[Hiring] Lead Game Designer @Game District

Role Description

We are hiring a Lead Game Designer for a remote position who will own the design vision and quality bar across our games while building and mentoring a multidisciplinary game design team that consistently delivers high-quality, data-informed experiences. This is a product-focused leadership role responsible for improving retention, engagement, progression, and monetization by defining a clear design direction, maintaining a high standard of design quality, and driving a disciplined A/B testing and design R&D practice. The role is fully remote and requires at least 4–5 hours of daily overlap with Pakistan Standard Time (GMT+5).

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Sets a clear design vision and holds a high quality bar without becoming a bottleneck.
• Is hands-on with systems design and design documentation, not only management.
• Builds and mentors designers toward domain specialization.
• Uses data and experimentation to prioritize and validate design decisions.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years in mobile F2P game design, with meaningful time spent leading or mentoring designers.
• Shipped multiple live products or major updates, not just prototypes.
• Strong systems design fundamentals: gameplay, retention, progression, economy, monetization, LiveOps.
• Strong design documentation: specs, economy and progression sheets, and tuning plans that engineers and artists can build without guessing.
• A/B testing ownership: hypotheses, test design, analysis, and decision-making.
• Comfortable with product analytics and dashboards (e.g., ByteBrew, Adjust) to drive design decisions.
• Comfortable leading remotely and influencing without authority.
• Very strong English (written and spoken).

Requirements

• Hybrid simulation / management (sim/tycoon) game expertise.
• Experience building a multidisciplinary design team and specialization tracks from scratch.
• Familiarity with predictive modelling and building design analytics pipelines and dashboards.
• Familiarity with Unity pipelines and constraints (no coding required).
• Experience working with teams across multiple time zones.

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility.
• High-ownership role. We care about outcomes, not meetings.
• Must be available for key overlap hours with GMT+5 for reviews and alignment.

Key Deliverables (Expected Outputs)

• A clear, documented design vision and direction for each product.
• A maintained design quality bar: standards and templates for specs, sheets, A/B tests, and playtesting.
• A multidisciplinary design team with visible progress on each designer's specialization track.
• A running studio-wide A/B testing pipeline with quality hypotheses, documentation, and analysis.
• Design R&D output applied to live products (tools, dashboards, predictive models).
• Regular design reviews with clear decisions, action items, and ownership.

Decision Rights & Interfaces

• Design hires, exits, and specialization paths.
• Studio-wide design quality standards and review metrics.
• A/B testing methodology and pipeline.
• Design tooling and R&D investment.