Senior Game Designer – AAA Game – North, UK – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Our client is one of the UK's most prolific and secure independent game developers with a talented team spread across 4 Studios. It’s an exciting time to be part of their team; they are growing across all their studios to support a very bright and busy future.

They are seeking a talented Senior Game Designer to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for a Designer specialising in holistic game design, feature ownership and implementation through product development.

Responsibilities:

• Be the vision holder for multiple features which span the game
• Strive for quality and innovation while adhering to the core vision of the game
• End to end feature ownership; from inception through to game release
• Form design goals, frameworks and success metrics for each feature you produce
• Create high level presentation materials for pitching concepts to product stakeholders
• Produce low level specifications for feature costing and production schematics
• Ability to solve complex problems using game design theory and the psychology of play
• Designing and modelling complex game systems based on high-level concepts
• Review and adjust designs based on user testing and telemetry data
• Create features which supports business and product goals which also conform to contemporary design methodologies
• Design content that conforms to per discipline style guides and can be contextualised to the game fiction in multiple ways
• Implement the design using industry-standard and in-house tools
• Mentor junior design team members, review and feedback on their work
• Communicate design philosophies, the game vision and feature goals across the wider team

Requirements:

• Proven track record of designing AAA games from product inception through to release
• Ability to evangelise the game’s design to multi-discipline teams and across the organisation
• Rich knowledge of game theory and the science behind the design
• Understanding of a product’s user base and player behaviours
• Significant experience designing and balancing complex systems for AAA games
• Empathise with different disciplines to form an aligned and sympathetic concept
• Ability to lead multiple feature teams of a cross-disciplinary makeup
• Create pipelines and processes which controls and aligns feature development
• Deep understanding of game design best practices

Beneficial requirements:

• Shipped a AAA title using UE3/4
• Knowledge of UE4 Blueprint Scripting
• Understanding of Platform Holder functionality and usage within product
• Ability to create off platform features which drive product intrigue and longevity

Tagged as: Game Design