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About the Role
This role sits within the GRC (Game Research Center) team and requires a highly authoritative game design leader with extensive hands-on development experience across global shooter, Games as a Service (GaaS), and PvP-focused titles. The individual will define the next generation of gameplay standards, provide strategic direction on product design trends, solve critical design challenges, and identify opportunities for new game franchises.
Responsibilities
- Define and refine best-in-class minute-to-minute gameplay experience, including controls, movement, and player feedback.
- Build scalable and deeply engaging gameplay systems, including combat systems, character control, level interaction, mission flow, progression systems, and long-term engagement loops.
- Lead the design evaluation and strategic improvement of core gameplay pillars, including live service, 3C, combat/system design, level design, mission structure, world interaction, and player progression.
- Ensure systems are accessible, strategically deep, highly replayable, and fun over the long term.
- Analyze leading global games in global shooter, casual competitive and RPG game genres, and turn those insights into reusable design frameworks.
- Set high-quality design benchmarks for core projects, including 3C, system interaction, and world exploration pacing.
- Work directly with project teams to solve critical design problems, especially in GaaS systems, gameplay innovation, and economy balance.
- Review prototypes and milestone builds to ensure projects are both fun and distinctive in the global market.
- Provide hands-on design consultation to teams in development, with particular focus on high-priority shooter-related challenges, while also supporting selected opportunities in innovative casual and RPG projects.
- Help identify genre opportunities, product risks, and improvement areas early through expert review, structured feedback, and design modeling.
- Represent the company through thought leadership at industry events such as GDC, Devcom, and similar conferences.
- Use industry reputation and network to connect with top global design talent and strengthen Tencent’s influence in game development.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in game design.
- At least the past 5 years spent as a lead designer or core systems owner on globally recognized large-scale game projects.
- Proven success in shooter games, with strong practical experience in level design, 3C, combat design, and/or gameplay systems design.
- Strong industry recognition, ideally demonstrated through thought leadership and speaking engagements at major industry conferences or forums.
Skills
- Ability to design systems from the ground up that support long-term player engagement.
- Deep understanding of gameplay loops such as combat, progression, mission structure, exploration, social interaction, player creativity, and long-term retention.
- Expertise in 3C feel, including responsiveness, combat impact, camera, and audiovisual feedback.
- Understanding of hardcore players, competitive fairness, and player communities.
- Fluent English.
- Ability to work effectively with global development teams.
- Strong structured thinking: able to turn creative ideas into clear design documents and system models.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a practical and supportive approach.
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience in game design
- 5+ years as a lead designer or core systems owner
About the Company
- Tencent Games was established in 2003 and is a leading global platform for game development, operations and publishing, and the largest online game community in China.
- Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games, providing cross-platform interactive entertainment for over 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions.
- Popular titles include Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends.
- Tencent Games actively promotes the development of the esports industry, collaborates with global partners to build an open, collaborative, and symbiotic industrial ecology, and creates high-quality digital life experiences for players.
- Game Research Center (GRC) is a department focusing on game industry study, game analysis, game design research, data analysis, and game development supporting.
- GRC is one of the world’s leading research facilities in the game industry, building a global knowledge tank to help teams make better decisions.
Equal Opportunity
- As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community.
- We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.