System / Balance Designer

Nugem Studio develops TBH: Task Bar Hero, a hack-and-slash idle RPG. Our goal is to deliver the fun of endless growth, and we're looking for a designer who can build tight, data-driven growth balance and new content.

• Designing new content systems (combat, items, and other new systems)
• Balancing difficulty, items, and growth for new content
• Designing and managing balance data using tools like Excel
• Implementing and validating content in collaboration with art, programming, and other teams

• 5+ years of hands-on game design experience (or equivalent ability)
• Experience developing live-service content in the RPG genre
• Understanding of the varied content and event structures in hack-and-slash or idle RPG genres
• Strong understanding of RPG growth systems (combat, stats, items) and the ability to turn them into data (e.g. in Excel)
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with other disciplines (art, programming)

• Significant playtime in TBH: Task Bar Hero
• Significant playtime in hack-and-slash or idle RPG games (development experience also a plus)
• Heavy Steam user or experience developing Steam games
• Comfortable using LLMs for design work (experience with AI agents like Claude Code or Codex is a plus)
• Experience leading a part or working at a senior level in a similar role