Senior Director of Game Design

8 Minutes ago • 5 Years +
Game Design

Job Description

As a Senior Director of Game Design, you will lead a team of designers to create unforgettable gameplay experiences for Talking Tom & Friends titles. You will set high standards for design excellence, ensuring creative vision and quality. Beyond creative leadership, you will empower your team's growth, align goals, support individual development, and contribute to business success. This role involves setting department vision, leading a high-performing team, cooperating with cross-department teams, and driving project delivery.
Must Have:
  • Set clear Game Design department vision and goals
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of talented game designers
  • Cooperate with cross-department teams (product, UX, art, distribution)
  • Drive team to design and deliver projects for Talking Tom & Friends audience
  • Act as a source of support, knowledge, and experience for the game design team
  • Lead performance reviews and support professional development
  • Improve game design workflow and share knowledge
  • Keep up to date with mobile market trends and game design practices
  • Foster a culture of efficiency, innovation, and knowledge sharing
  • Enable team to improve development processes based on advancements
  • Identify hiring needs and drive the hiring process for new talent
  • Passion for mobile games
  • Creative, innovative mindset with strong logical and analytical thinking
  • Good understanding of player behaviors and motivations
  • Good understanding of mobile game trends, best practices, and technologies
  • Knowledge of Freemium/free-to-play (F2P) games
  • Excellent skills in team leadership, resource planning, communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution
  • 5+ years of experience as a game design team manager
  • 5+ years of experience as a game designer
Perks:
  • Employment for an indefinite period with a six-month probationary period
  • Diverse work with exciting daily challenges in a fun, relaxed environment
  • Participation in attractive projects
  • Development opportunities through training, seminars, and conferences
  • Choice of sport, fitness, educational, and entertainment activities outside of work
  • Healthy meals in the office
  • Flexible working hours
  • 24 days of paid vacation
  • Participation in a discretionary bonus plan
  • Christmas bonus (subject to internal policies)

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As a Director of Game Design, you’ll set the creative bar and lead a passionate team of designers in shaping unforgettable gameplay experiences across all Talking Tom & Friends titles. You’ll set and maintain the highest standards of design excellence, ensuring every game embodies creative vision and commitment to quality. Beyond creative leadership, you’ll empower your team to thrive by guiding their growth, aligning goals, supporting individual development, and contributing to business success. Ready to lead, inspire, and elevate the future of play? Let’s make it happen.

In this role you will:

  • Set clear Game Design department vision and goals that are aligned with company plans, target audience expectations, and market trends.
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of talented game designers.
  • Cooperate with cross-department teams including product managers, UX, game art, and distribution.
  • Drive the team to design and deliver projects that match the intended game experience for the Talking Tom & Friends target audience.
  • Act as a source of support, knowledge, and experience for the game design team.
  • Lead regular performance reviews, deliver constructive feedback, and actively support the professional development of team members
  • Improve the game design workflow with new approaches, and share knowledge with the team and with peers.
  • Keep up to date with current mobile market trends and game design practices.
  • Foster a culture of efficiency, innovation, and knowledge sharing.
  • Enable the team to constantly improve development processes based on technological advancements and industry trends.
  • Identify hiring needs and drive the hiring process to acquire and onboard new top talent.

What we're looking for:

  • Passion for mobile games.
  • Creative, innovative mindset, with strong logical and analytical thinking, and good attention to detail.
  • Good understanding of player behaviors and motivations across target audiences.
  • Good understanding of mobile game trends, best practices, and technologies.
  • Knowledge of Freemium/free-to-play (F2P) games is a must.
  • Excellent skills in team leadership, resource planning, communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution, and strong interpersonal skills.

Your experience:

  • 5+ years of experience as the manager of a game design team.
  • 5+ years of experience as a game designer.

What we offer:

  • Employment relationship with Ekipa2 d.o.o. for an indefinite period of time, with a six-month probationary period.
  • Diverse work with exciting daily challenges, working as part of a team in a fun, relaxed environment.
  • Participation in attractive projects.
  • Development opportunities through training, seminars, and conferences.
  • Choice of sport, fitness, educational, and entertainment activities outside of work.
  • Healthy meals in the office.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • 24 days of paid vacation.
  • Participation in a discretionary bonus plan.
  • Christmas bonus (subject to internal policies).

Menedžer v oddelku Načrtovanje iger V

Zahtevane so izkušnje z razvojem mobilnih iger. Ponujamo vam delovno razmerje za nedoločen čas s šestmesečnim poskusnim delom v podjetju Ekipa2 d.o.o., s sedežem v Ljubljani.

Rok prijave: 18.12.2025

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