Technical Game Designer

2Ks Cat Daddy studio based in Kirkland Washington was started 25 years ago by industry veterans and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive within the 2K Label . The studio is a fun dedicated family of incredibly hardworking game developers . We have shipped games on almost every genre and platform with a current focus on mobile games .

What We Need:

Cat Daddy is seeking a Technical Designer to join our team of artists engineers and product managers to design prototype and ship features for free-to-play mobile games. This role sits between design and engineering. You will carry a feature from the first pitch through to the live build: writing the spec standing up the prototype in Unity wiring it into the services that run our games and tuning it once players are inside it. The ideal candidate has shipped multiple F2P mobile games in a design or technical design role.

This is an in-office position located in Kirkland WA. Must be able to work onsite 4 days a week.

What You Will Do:

• Design new gameplay experiences including limited-time events complete game modes and mini-games that add variety and excitement to the core game loop.

• Own features end to end from the pitch through a working prototype the shipped build and the live tuning pass that follows.

• Write specs that hold up as executable instructions: clear intent explicit constraints acceptance criteria edge cases and the failure states that separate a good build from a plausible one.

• Build orchestrate and refine agentic workflows across the design pipeline covering research competitive teardowns spec drafting prototype scaffolding balance sweeps content authoring and telemetry analysis.

• Prototype directly in Unity so a concept can be played and validated against live service systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance fun difficulty and monetization across your designs.

Who We Think Will Be A Great Fit:

• 5 years of game design experience with a focus on free-to-play mobile games plus a Bachelors degree in a related field and/or comparable relevant work experience.

• Deep hands-on practice with agentic tooling and workflows used daily rather than demoed occasionally.

• Fluency in the craft that makes those workflows work: context and prompt construction task decomposition tool and permission design checkpointing evaluation harnesses and honest measurement of quality over time.

• Production experience in Unity building mobile games.

• Expert-level understanding of the mobile game market from a game design perspective including game economies data analysis back-end environments and live infrastructure.

• Practical understanding of game development pipelines end to end.

• World-class communication skills with proven ability to produce effective design documentation and a great teammate who can collaborate with engineers and artists on game development.

The pay range for this position in Kirkland WA at the start of employment is expected to be between $88700 and $131300 per year. However base pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Regular full-time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company including: medical dental vision and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Companys discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

If hired employee will be in an at-will position and the company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.

At Cat Daddy we believe diversity of experience is fundamental to crafting accessible and fun gaming experiences for all of our players . We encourage everyone to consider being a part of our team .

We are an equal opportunity employer . We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status . We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment . Please contact us to request accommodation .

Please note that Cat Daddy is unable to provide visa sponsorship or assistance for this position. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in United States without requiring current or future employer sponsorship.

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