embedding-vc - Founding Game Designer

• Shipped at least one game or interactive product where you owned core design decisions: progression, pacing, systems, or economy design. • A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates systems thinking: you can show how you designed rules that produced emergent player behaviour, not just authored fixed content. • The ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on playtesting, not just theory. • Strong design communication skills. You can write a clear design doc, argue for a mechanic, and explain your reasoning to engineers and non-designers without hand-waving. • You're comfortable with: • Being the first designer. There's no existing design language, style guide, or established framework. You'll be making foundational calls with incomplete information and revising them as you learn. • Providing a strong input on the visual side. You have a strong visual eye and opinions about art direction • Designing for an audience that isn't you. Our players are 6–10 years old. You don't need a background in child development, but you need genuine curiosity about how kids think, play, and learn. • Working with generative systems. Much of Pebble's content is procedural and AI-driven, which means you're designing constraints, rules, and possibility spaces rather than hand-crafting every encounter. • Experience with Godot, or any 2D game engine's design/prototyping tools. • Familiarity with educational game design, edutainment, or serious games. • Interest in or exposure to AI/LLM-powered interactive experiences. • Experience designing for young children or family audiences. • Genuinely optional: • Charizard card in mint condition to add to our cabinet of curiosities • WORK CONDITIONS • Salary up to 80k-110k GBP depending on experience • Strong equity component • In person work from London Shoreditch, open to remote for the right candidate