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Founding Game Designer

Elsewhere · Design

Remote scopeRemote

Type · levelFull-Time · Senior

SalaryNot listed

SkillsGame Design, design, startup

Game Design design startup multiplayer Roguelike

San Francisco, CA / Seattle, WA / Remote

Elsewhere is hiring a Founding Game Designer to help build a new kind of co-op multiplayer game. Our game captures the aesthetic and soul of indie games, the replayability and depth of roguelikes, and the ambition to become a forever game that reaches millions of players.

Our founders include a successful repeat entrepreneur and a games industry veteran, and we’ve teamed up with top Silicon Valley investors. We’re an idealistic team that loves video games and deeply believes in their potential: both as a creative medium and as a way for us to socialize and play together.

Your Profile

You bring a founder’s mindset to game design. That means you’re comfortable with ambiguity. Being part of a founding team excites you. You’re ready to roll up your sleeves and you’re hungry.
You like to multiclass. You’re a game design generalist, capable of owning design of gameplay, lore/narrative, progression systems, level design, and more.
You love games. You’re well-versed in everything from modern indie and AAA hits to the old school pioneers that inspired them.
You like to ship. You’re eager to share messy prototypes and half-baked ideas, both internally and with external playtesters.
You’re ambitious. You want to build something with massive reach that players are going to absolutely love. You want to push the envelope of games as a medium.
You’re collaborative. You’re excited to work closely with the founders, game artists, game engineers, our community, and more.
You’re experienced. You have at least three years of experience as a game designer, and have shipped at least one game.

You might also have:

Experience working on a small team, ideally in a startup environment.
Experience working on an online game, or some kind of game-as-a-service.
Experience with game systems design, especially in a roguelike or multiplayer game.
Ability to code functional prototypes of your designs.

We offer:

Generous equity compensation.
Relocation assistance (San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle).
Top-tier benefits, including medical, vision, and dental insurance.
Unlimited PTO (with an enforced minimum).
A small, tight-knit team of humble and hard-working gaming weirdos. :)

This is a rare opportunity to directly shape a game with massive potential from its earliest stages. If that sounds exciting, we’d absolutely love to hear from you, regardless of whether you meet exact requirements.

🕹️ Are you passionate about crypto, Web3, or NFTs? Then we’re probably not a great fit for you! We initially began life as a NFT / metaverse startup, but we’ve since left that behind. Though we think those technologies have potential, we came to realize that the values of that community just aren’t a fit for the vision of what we’re trying to build.

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About Elsewhere

Elsewhere is a San Francisco-based startup game studio building a new kind of multiplayer video game. We’re inspired by an emerging category of video game (called “roguelikes”) that, although dating back over 20 years, have recently taken the indie market by storm. Our game is the first to combine the roguelike play pattern with a live service game built around long-term retention, which is how billion dollar game franchises like League of Legends and Fortnite are built. Elsewhere is backed by top Silicon Valley investors.

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