Game Design Lead / Director

This is a remote position.

About Wooster Games

Wooster Games is the studio behind Animal Company, a free-to-play VR co-op adventure game. Within a year of launch, Animal Company (AC) became the top-selling game of 2025 on Meta’s platform, reaching 1M+ monthly active users, a 400K+ Discord community, and a global fanbase that has generated 1.5B+ organic views across social media. At Wooster Games, we believe digital entertainment should be more social, more physical, and creatively empowering. As we scale our experiences to new platforms, we’re partnering with leading tech and entertainment companies to shape the future of interactive play.

Role 

As we expand AC and build brand‑new titles on new platforms, we’re looking for a Game Design Lead/Director who loves moving fast with a small, passionate team and thrives in an environment where ideas get tested immediately—not six months later.  ***We have intentionally opened this role at multiple levels (Lead - Director) in recognition that experience, career progression, and title are not always good indicators of creativity, skill, and ability.

This Game Design role is for someone who’s obsessed with:

• Virality and social-first design
  

• Fast prototyping and aggressive iteration
  

• Drop‑in multiplayer, party‑game energy, and systems that spark laughter, chaos, and shareable moments
  

• Working hands‑on with the team to ship early, test constantly, and refine based on what players actually do—not what we assume
  

You’ll set the creative vision for our upcoming Steam PC projects, and shape the creative identity of our next Steam PC experiences—especially around party‑game energy, drop‑in multiplayer, social systems, and level design that sets players up for hilarious, high‑chaos encounters..

What You’ll Do

• Define and evolve the game’s creative direction—tone, vibe, world, characters, and the “why it’s fun” core.
  

• Drive rapid prototyping: take small ideas to playable tests fast, iterate even faster, and kill what isn’t working.
  

• Drive level design direction, ensuring maps, spaces, and encounters naturally create memorable, viral moments players love talking about.
  

• Champion social/party‑game mechanics, “drop‑in/instant fun” loops, and systems that help players make their own moments.
  

• Ensure every feature and level supports the “easy to play, fun immediately, impossible not to share” ethos.
  

• Work closely with design, art, engineering, and marketing to push social features, shareability, and fan-favorite ideas forward.
  

• Tune direction constantly based on real player feedback, playtests, data, and community sentiment.
  

Team Leadership

• Collaborate hands‑on with designers and artists—testing ideas daily, jamming on mechanics, and pushing toward clarity.
  

• Set simple, actionable creative targets your team can hit quickly.
  

• Help coach and grow a high‑velocity, low‑ego creative culture.
  

• Actively use (and encourage) AI‑powered tools that help the team ship faster and experiment more.
  

Live Ops, Performance & Growth

• Partner with leadership to make sure the experience grows in the right direction—mechanically, socially, and creatively.
  

• Keep features lean, impactful, and tightly tuned to player behavior.
  

• Work with the broader team to ensure monetization fits the social/party nature of the experience.
  

• Stay on top of trends in social games, party games, UGC systems, and online multiplayer behaviors.
  

Benefits