Lead Game Designer

Job Description

Overview

Gameloft Bucharest is seeking a Lead Game Designer to drive the creative vision and execution of an unannounced PC/console title built in Unreal Engine.
As a Lead Game Designer, you will be responsible for guiding the game’s design pillars, leading the design team, and ensuring all gameplay systems, mechanics, and content align with the product vision. You’ll work closely with the Creative Director, production, and cross-functional leads to turn vision into compelling player experiences, while also fostering an environment of design excellence and collaboration.

This is a high-impact leadership role ideal for someone passionate about game systems, player experience, and leading teams to deliver high-quality design.

Your main challenges will include:

• Partner with the Creative Director to define, articulate, and champion the game’s vision, systems, and player experience goals.
• Own and drive the design strategy from pre-production through live operations, ensuring strong alignment across gameplay mechanics, progression, and content.
• Lead and mentor a team of designers, setting quality standards, coaching growth, and supporting delivery.
• Translate design pillars into concrete features and execution roadmaps.
• Review and give feedback on design specs, prototypes, and builds with an eye for both gameplay feel and production constraints.
• Collaborate with tech, art, and production leads to balance innovation, feasibility, and execution timelines.
• Represent the design team in stakeholder meetings, reviews, and cross-discipline planning discussions.
• Create and maintain high-quality documentation and workflows to ensure clarity, alignment, and scalability of game features.
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and areas for iteration across all design domains.
• Understand the specific considerations of designing for PC and console platforms. Ensure best practices are communicated and adhered to in the implementation of accessible gameplay mechanics and progression loops.
• Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, systems, and features to execute the game vision through the full cycle of production from concept to final stage
• Working in the Engine to prototype / improve various features.
• Produce game pitches/presentations for new games for a multi-disciplinary production team.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Extensive professional experience in game design, including at least one shipped title in a senior or leadership design role.
• Proven experience leading design teams and mentoring other designers.
• Deep understanding of systems design, game feel, balance, and progression mechanics.
• Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator, able to advocate for design priorities while understanding technical/artistic constraints.
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine (Blueprints required; other subsystems are a plus).
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, iterative, and cross-disciplinary development environment.
• A passion for building memorable player experiences and shaping the future of gameplay.
• Fast prototyping skills and openness to numerous iterations.
• Excellent organizational skills and methodology.

What Gameloft Bucharest can offer you?

• We offer full support for the relocation process (relocation package, help with all the administrative steps etc.)
• Short Friday schedule, so you can start your Weekend at 4pm!
• Hybrid work (2 days /week from the office)
• Medical insurance package, in partnership with Regina Maria Clinic
• 2 months/year of full remote to work from anywhere you want!
• Monthly budget for My Benefits platform
• Extra days off for your birthday, your children`s birthday and company’s anniversary. Everyone is celebrated!
• Flexibility around core studio hours
• Book your free massage @office, every Tuesday and Thursday!
• Unique creative and professional work culture that embraces diversity
• Supportive working climate, a team with a free communication style
• Bookster (borrow books for free, delivered in the office)

Additional Information

Why join Gameloft?

• We are a game development studio in the greenest part of Bucharest
• We have diverse backgrounds and we all love to work on our own games and ideas
• You would work in an agile team where everybody’s inputs are valued
• You will be using robust systems that serve millions of players
• Exercising your creativity when solving tasks is much appreciated
• We don't have many meetings :D

You can apply with your English or Romanian CV. 

At Gameloft, we believe in diversity, so no applicant will be discriminated against based on criteria such as gender, age, gender identity, religion, nationality, etc.

We can’t wait to find our next great talent!