Sr Game Designer

The role

The Senior Game Designer will own progression systems, player lifecycle, and economic health for an upcoming live service title. You will design frameworks for progression loops and economy systems within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

What you will do

• Design, model, and maintain complex player progression frameworks, monetization loops, and virtual economies.
• Translate player experience goals into structural maps, spreadsheets, data tables, and algorithmic logic models.
• Own the balancing, pacing, and tuning of player rewards, XP curves, drop rates, and sink/source mechanics.
• Integrate progression, monetization, and social layers within a multiplayer AAA ecosystem.
• Act as the primary contact for progression and economy systems working with Directors, Producers, Data Analysts, and Engineers.
• Adapt and optimize systems post-launch based on player metrics and behavior patterns.

Required qualifications

• Extensive experience in systems or progression design with at least one shipped AAA multiplayer live service title.
• Highly methodical approach to design using mathematical logic, complex spreadsheets, and structural documentation.
• Deep understanding of macro and micro-economy principles including monetization strategies, virtual currencies, and reward pacing.
• Strong ability to work directly within the Unreal Engine editor to hook up data structures and configure data tables.
• Competence in interpreting live telemetry, player cohorts, A/B testing data, and macroeconomic analytics.
• Exceptional ability to distill complex economic dependencies into clear system specifications.

Nice to have

• Experience using economy simulation software or advanced mathematical scripting (e.g., Python, Machinations, or specialized spreadsheet modeling).
• Design experience crossing into Level Design, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or UX Design.

Before you apply

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees.

About the company

Haven Studios is a game development studio headquartered in Montreal and part of the PlayStation Studios family. They are developing a competitive multiplayer action heist game for PlayStation and PC.