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Our team is passionate, creative, and collaborative and we’re looking for someone equally enthusiastic about games to join our growing team.\nWe’re a small but fast growing, friendly team that values creativity, openness, and personal growth. Whether you’re helping various departments or talking about your favourite horror game, you’ll be part of a supportive environment where passion and curiosity are celebrated. You’ll be joining a small but ambitious team where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your development truly matters.\n About the role:\nWe are looking for an organised and experienced Senior Game Designer to help define and expand content updates for Phasmophobia. You will work closely with the Game Director to turn creative direction into fully realised gameplay features and systems, taking them from concept through to release.\nYou will take ownership of gameplay experiences across live updates, helping shape content played by millions of players worldwide. As a senior member of the team, you’ll collaborate closely with art, audio, narrative, production, QA, and programming to ensure features deliver on gameplay quality, atmosphere, and technical feasibility.\nThis role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, iterative live-service environment and is passionate about multiplayer horror game design.\nThis role is hybrid based at our office in Southampton. At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nWork closely with the Game Director to develop and expand gameplay features, mechanics, and systems.\nTake ownership of feature design from concept through implementation, iteration, and release.\nCreate and maintain clear, detailed, and actionable design documentation for cross-discipline teams.\nFlesh out gameplay systems, mechanics, progression, balancing, UX flows, edge cases, and technical considerations.\nIdentify gameplay, scope, UX, and implementation risks early and work proactively with stakeholders to resolve them.\nCollaborate with production to ensure design work aligns with project scope, priorities, and milestone expectations.\nWork closely with programmers to improve designer workflows, tools, and pipelines.\nConfidently use Unity Editor tools to tune gameplay, implement content, and iterate on features hands-on.\nCollaborate with departmental stakeholders to ensure features are achievable within technical and production constraints.\nGather and interpret internal and community feedback to improve player experience, gameplay readability, and feature quality.\nPlay and test new updates regularly to ensure features meet gameplay, usability, and quality expectations.\nRequirements:\nAt least 1 shipped PC or Console game as a credited Game Designer with a strong portfolio.\nStrong experience designing multiplayer, co-op, horror, survival, or atmospheric gameplay systems.\nExcellent communication skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.\nStrong understanding of gameplay systems, balancing, progression, pacing, and player psychology.\nExperience writing and maintaining detailed design documentation.\nA collaborative mindset and confidence working across multiple disciplines.\nExpert understanding of Phasmophobia and a passion for horror games.\nAbility to take ownership of features and drive them through iteration and delivery.\nAutomatically have the right to work in the UK.\nNice To Have:\nExperience working on live-service or regularly updated games.\nExperience working on a VR game.\nExperience using Unity Editor.\nExperience with technical implementation, scripting, or designer tooling workflows.\nExperience using Jira, Confluence, or similar development tools.\nExperience analysing player feedback, telemetry, or gameplay metrics.\nBenefits & Perks\nCompetitive salary\n5% Employer Match Pension Scheme\nAnnual performance bonus + Company performance bonus\nWeekly free team lunches - 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