Battle Creek Games · 4 months ago
Senior Technical Designer, Unity
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
6+ years expBattle Creek Games is a studio known for popular mobile titles like Offroad Outlaws and No Limit Drag Racing 2, and they are seeking a Senior Technical Designer to bridge product thinking and Unity implementation. The role involves owning features from concept to live operations, designing gameplay systems, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-impact features.
Computer Games
Responsibilities
Own features end-to-end: from opportunity sizing and spec → prototype → production → liveops iteration
Design & implement gameplay systems (progression, events, economy, meta, tuning, difficulty, reward loops) directly in Unity + C#
Prototype quickly in-editor (greybox levels, temp UI/UX flows, state machines) to validate fun and feasibility
Author tools & pipelines (editor utilities, data-driven configs, ScriptableObject frameworks) that speed up content creation
Instrument analytics (events, funnels) and define success metrics/KPIs; run A/B tests and use results to iterate
Balance & tune economies and rewards with a practical view of retention and monetization
Partner with engineering on performant, memory-safe implementations for mobile (Addressables, asset budgets, profiling)
Collaborate with art & UI/UX to land interactions, feedback, and polish it to feel authentic to our genres
Write clear specs & docs (goals, acceptance criteria, telemetry plans) that align cross‑functional teams
Champion players: review feedback, triage issues, and prioritize changes that meaningfully move core KPIs
Qualification
Required
6+ years in game design or technical design, with Unity as your primary engine
Shipped at least 2 titles (mobile F2P preferred) with live operations experience
Strong C# for gameplay scripting, tools, and data pipelines (ScriptableObjects, Editor tooling, Timeline/Playables, Prefab variants, Addressables)
Demonstrated product mindset: can set goals, define KPIs, estimate impact, and make tradeoffs
Comfort with analytics (event schemas, funnel thinking) and experimentation (A/B tests, Remote Config)
Solid grasp of mobile performance constraints: batching, memory budgets, quality tiers, frame time, profiling
Excellent communication: concise specs, thoughtful feedback, and cross‑discipline collaboration
Preferred
Vehicle handling, tuning, and customization systems (garages, parts, upgrades, cosmetics)
Competitive features (leaderboards, leagues, live events, matchmaking constraints)
UGC-friendly tooling (level/track params, surface types, checkpoints, spawn logic)
Benefits
Health insurance
Paid time off
Flexible work options
Company
Battle Creek Games
Battle Creek Games is a leader in mobile gaming, proudly creating experiences that engage millions of players worldwide every day.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase