Senior Game Designer – F2P Mobile Games – London – Permanent

Platforms: F2P Mobile

OPM’s client is a leading mobile games studio based in Central London, who are looking for a talented designer to assist in creating exciting and innovative mobile games.

The successful candidate will lead a small team in creating the vision and taking ownership for their new games throughout development, alongside supporting to the design of extra features for existing games.

Requirements:

• Professional experience in all aspects of production design, documentation, communication, implementation, balancing, and review and feedback
• Experience in as a Game Designer, having shipped various F2P mobile titles.
• Professional experience leading multi-disciplinary game teams
• Ability to implement and balance using industry standard and internal tools
• Professional experience developing, launching, and supporting live games
• Responsive to feedback and constructive criticism, and keen to learn and apply new skills and ideas
• Passionate about the gaming industry, particularly F2P mobile games
• Deep understanding of mobile F2P market trends, games, and mechanics
• Great interest and belief in data-informed design to support and validate intuition

Responsibilities:

• Work with key stakeholders to recognise potential market opportunities, and determine and agree the vision of the game
• Convey your design clearly and work together with the rest of the team
• Prototype key game elements to prove out the design’s USPs
• Develop and maintain design documentation to define game direction and scope
• Define and maintain the product roadmap and backlog, and be the driving force behind the team
• Collaborate with producers to determine production scope priorities and make alterations as needed
• Review and feedback on content and features throughout development, working with the team to regularly meet the quality expected
• Continue to iterate the design throughout development in response to feedback, and data from user testing and analytics
• Balance and tune key features and the game economy
• Harmonise with marketing to ensure the products vision is followed through in the marketing assets and other promotional materials
• Design additional features to help existing live titles
• Stay on top of trends in mobile game design across a variety of genres and markets

Desired Skills (good to have):

• Professional experience with Unity
• Professional experience in concept and pitch development

To apply or for further information about the role please contact Emma on +44 1206214415 or mail a copy of your CV to officemanager@opmjobs.com

Tagged as: f2p, Game Design, Unity