Lead Game Designer

2 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As Lead Game Designer at Hutch, you'll lead the design process for their flagship title, F1 Clash, driving feature development, engagement loops, and meta experiences. Responsibilities include leading the design team, setting design standards, mentoring other designers, crafting new features, and tuning game economy. You'll leverage data insights to evolve existing features and ensure a high-quality player experience. This role requires deep experience in mobile, free-to-play game design, expertise in game design principles, and a proven ability to create engaging gameplay systems across multiple live-service titles.
Must have:
  • Deep mobile F2P game design experience
  • Expert knowledge of game design principles
  • Ability to craft engaging gameplay systems
  • Lead and mentor design teams
  • Data-driven decision making
Perks:
  • 4-Day Work Week
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working
  • Excellent salary
  • Private health care
  • Enhanced Maternity/Paternity leave
  • Mental health initiatives
  • Learning & development support
  • Free snacks & drinks
  • Social events

Job Details

Description

Lead Game Designer | London | Full time

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.  

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way. 

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Lead Game Designer - F1 Clash

Hutch is looking for an experienced Game Designer to accelerate the growth of our flagship motorsports title - F1 Clash. As Lead Game Designer, you will be responsible for the features, loops, and meta experiences that build the habitual engagement to make our games endure, while managing and guiding our design team to new levels of success.

Responsibilities 

As a lead you’ll be responsible for the leadership of design standards, people, and the craft of game design within the F1 Clash team.

  • Lead the design process and seek methods for continuous improvement
  • Set the standard for systemic, meta, and social design quality
  • Mentor other designers in the systems design process and craft
  • Manage the design team, ensuring high standards of design quality and team morale
  • Craft new features and systems to boost engagement and conversion
  • Guide the tuning and balance of the wider game economy to provide the highest quality player experience and amplify product performance
  • Evolve and iterate on existing features or systems leveraging data insight

Requirements

You’ve got the experience to jump in, make an impact on both the products and people at Hutch.

  • Deep, multi-year experience in mobile, free-to-play game design
  • Proven ability to craft engaging gameplay, meta and social systems across multiple live service titles on mobile
  • Expert knowledge of game design principles, player psychology and the economics of play
  • Free-to-Play evangelist with a finger on the pulse of the market
  • Strong ability to create mock-ups/flows/prototypes to showcase new concepts & ideas to a wide variety of audiences
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
  • Knowledge of various ideation methodologies that leverage group creativity
  • Quality communication and cross functional working standards
  • Get it done attitude, working in engine, sheets, or anywhere that's needed
  • Line management experience

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;

  • Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote working 2 days per week
  • Excellent salary
  • Private health care
  • Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
  • Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
  • Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).

Our Values

  • Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
  • Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
  • Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
  • Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
  • Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Please see Hutch Privacy Policy for details on how Hutch uses your personal data.

Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/

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About The Company

Hutch is a dynamic games studio based in Central London. Founded on a wealth of traditional game development experience, blending a bunch of people who are talented and passionate about making the best free to play games. Our goal is to create the best racing games for mobile. We believe small, focused and empowered teams build the best games and we work hard to maintain an open, transparent and self-determined culture. Founded in 2011, we have released 8 games including Smash Cops, MMX Racing, Hot Wheels:Race Off and MMX Hill Climb with over 300 million players across the world.

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