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About the Role

General Intelligence builds highly-capable autonomous agents for startups, aiming to enable one-person, one-billion-dollar companies. Their product, Cofounder, helps entrepreneurs start and run businesses, designed to feel like a company-building game. This role seeks a game designer with a strong understanding of strategy games and gameplay loops to enhance Cofounder's fun, intuition, and strategic depth, translating game design instincts into product features.

Responsibilities

Design gameplay loops for Cofounder, including missions, goals, departments, progression, maps, unlocks, rewards, and recurring user actions.
Translate gameplay loops into direct product surfaces for users.
Convert "run your company" into clear, intuitive game mechanics users understand.
Build compounding strategy into the product, ensuring decisions matter, systems interact, and progress creates new options.
Make agent workflows feel fun, fast, and rewarding.
Collaborate with design and engineering to spec, ship, measure, and improve gameplay-driven product experiences.
Study user behavior to optimize and identify loops.
Evolve Cofounder to feel like a great strategy game while maintaining its utility for real companies.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in game design, game systems design, or gameplay design.
Experience in the gaming industry, ideally on strategy games, simulation games, live-service games, management games, MMOs, RPGs, or other systems-heavy products.
Shipped player-facing gameplay systems.
Deep understanding of strategy games, including macro loops, micro loops, progression, pacing, compounding systems, tutorials, rewards, and retention.
Ability to balance fun, clarity, pacing, and utility.
Strong commitment to product quality and craft.
High agency.
Possess "aura".

Skills

Game design
Game systems design
Gameplay design
Strategy game understanding
Balancing fun, clarity, pacing, and utility
Product quality
Craft

Location

New York

Work Type

Onsite

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Benefits

Relocation assistance
Unlimited token budget for AI tools

About the Company

General Intelligence builds highly-capable autonomous agents for startups.
The company's goal is to enable the one-person, one-billion-dollar company.
Operates with a small, elite team.
Maintains an environment with no bureaucracy.