Senior Game Designer

Role and responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of game designers to design, tune, implement and balance game experience.
• Act as one of the lead game designers,
• Review design related tasks done junior or team members.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Remain current industry trends including new game genres and designs.
• Develop and maintain design documentation, including mechanics, story and guidelines
• Work closely with product managers and producers to design and prototype new gameplay
• Collaborate with artists and animators to create unique environments and levels.
• Review the teams responsible for multiple mobile game projects, creating game design documents, diagrams and flowcharts.
• Create, maintain and evolve the detailed design specification of the features to support and prepare the development team for the implementation process.
• Prototype and implement the designs in the game for the best quality experience within each platform.
• Examine the game features and content in line with the projects vision and quality standards set by the product owner.
• Iterating quickly to gradually realize the game vision. Communicate, iterate and take design decisions based on the user feedback.
• Working closely with the rest of the team to ensure that the design specifications are achievable within the technical and production constraints of the project.
• Make certain player experience as the ultimate metric for the quality of any feature and content.
• Guide the team to consider, plan and detail every element of a new game.
• Taking ownership on complete game-balancing.
• Should manage a team of 3 to 4 game designers

Requirements:

• Expertise in Game Design, preferably with a strong focus on UI/UX and within cross-platform titles.
• Good documentation and prototyping skills with the typical tools of the trade: Office, flowcharts, Photoshop, Adobe XD, level editor etc.
• Knowledge on multiple genres of games
• Extensive experience of balancing complex game systems
• Experience in an Agile/SCRUM environment
• Experience 5+ years