Game Designer - Cofounder

The General Intelligence Company of New York•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At General Intelligence, we’re building highly-capable autonomous agents for startups. Our goal is to enable the one-person, one-billion-dollar company. Our product, Cofounder, enables entrepreneurs to start and run companies. Using it should feel more like a company-building game where users coordinate agents, unlock roadmap nodes, run missions, build artifacts, grow departments, and make revenue go up. We’re looking for a game designer to make Cofounder more fun, intuitive, and strategically deep. This is a game designer role for someone with real strategy game taste. You should be familiar with the grand strategy genre as well as gameplay loops involving the genre. You understand why games like Civilization, Stellaris, Factorio, StarCraft, RimWorld, XCOM, or EVE become addictive: macro loops, micro loops, compounding strategy, progression, complexity, constraints, feedback, and reward. Your job is to translate those instincts into product.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in game design, game systems design, or gameplay design.
Worked in the gaming industry, ideally on strategy games, simulation games, live-service games, management games, MMOs, RPGs, or other systems-heavy products.
Shipped player-facing gameplay systems, not just managed tasks or roadmaps.
Deeply understand strategy games: macro loops, micro loops, progression, pacing, compounding systems, tutorials, rewards, and retention.
Know how to balance fun, clarity, pacing, and utility.
Care about product quality and craft.
High agency.
Have aura. If you don’t know what this means, it’s not a fit.

Responsibilities

Design gameplay loops for Cofounder: missions, goals, departments, progression, maps, unlocks, rewards, and recurring user actions.
Translate these gameplay loops into actual direct product surface for our users.
Turn “run your company” into clear, intuitive game mechanics users understand.
Build compounding strategy into the product: decisions should matter, systems should interact, and progress should create new options.
Make agent workflows feel fun, fast, and rewarding instead of abstract or confusing.
Work with design and engineering to spec, ship, measure, and improve gameplay-driven product experiences.
Study user behavior to optimize and identify loops.
Push Cofounder toward the feeling of a great strategy game while keeping it useful for real companies.