Home Based Python Game Developer Jobs in Vancouver, BC

Key Accountabilities:

Creative and Gameplay Direction:

• Set and steward the long-term creative and gameplay direction of MCoC.
• Define and evolve the design pillars that govern Champion design, combat systems, progression (including Ascension), live events, and the end-to-end player journey.
• Hold the bar on quality and craft across every tentpole, saga, season, and live moment shipped.
• Make the calls on what gets built, how it gets tuned, and how it lands with players.

Design Discipline Leadership:

• Lead the Design team, including the Lead Designer and senior designers across combat, economy, content, and systems.
• Mentor and develop the Design discipline, building confidence, ownership, and craft.
• Establish and protect the design standards by which all MCoC content is evaluated.
• Recruit, retain, and grow design talent at all levels.

Cross-Functional Partnership and Strategy:

• Partner with the Director of Product on roadmap shape, monetization strategy, and prioritization calls across a multi-year live service.
• Work daily with Production, Engineering, Live Operations, Marketing, and Community to deliver coordinated outcomes.
• Represent the player and game health in senior decisions, including the tradeoffs between short-term commercial outcomes and long-term game runway.
• Contribute to studio-level planning and to the broader leadership team for MCoC.

Live Data, Player Health, and Communication:

• Read live performance data confidently and translate it into creative direction without losing the long view.
• Hold the balance between live operations cadence and long-term economy health.
• Communicate clearly and credibly across disciplines and levels, from design reviews through executive presentations through player-facing announcements.
• Engage with the player community when needed, representing the studio with authenticity and care.

• 10+ years of experience working on a GaaS (Games as a Service) product.
• 5+ years in a Game Director, Design Director, or principal-level design leadership capacity on a live-service mobile title at scale.
• Deep experience in action-RPG, collection RPG, gacha-driven live service, or hero-roster combat.
• Advanced understanding of game economics, monetisation design, and the relationship between live ops cadence and long-term player health.
• A collaborative working style with Product and Production leadership, with experience operating effectively in cross-functional senior teams.
• Sound product judgment and the ability to formulate creative strategy with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication skills across executive leadership, cross-functional disciplines, and player-facing channels.
• A track record of leading and developing design teams who do their best work.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

• Shipped or operated a tentpole live-service title for three or more years in-market.
• Experience evolving a long-running live service through a strategic step-up.
• Passion for Marvel, fighting games, or both.

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that's why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you're able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• Commuter Benefit: we believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and want to support you in making it work for you! We provide a flexible, monthly cash allowance to help cover the costs of transit, parking, or even personal logistics like childcare and pet care.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Whether it's summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, or watching the fireworks in Montreal's South Shore - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!