Lead Game Designer – Digital Health (Remote)

Design    ·     New York, NY     ·    Full-time 

Who We Are

At Statespace we’re using cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and video games to revolutionize the way that humans improve.

Our first product, Aim Lab, is a personalized training platform that helps gamers learn about their strengths and weaknesses and train for the game they love. Aim Lab has over 20 million players around the world and is available for free on Steam and even on Roblox. Aim Lab also has official partnerships with some of the biggest publishers, including Riot, Ubisoft, and Activision Blizzard.

Our team consists of scientists, designers, engineers, and game industry vets coming together from places like NYU, MTV, NASA, Yale, Nintendo, and the NFL. We are well-funded and supported by some of the world’s best investors and entrepreneurs, including Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Lux Capital, Expa Capital, and WndrCo.

Our Culture

Weird. Non-traditional background. Underdog. Outcast. If people have used any of these words or phrases to describe you…welcome home. Kick-ass engineer or designer without a degree? Come join our team.

We hire talented, self-motivated people and get out of their way. We are based in NYC but have a remote work culture and are looking for exceptional people to join our team regardless of their physical location.

We value performance, not hours worked (or when you work them). We believe you shouldn’t have to miss your kid’s play or doctor’s appointment for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

However, if you are looking for a job where you are happy to just collect a nice paycheck and/or nap under your desk like George Costanza, we are not the right fit for you (we don’t even have desks).

The work we do is hard, and therefore, a key company goal is to mitigate needless obstacles that prevent our team members from accomplishing their goals. To that end, our vacation policy is “take it whenever you want to”, our PTO policy is “take it whenever you need to”. We offer very generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement plans.

Lead Game Designer

We’re looking for an passionate, experienced game designer to lead the game design efforts for our flagship digital health product. Our vision for Digital Health at Statespace is to join cutting edge neuroscience and game design to maximize impact, engagement, and accessibility for modern digital health and wellness needs. Building on our core expertise and success in developing products for esports assessment and training, we are looking to disrupt the digital health and therapeutics industries with our unique perspective on engaging and effective products. Longer term, we envision a portfolio of products intersecting gaming and neuroscience to assess and monitor brain and body function (perception, cognition, and control of movement), to detect brain dysfunction, and for direct therapeutic intervention. This is an opportunity to have a massive impact on the company direction and the health and wellness of many people.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the game systems design and creative design work for our flagship digital health product.
• Collaborate with the key disciplines (product, design, engineering, and science) to design, prioritize, and build features that meet product goals.
• Create multiple potential designs and solutions in a sharable and collaborative format. Be able to articulate the pros and cons of each and your personal recommendations.
• Stay up-to-date on modern design trends in the mobile, PC, and console gaming industry. Objectively analyze our own design decisions and that of our competition.
• Participate in and help drive user research to anticipate the needs of our customers.
• Playtest our digital health products and help us push to continually improve our existing designs as well as develop new fresh ideas.

Ideal Skills

• 5+ years of experience in professional game design.
• Shipped at least one commercial PC or mobile game title.
• Understand the high level goal and in-the-weeds details of how to design game systems for engagement, motivation, and retention.
• Data-driven design. Can analyze and balance complex reward systems, in-game economies, social capabilities, and other similar product features.
• Creative expertise. Deeply understand narrative structure, visual appeal, theme, and content creation in game design.
• Product taste and craftsmanship. Make important product decisions with attention to detail. Strong eye for appeal in design.
• Track record of consistently delivering measurable results for users and impacting the companies you work for. Collaborate with others to make things happen. Bring order to chaos and complexity.
• Experience or training in a scientific field or industry (neuroscience and related fields in particular) or a strong desire to expand your domain knowledge.

The location of this role is US-Remote

We believe in hiring the best, the brightest, and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. You will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.

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