At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Kirkland
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- Cat Daddy is seeking a Technical Designer to design, prototype, and ship features for free-to-play mobile games.
- This role bridges the gap between design and engineering, managing features from initial pitch through to live build and tuning.
Responsibilities
- Design new gameplay experiences including limited-time events, game modes, and mini-games.
- Own features end to end, from pitch through prototype, shipped build, and live tuning.
- Write executable design specs including intent, constraints, acceptance criteria, and edge cases.
- Build, orchestrate, and refine agentic workflows across the design pipeline.
- Prototype directly in Unity to validate concepts against live service systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance fun, difficulty, and monetization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of game design experience with a focus on free-to-play mobile games.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or comparable relevant work experience.
- Deep, hands-on practice with agentic tooling and workflows.
- Fluency in context and prompt construction, task decomposition, tool design, and evaluation harnesses.
- Production experience in Unity building mobile games.
- Expert-level understanding of the mobile game market, game economies, data analysis, and back-end environments.
- Practical understanding of end-to-end game development pipelines.
- World-class communication skills and ability to produce effective design documentation.
- Must be able to work onsite in Kirkland, WA 4 days a week.
Benefits
- Bonus and/or equity awards
- 401(K) plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
- 14 paid holidays per calendar year
- Paid vacation time (15 to 25 days) or discretionary time off
- Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
- Paid parental and compassionate leave
- Wellbeing programs and family planning support through Maven
- Commuter benefits and fitness-related expense reimbursements
Workplace
- In-office position located in Kirkland, WA.
- Must be able to work onsite 4 days a week.
Skills
- Unity
- Agentic Workflows
- Game Design
- Data Analysis
- Game Economies
- Back-end Environments
- Live Infrastructure
