Game Design Director

6 Months ago • 8 Years +
Game Design

Job Description

CCP Games seeks a Game Design Director for EVE Frontier, a space survival MMO. This role requires leading game design across the entire pipeline, from initial vision to implementation, ensuring alignment with the game's ambitious goals. Responsibilities include mentoring a design team, curating the open-economy sandbox, managing staged deliveries, and creating compelling player experiences in a sci-fi setting. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in game design leadership, particularly in MMOs or open-world games, and experience in live service games. Experience in creating immersive sci-fi experiences and understanding of player-driven economies is essential. The role involves working with advanced in-house technology and blockchain possibilities.
Must Have:
  • Strong game design leadership
  • MMO/open-world experience
  • Adaptation to live service
  • Vision articulation
  • Excellent communication
  • Sci-fi experience
  • Economy understanding
  • Advocacy for design
Perks:
  • Dual workstation setup
  • Flexible work environment
  • Active fun club
  • Excellent canteen
  • Performance-sharing plans
  • Sports grant
  • Mobile phone & data
  • Home internet
  • Green-commute grant
  • On-site doctor
  • Relocation package

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CCP Games is seeking a Game Design Director for EVE Frontier, a groundbreaking open-economy, space survival MMO. This role demands a versatile leader capable of translating creative vision and product needs into concrete game design deliveries across a continuously evolving game landscape.

Your tasks

  • Develop and oversee the entire game design pipeline, from product needs and creative vision through to implementation, ensuring alignment with the game’s ambitious vision.
  • Mentor and lead a team of designers, promoting and supporting innovative and curious thinking and ensuring that skills development aligns with project needs.
  • Work with the design team to curate and grow an intricate open, economy sandbox, where due to its single-shard foundation, every change will influence all aspects of the game environment and player interactions.
  • Effectively manage staged deliveries throughout our production process by segmenting the overarching vision into valuable, actionable deliverables for players.
  • Drive the creation of compelling player experiences, focusing on sci-fi fantasy fulfillment that engages and excites a diverse player base.

Your profile

  • Must-have: A strong track record in game design leadership, demonstrated through a portfolio of successful projects—ideally within MMO, open-world, sandbox, or economy-driven games.
  • Exceptional ability to adapt and innovate outside of a traditional AAA game development environment for a live service game.
  • Be able to articulate the game design vision for different parts of the game through diverse mediums (decks, user stories, wiki pages, etc.).
  • Ability to go from vision and strategy to tactics, by translating vision into tangible deliverables.
  • Excellent communication and team management skills, capable of inspiring and leading teams through complex, long-term projects.
  • Experience in creating immersive, engaging player experiences in a sci-fi setting, by having a touch for the holistic experience.
  • Eagerness to work with the most intricate and advanced player-driven game economy in the world.
  • Enthusiasm for science fiction, openness to understand what web3/blockchain can do for the player experience, and understanding of the up-and downside of in-house tech/engine/tools.
  • Be a strong advocate for the design discipline at the studio, helping share, grow and increase the value of this important discipline.

About EVE Frontier

EVE Frontier is a Hardcore Survival MMO set in a galaxy filled with thousands of star systems. In a massive online sandbox, players awake on the Frontier, a desolate region of space warped by three hyper-massive black holes at the dark heart of the universe. Amidst the crumbling ruins of a long-dead civilization, feral drones destroy and consume what little remains. Upgrade your ship, fortify your base, and fight for survival in a world where every decision means life or death.

To learn more, visit EVE Frontier .

What we will offer you

  • The inspiring challenge of working on a pioneering project in cooperation with amazingly talented and ambitious coworkers
  • A multicultural work environment that encourages growth, creativity, and innovation
  • Dual workstation setup and flexible work environment
  • An active fun club that hosts regular company events
  • An excellent canteen that offers a weekly breakfast and lunch menu as well as drinks and snacks
  • Discretionary quarterly and annual performance-sharing plans
  • Annual sports grant
  • A mobile phone and a data plan package
  • Home Internet
  • A conditional monthly green-commute grant
  • A work environment that focuses on employee well-being
  • On-site doctor, free of charge along with other on-site services at a discounted price
  • Relocation Package

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