About the role
Role Overview
Fenris Creations is seeking a Lead Game Designer for the EVE Online design team in Reykjavík. This is primarily a leadership role focused on mentorship, communication, and enabling designers to deliver impactful gameplay and systems within a complex, long-running live service environment.
Department and Employment Details
- Department: Game Design
- Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Location: Reykjavík
- Workplace Type: Hybrid
What You Will Do
- 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.
What We Are Looking For
- 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.
What We Can Offer You
- 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.
About Fenris Creations
Fenris Creations is an independent video game developer headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland, with studios in London and Shanghai. Founded in 1997, the studio is renowned for creating deep, player-driven virtual worlds that connect communities across the globe. The studio rose to international acclaim with the launch of EVE Online in 2003, an MMORPG that redefined emergent gameplay and player-driven storytelling. The company is committed to pushing boundaries through ambitious game development, technological innovation, and immersive online experiences. As of May 2026, the company is once again independently owned.
Hiring Process
- Screening Call
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Assessments
- Creative and Production Interview
- Design Interview
- Relocation and Benefits Chat
- Offer Stage
- Hired