Game Design Director

2 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Product Madness seeks an insightful Game Design Director to lead their Innovation Lab. This role involves market trend analysis, data-driven concept development, and user-centric solution creation. The director will guide a team of Product Owners, collaborate with leadership, and ensure high-quality game development. Responsibilities include innovation through market insight, data-driven concept development, leveraging a growth-hacker mindset, creative leadership, strategic collaboration, hands-on problem-solving, and project quality oversight. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in mobile game development (5+ as a Game Designer) with a proven track record of successful game launches.
Must have:
  • 10+ years in mobile game development (5+ as Game Designer)
  • Proven success in launching commercially successful mobile games
  • Strong understanding of user acquisition principles
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Proficiency with analytics tools and in-game economy systems

Job Details

We are looking for an insightful and innovative Head of Game design to join our Innovation Lab leadership team, helping to shape the future of mobile gaming. This role requires a strategic thinker with a growth-hacker mindset who can understand, anticipate, and act on market trends to develop high-potential game concepts. Reporting to the Head of Innovation Lab, you will be providing creative and practical guidance to solve user problems, optimize performance, and build commercially successful games.

Key Responsibilities

  • Innovation Through Market Insight: Monitor, analyze, and anticipate trends in the mobile gaming industry to drive internal innovation and identify game concepts with high growth potential.

  • Data-Driven Concept Development: Partner with Product Owners and game designers to find user-centric solutions that are informed by data. Act as a resource in interpreting player feedback, analytics, and UA performance metrics to refine and improve gameplay and design.

  • Growth-Hacker Mindset: Leverage a growth-hacker’s approach to user acquisition, recognizing and acting on opportunities to drive game growth through innovative concepts, agile strategies, and data-based decision-making.

  • Creative Leadership: Lead and support a team of four Product Owners, inspiring them to push creative boundaries while maintaining practical, data-driven design.

  • Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate with the Head of Innovation Lab and other leaders to shape the department’s direction, aligning game innovation with company goals and market demands.

  • Hands-On Problem Solving: Provide direct, hands-on support in making critical product decisions and pivoting when necessary to meet performance targets and user satisfaction.

  • Industry Awareness and Trend Spotting: Stay at the forefront of gaming trends, best practices in game design, and emerging user acquisition techniques to ensure our projects are cutting-edge and responsive to player needs.

  • Project Quality and Oversight: Ensure games meet high standards in design, usability, and engagement by overseeing timelines, milestones, and quality control.

  • Enterprise Mindset: Act as the ambassador and key liaison between the Innovation Lab and the broader Aristocrat business. Foster collaboration by engaging with the Consumer Insights team, other game and R&D  teams to identify synergies and drive cross-functional cooperation.

What We're Looking For

Requirements

  • Experience: 10+ years in mobile game development in creative or R&D roles. (5+ years as Game Designer)

  • Top-Grossing Track Record: Proven success in developing and launching commercially successful mobile games.

  • Growth-Hacker Mentality: Strong understanding of user acquisition principles, with an experimental approach to driving user growth and engagement.

  • Effective Communicator: Strong communication skills to articulate ideas, inspire teams, and advocate for innovative design solutions.

  • Technical Expertise: Proficiency with advanced analytics tools, UA dashboards, complex in-game economy systems, and mathematical modeling

Why Product Madness?

As part of the Aristocrat family, we share their mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play, with a world-class team who creates top-grossing, leading titles in the social casino genre, including Heart of Vegas, Lightning Link, Cashman Casino. 

With 800 team members across the globe, Product Madness is headquartered in London, with offices in Barcelona, Gdańsk, Lviv, Montreal and a remote team spanning the USA, making us a truly global powerhouse.

We live by our People First principle. Regardless of where, when, or how they work, our team members have opportunities to elevate their careers, and grow alongside us. We take pride in fostering an inclusive culture, where our people are encouraged to be their very best, every day.

But don’t just take our word for it. In 2024, we made the Global Inspiring Workplace Awards list, and won a bronze award at the Stevies for Great Employers in the ‘Employer of the Year - Media and Entertainment’ category.

So, what’s stopping you?

Our Values

  • People First

    We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.

  • MAD for More

    Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.

  • Champion Together
    We excel at what we do but yet remain humble and helpful to our teammates. We champion one another and hold each other to high standards without any egos.

  • Globally Inclusive

    We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.

  • Customer Focused

    We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.

    Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!

Travel Expectations

None

Additional Information

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

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About The Company

Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an ASX20 listed company and one of the world’s leading providers of gaming solutions. We’re licensed in over 300 jurisdictions and operate in over 90 countries around the world. We’re also proud to have a team of over 7000 employees that deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity and technology each day. We offer a diverse range of products and services including electronic gaming machines, social gaming and casino management systems, but it doesn’t stop there. Despite our global presence and exponential growth, we remain an ideas company at heart that is committed to delivering outstanding results for our customers and players and an unparalleled experience for our employees, who have the opportunity to grow, be inspired and be the best they can be.


Our values of Talent Unleashed, All About the Player, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen guide and inspire us to live our mission of bringing joy to life through the power of play – every day.  


Come and join us – let’s play!


𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘯 @𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵.𝘤𝘰𝘮, @𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮, @𝘱𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥.𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘰𝘳 @𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵.

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