Principal Game Designer at TechlandSA

We are looking for a Principal Game Designer to serve as a key partner to the Game Director. This role is designed for a highly experienced professional who wants to shape the core of our project by working in close, active collaboration with the Director and the broader development team. This is a role for a leader who excels at bridging the gap between high-level creative vision and daily production. You will act as a primary collaborator for the Game Director, ensuring that creative intent is clearly translated, understood, and executed across all game systems.  This position requires someone who thrives in complex development environments, a leader who engages deeply with the team to identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot design challenges, and ensure the project remains coherent, cohesive, and high-quality from inception to completion. Your Goal: • Serve as a strategic partner to the Game Director, ensuring alignment between the overarching creative vision and the daily output of the design team. • Act as a bridge between leadership and the development teams, fostering clear communication and shared design goals. • Maintain the integrity of the project’s design through active participation in reviews and collaborative problem-solving. • Ensure all systems, gameplay, AI, and mechanics are polished, balanced, and fully integrated to meet our AAA standards. Your Daily Tasks: • Partner with the Game Director to define and refine design pillars, challenging assumptions constructively to ensure the best possible outcomes for the game. • Engage directly with the design, art, and engineering teams to address complex issues. You will move beyond high-level oversight to help the team analyze, debug, and resolve systemic design roadblocks. • Regularly attend and lead design reviews, providing actionable, clear feedback that pushes the team toward higher quality and better cohesion. • Act as a central point of contact between departments (e.g., Code, Art, Animation) to ensure that design requirements are clear and that dependencies are managed effectively. • Contribute to providing high-level guidance to the design team, setting the standard for design documentation, execution, and analytical thinking.