadsheets and other design tools.
• Proficiency with game data structures and configs on a technical level.
• Thorough understanding of games' commercial appeal, including outside your personal gamer demographic.

Even Better If You Have

• Bilingual French/English.
• Interest for remote/hybrid work.

Benefits

• A 100% flex environment: from your home, from our offices in the center of Old Montréal, or in a hybrid mode.
• Flexible hours.
• Social events to connect.
• Healthy breakfast, coffee and tea, and offered lunch.
• Access to our Gym and to its in‑person and virtual classes starting on your first day.
• Partial refund of your STM/RTM.
• An impressive health plan and virtual medical assistance available 24/7.
• Collective RRSP with employer participation, referral and bonus programs.

EEO Statement

At Ludia we welcome, support and celebrate diversity. We are committed to providing an environment that fosters inclusion and respect for all. We thus encourage women, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, First Nations people, people living with a disability and or part of any marginalized group to apply for our positions.