Lead Game Designer

Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with 283 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

We're a group of developers, artists, and storytellers that make games full of wonder, danger, and humor. Everyone at our studio, whether an industry vet or new voice impacts each game through collaborative feedback, mutual respect, and creative empowerment. If you want to make games that leave a meaningful impact on players: we want to hear from you.

We're looking for new teammates who deeply care about the work they do, the stories they tell, and the people they create with. As part of the Netflix team, we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

GAME DESIGN AT NIGHT SCHOOL

At Night School designers invent new ways to experience interactive stories. Our studio’s goal is to create world-class narrative games, and that all begins with a strong, actionable design.

ABOUT THE JOB

In our studio, designers bridge innovative gameplay with our ability to tell amazing stories. This involves working closely with narrative, writing, art, and engineering to bring these ideas to life. This role will require a deep understanding of not only high-level design principles; but of strong implementation, cinematic techniques, and storytelling integration. As a Lead Designer, you work with the Game Director to define a game’s design vision, take ownership over the design process for the game, and get your hands dirty with content implementation during production.

Responsibilities Include

• Strong collaboration with cross-discipline game and studio leadership

• Partnering closely with Narrative to create best-in-class story rich designs

• Owning various level designs all the way from greybox to final

• Planning, writing, and executing on project goals for the design team

• Creating and maintaining design documentation

Skills & Requirements

• 10+ years of game design work with Lead experience highly preferred

• 3+ shipped games as a hands-on game designer

• Experience implementing gameplay content using proprietary and industry-standard tools

• Strong game design and communication skills

• Strong Unity skills and fluency

• Familiarity with the language of cinematic storytelling

• Familiarity with programming and logic concepts

About You

• Passionate about storytelling, video games, and video game development.

• Enthusiastic about innovation and exploring groundbreaking design ideas to tell stories in new ways within games.

• Strengths include being goal-oriented, conscientious, tenacious, thoughtful, meticulous, organized, and being both a great listener and communicator.

• Self-starter that works well autonomously and willing to find solutions, be curious, and ask questions when needed.

• Guides a team to achieve their goals from a “bottom up” rather than “top down” management approach.

• Filters team creative ideas, ambitions, and goals through the lens of strategy and pragmatic next steps.

• Proficient at interpersonal communication, negotiation, and diplomacy.

• Receptive to and skilled at giving and receiving critique and feedback.

• Lifelong learner who wants to bring experience and knowledge to the project and team every day.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $90,000 - $600,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits .

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We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.