Principal Game Designer - D&D Universes Beyond
About the job
- At least 8 years of experience in game design, product innovation, or related roles, with proven ownership of game design direction across long-form print products.
- Strong understanding of Dungeons & Dragons and roleplaying game systems, including how mechanics, content, progression, narrative, social dynamics, and player choices shape engagement.
- Ability to integrate audience research, segmentation, playtesting, and market insights into design direction.
- Experience working with partners, creative collaborators, or licensed properties, adapting narrative and mechanics to established worlds, brands, and approval needs.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills for aligning leadership, partners, and cross-functional teams around creative concepts, recommendations, tradeoffs, and design rationale.
- People management experience, including mentoring designers, giving feedback, supporting career growth, and building healthy team practices.
- Shape the design vision for new play experiences, product formats, and audience opportunities with senior leadership.
- Explore how D&D core principles can adapt to different worlds, genres, play styles, and form factors while preserving the heart of the game.
- Establish game design practices and standards, helping teams move from ambiguity to focused creative direction.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure each experience captures the spirit of its world, serves its audience, and delivers on the creative vision.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of game designers, setting a high bar for craft, collaboration, and player-centered thinking.
- Step into hands-on design development, leading critical initiatives and helping teams find clarity, momentum, and creative solutions.
- Broad familiarity across the gaming category, including tabletop games, roleplaying games, board games, and video games.
- A love of pop culture.
About the company
Hasbro designs and sells toys and games for children, families and adult fans, and licenses its brands for entertainment and consumer products. Its portfolio includes Transformers, Nerf and Play-Doh, while its Wizards of the Coast business publishes Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons. The company sells physical products through retailers and its own online stores, develops digital games, and earns royalties when partners use its characters and game worlds. It also makes products based on licensed franchises such as Marvel and Star Wars, combining its own brands with rights secured from other owners. Founded in 1923, Hasbro is headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
East Providence, Rhode Island
Founded
1923
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Hasbro pays for community service: employees receive four paid volunteer hours each month.
- Learning has structured support: Hasbro gives employees quarterly development conversations and access to third-party academic programs.
- Demand is expanding: July 2026 results reported second-quarter revenue growth of 16%, led by Wizards and Digital Gaming.
What critics are saying
- Job security faces ongoing restructuring: Hasbro's cost program includes further workforce reductions and reallocations.
- Production depends on outside factories: most Hasbro toys and games are manufactured by third parties.
- Game development bets lost value: Hasbro reported a $56 million digital-games impairment in July 2026.
What makes Hasbro unique
- Collector demand gates production: HasLab projects proceed only after reaching their minimum number of backers.
- Wizards builds store communities: its Play Network equips retailers with Magic event scheduling and promotional resources.
- Hasbro connects tabletop play online: D&D Beyond Maps tracks encounters and shares players' dice rolls.
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Benefits
- Hybrid Work Options