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Lead Game Designer

Location
Reykjavík, Reykjavík, Iceland
Work arrangement
Hybrid
Job type
Full-time

About the role

Posted Aug 27, 2026

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.

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Location
Reykjavík, Reykjavík, Iceland
Workplace
Hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Team
Game Design
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CCP Games is a leading game developer praised for its artistry, technology and game design that facilitates emergent behaviour, empowering players with compelling means of self-expression. Founded in 1997, the company is on a mission to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life. CCP Games is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, and has additional studios in London and Shanghai.

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