Principal Game Designer (Engagement / Progression Systems)
Full Time • Fully Remote - US
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for advancement
- Training & development
Principal Game Designer (Engagement / Progression Systems)
Location: Preferred Cary, NC / North Carolina, open to Remote
What we offer
- Remote option available (NC preferred for team collaboration)
- High-impact design ownership across a large, live-service platform
- Fast iteration environment with strong cross-disciplinary partnership
Role Overview
We are hiring Principal Game Designers to solve high-level engagement challenges across a flagship live-service multiplayer ecosystem. This role focuses on evolving established engagement structures (e.g., quests, passes, progression, rewards) and inventing new systems that guide experience, mastery, and long-term participation.
You will set vision across cross-functional teams, ensure engagement systems support long-term health, and drive rapid iteration—prototype, ship, learn, and refine.
Responsibilities
- Craft meaningful goals that grow exposure, experience, and mastery of new and existing gameplay mechanics.
- Lead innovation for engagement systems, including progression loops, rewards, and frameworks aligned to engagement metrics.
- Define and communicate a clear experience vision across multiple internal teams and disciplines.
- Partner with product and marketing teams to support satisfaction, ecosystem health, and growth-driving activations.
- Drive iterative live design: prototype quickly, ship improvements, analyze outcomes, and iterate fast.
Requirements
- 10+ years shipping multiple titles as a game designer.
- Deep experience building engagement content or goal-based progression systems in live-service multiplayer environments.
- Demonstrated ability to empathize with players and translate motivations into durable systems and goals.
- Strong understanding of what drives engagement and long-term participation in multiplayer ecosystems.
- Ability to adapt quickly to shifting needs, make decisions, and own the vision end-to-end.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field preferred (or equivalent experience).
- Player-focused, solutions-driven, innovative, and decisive working style.
This is a remote position.
Compensation: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
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