Senior Manager, Game Design - Twilight Towers (Soft Launch)

About the role

Fortis is on a mission to create games where players truly belong — and our newest title, Twilight Towers, is now in soft launch. As Senior Manager, Game Design, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the evolution of the game as it moves toward global release. You’ll combine hands-on design leadership with strategic oversight, guiding a multidisciplinary team to build features, systems, and experiences that connect fun, depth, and business performance.

Partnering closely with the Game Director, you’ll transform high-level goals into clear, actionable design and product plans — owning major pillars of the game from concept to live operations. You’ll write specs, tune systems, mentor designers, and raise the quality bar across the team’s output. Whether balancing the economy, refining live events, or designing new player experiences, you’ll be accountable for delivering impact that players feel and the business measures.

This is an opportunity to lead from the front — blending creativity and analytical thinking in a live, fast-moving environment where your craft, leadership, and decisions will directly shape the future of Twilight Towers.

What you’ll achieve

You will partner with the Game Director and other creative leadership to lead the design of game features, systems, and pillars by:

• Distilling high-level objectives and vision into clear, concise, and thorough design & product specifications to cross-functional teams.
• Setting the goals, driving the direction, and holding the quality bar for a cross-discipline subteam of game developers.
• Leveling up the design output of the team by providing design direction and feedback on the team’s output.
• Managing and growing designers through coaching and mentorship. 
• Coordinating results across disciplines, pods, and leadership levels within the team.
• Building expertise in our genre, target audience, and feature set, and sharing learnings across the team and company.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Strong design sensibilities across a range of domains.  Fluency in systems, content, and experiential design, with deep expertise in at least one area.
• A firm understanding of fundamental design principles, metagame systems, game economies, and player psychology that enables you to design from first principles.
• Holistic view of the product and business; being able to problem solve against target KPIs with specific system designs.
• Ability to synthesize feedback from team members, user playtests, and other validation efforts into actionable product insights and rapidly iterate on designs.
• Clear communication and vision setting to align others around your objectives, build positive momentum, and resolve conflict when necessary.
• Proven experience in games as a service and live operations – demonstrating a clear vision of excellence and the ability to establish effective design processes, workflows, and tooling.
• Strong leadership and management skills, adept at developing design teams through mentorship and remote management.
• Ability to drive impact and get things done while balancing leadership and management responsibilities. 
• Extensive experience with merge or tower defense genres preferred.