Lead Game Designer
Fenris Creations · Reykjavík, Iceland ·
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Design
- Experience
- 2+ years
Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games, is seeking a Lead Game Designer to help our EVE Online design team grow, align, and deliver impactful gameplay and system as we build EVE into its third decade.
This is primarily a leadership role. While design judgment is essential, your greatest impact will come from mentorship, communication, and enabling designers to do their best work within complex, long-running live systems.
- Lead, mentor, and support senior designers, with a focus on growth, feedback, and long-term career development
- Improve team effectiveness by strengthening communication, collaboration, and clarity across disciplines
- Partner with the Game Design Director to evolve and uphold EVE Online’s design process
- Guide feature teams through exploration and development, encouraging a solution-oriented mindset while preserving momentum
- Foster a culture of empowerment, experimentation, and learning within a live service environment
- Identify and address team health issues early, helping teams navigate alignment challenges
- Act as a trusted design leader for stakeholders, aligning goals and constraints into shared understanding
- 6+ years of game design experience, including 2+ years in a people-focused leadership role
- Proven ability to mentor and grow experienced designers
- Extensive experience with gameplay systems and live game design, with the ability to give high-quality feedback
- Clear, empathetic communicator with excellent stakeholder management skills
- Experience shipping features in live service, MMO, sandbox, or similarly complex products
- A leadership mindset focused on enabling others and team outcomes, not individual ownership
- Bonus Experience: Familiarity with EVE Online, sandbox games, or player-driven economies
- The challenge of working on ambitious projects with amazingly smart and creative co-workers
- A multicultural work environment that encourages growth, creativity and innovation
- Double work station setup and flexible work environment
- An active fun division that hosts regular events
- An excellent canteen that offers a weekly breakfast and lunch menu as well as drinks and snacks
- Discretionary quarterly and annual performance sharing plan
- Annual sports grant
- A mobile phone as well as a mobile usage package
- Home internet
- A conditional monthly transportation grant
- Work environment that focuses on employee well-being
- On-site doctor, free of charge as well as other on-site services at a discounted price
- Relocation Package
Please submit your application in English.