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Game Development Full-time Remote

Game Director / Potential Co-founder.

Experienced Game Director sought for early-stage MMO-RPG development, with a focus on gameplay design, team leadership, and prototyping.

Experience

0–10 yrs

Location

Remote

United States

The Brief

TITLE

Game Director / Potential Co-founder

TEAM

Game Development

TYPE

Full-time

POSTED

Nov 10, 2026

JOB ID

01a1c5b5

Game Design Team Leadership Game Development Game Production Multiplayer Game Design Unreal Engine Budget Management Project Management

Game Director / Potential Co-founder — Mankind

Remote · Equity-based · No salary at this stage

About Mankind

Mankind is an early-stage first-person science-fiction MMO-RPG looter-shooter. We’re in the discovery phase, shaping the world, story, visual identity, and core gameplay. Our next milestone is a focused playable prototype that tests how combat, exploration, discovery, and loot work together.

The role

We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Game Director to work directly with the founder. You’ll help decide what the first playable experience should prove, turn that into a realistic development plan, and contribute directly to prototyping and playtesting.

For the right person, the role could develop into a co-founder partnership with shared responsibility for the game and the studio. Equity, responsibilities, and decision-making authority would be agreed together.

What you’ll work on

  • Set gameplay priorities and define the scope of the first playable mission.

  • Prototype or help implement combat, encounters, level layouts, and loot systems.

  • Lead playtests and use the results to decide what to improve, simplify, or cut.

  • Guide contributors across design, programming, art, and narrative.

  • Identify the skills and resources needed to reach the next milestone.

What we’re looking for

  • Released games or strong playable projects that show what you personally designed, built, or led.

  • Hands-on experience prototyping gameplay in a game engine.

  • Experience guiding a small team and making scope decisions with limited time and resources.

  • Clear communication in English and the ability to collaborate remotely.

  • Experience with first-person shooters, action RPGs, multiplayer games, or loot and progression systems is a plus.

How to apply

Share your CV or professional profile and links to one or two relevant games or playable projects. Explain what you personally contributed and describe one development decision you owned. Include your earliest start date, weekly availability, time zone, and interest in exploring a co-founder partnership.

This is an equity-based opportunity with no salary at this stage.

About the company

Mankind

Project M is an early-stage first-person science-fiction MMO-RPG looter-shooter set in a universe where humanity is rebuilding after a devastating war. The vision combines combat, exploration, and loot progression with hidden missions and encounters with distinct human and alien factions.

We’re currently in the discovery phase, shaping the story, visual identity, and core gameplay. Our next milestone is a focused playable prototype that tests how combat, exploration, and loot work together.Project M is an early-stage first-person science-fiction MMO-RPG looter-shooter set in a universe where humanity is rebuilding after a devastating war. The vision combines combat, exploration, and loot progression with hidden missions and encounters with distinct human and alien factions.

We’re currently in the discovery phase, shaping the story, visual identity, and core gameplay. Our next milestone is a focused playable prototype that tests how combat, exploration, and loot work together