Our Values

The Game Band is dedicated to making games that reflect the diverse world we live in, which means fostering an environment and community that reflects our world too. We hold ourselves to a high standard when it comes to ensuring our company is an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming place to work.

The Role

The Game Band is seeking a Product Designer to design interfaces for an absurdist, browser-based, fantasy baseball experience: Blaseball. Using the principles of UX and the tools of UI design, you will work with the design and development teams to distill game mechanics into beautiful, usable, and compelling interfaces.

As a product designer you will:

Work with the game design team to shape gameplay ideas into their final rendered form
Work within an art-directed design system, creating a consistent aesthetic across the surface area of the game
Iterate on features via mock-ups and prototypes in a tight feedback loop with team members and stakeholders
Work with the development team to adapt your designs for implementation, and support them in refining existing live features

What success looks like:

You take ownership over the visual quality and consistency of the game
You proactively work with game designers to understand the intent of their ideas so you can render them accurately (and ideally participate in evolving the feature itself!)
You can cycle between a variety of processes and tools depending on the nature of a project, making judgement calls about the most effective approach to distilling a given problem
You’re confident working independently as an advocate for the user experience, and communicating those principles to other stakeholders

Requirements:

Strong grounding in the fundamentals of layout, typography, and color
The ability to clearly articulate your design reasoning in verbal and written form
The ability to produce high fidelity, polished interfaces
Experience with UX and interaction design concepts and methodologies
Experience designing interfaces for both mobile and desktop
Advanced knowledge of a visual design tool (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD)

Nice to Haves:

Advanced knowledge of Figma specifically
A strong prototyping background, you know how to move beyond static mock-ups to create high fidelity interactive experiences
Experience prototyping in code, and with web development technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, React) in general
An abiding love for the medium of games!

How to Apply:

To apply, email us your resume and feel free to include any details about yourself that you'd like to share. We are accepting applications ongoing as of right now but check back frequently for deadlines and updates. As we grow we will be posting new positions, and we will try to respond to as many applicants as we can.

Who we are

The Game Band is a fully remote studio, currently making the popular internet sensation / cultural event Blaseball. Previously, TGB launched Where Cards Fall, winner of the Apple Design Award in 2020.

With Blaseball seeing viral success, TGB is excited to grow the team! We are hiring a number of key roles, looking for folks who will take ownership building systems and teams that will ensure a bright future for Blaseball.

If you aren’t familiar with Blaseball that’s ok; Blaseball is an absurdist, player-driven, browser-based fantasy “baseball” experience. It’s a simplistic simulation of a sport, where players can view, bet on, and contort the league’s rules via weekly elections. People Make Games has a great explainer if you want to learn more.‍

Our Goals

Continue to grow Blaseball’s player base in a sustainable way
Continue to explore themes of democracy, community, and collaboration
Expand Blaseball beyond a browser-based experience
Iterate on ethical and interesting ways to generate revenue while keeping the game accessible and available to everyone‍

What is it like to work on Blaseball?

Blaseball is Live in a way that maybe no other product is. We ship a whole new season, taking into account fan feedback and mobilization, and implementing new features and systems to drive the meta-story forward in real time.

For the first era of Blaseball, this cadence was extreme, so in the future we are designing a more sustainable cadence for the fans and ourselves.

We want to be very clear with applicants that they will not be expected to work 7 days a week. Just because Blaseball is online, doesn’t mean we have to be.

For technical / coding positions: it’s possible that at key times you will need to work Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, due to the natural cadence of Blaseball. We occasionally have to set up the dominos over the weekend, so the next season (week) can play out. In these cases you will be allowed to, and indeed forced to, take a “weekend” during the middle of the week.‍

What benefits do you offer?

100% employer paid health, dental, and vision insurance
401k plan
Flexible hours
Remote friendly
Unlimited PTO

Thank you for considering The Game Band! Blaseball has an incredibly diverse and welcoming community, and we’re building a strong, diverse team to support it. We highly encourage you to apply. Even if you're not sure that you qualify, please contact us, we'd love to hear from you.

Play Ball,

The Game Band