Lead Game Designer

2 Years ago • 6 Years + • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Game Designer, you will be working closely with the Creative/Game Director. You will lead and manage design teams, collaborate with partners, and focus on people management, creativity, communication, problem-solving, and mitigation. You will stay updated on player trends, supervise game designers, and ensure innovative gameplay. You will conceptualize characters, rules, settings, and stories, manage creative ideation, define Game Design Documents (GDD), review game features, provide feedback, and incorporate user feedback. You will also collaborate with other team members, train and develop junior designers, and communicate with the Design Director.
Must have:
  • Expertise in Mobile and F2P with multiple titles shipped.
  • 6+ years of experience as a game designer.
  • Understanding of industry, market, and target audiences.
  • Strong understanding of KPIs and ability to drive game design around KPIs.
  • Experience in prototyping and shipping games with Unity or Unreal engines.
  • Extensive knowledge of Game Design principles and gaming landscape.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to write clear documentation.
  • Attention to detail from both technical and artistic perspectives.
  • Command on excel or any scripting language.
  • Strong proactive problem-solving and intuitive development skills.
  • A leader who encourages team collaboration.
  • Passionate gamer with an eye for details.
  • Fast and willing learner.

Job Details

Steer Studios  mission is to create a world-leading game studios in Saudi Arabia, creating high-quality games for international audiences. Also to help Saudi’s passionate gaming sector to develop homegrown IP and more broadly, make KSA a global hub for gaming.


As part of the Steer studios team, you will work alongside the best global gaming talents who have relocated to Riyadh to be part of the ambitious group, and innovative, passionate and hardworking Saudis.

 

Steer Studios is seeking a Lead Game Designer with a passion for various genres of games and a drive for storytelling. You will act in a project leadership capacity to help solve production or creative problems. You will be working closely with the Creative/Game Director. You will be responsible for building design teams and collaborating with partners. The major focus areas of this position will be people management, creativity, communication, problem solving and mitigation.



Key Responsibilities:


  • Stay up to date with the latest player trends and incorporate these where applicable.
  • Plan, detail, and directly supervise the work of Game Designers in your team
  • Ensure the team is creating innovative gameplay and experiences for the defined game vision to set the game's foundation.
  • Conceptualize and develop characters, rules, settings, and stories for new games.
  • Independently manage various creative ideation steps from pitching ideas to rapid prototyping.
  • Define GDD for various game systems and document all details, iterations, and changes for the development teams.
  • Review game features to ensure they are fun and developed per the GDD defined.
  • Regularly playing the game updates to provide feedback and doing quality control.
  • Master continues review and iteration process to incorporate user feedback in game design and feature set.
  • Collaborating closely and ensuring alignment with artists, developers, and other team members.
  • Capacity to train, coach, and develop junior game designers. Promote experience sharing.
  • Advocate game-developer mindset in the team beyond mastery of game design and technical subjects
  • Communicate and report to the Design Director.
  • Help production understand the design team’s production capacity and work together to schedule and prioritize tasks



Qualifications and Key Skills:

  • Expertise in Mobile and F2P with multiple titles shipped.
  • 6+ years of experience as a game designer.
  • Understanding of the industry, market, and target audiences.
  • Strong understanding of KPIs and ability to drive game design around KPIs.
  • Experience in prototyping and shipping games with Unity or Unreal gaming engines and well versed with the constraints.
  • Extensive knowledge of Game Design principles and the gaming landscape.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to write clear documentation, making complex ideas clear, concise, and compelling.  Ability to give positive and constructive feedback. ​​(Briefings, review, discussions, problem-solving, etc.)
  • Attention to detail from both technical and artistic perspectives.
  • Command on excel or any scripting language to maintain game design configurations.
  • Strong proactive problem-solving and intuitive development skills. 
  • A leader who encourages team collaboration. 
  • Passionate gamer with an eye for details.
  • Fast and willing learner.
  • Bachelor’s degree or College diploma in game design or equivalent is preferred.

 

Together, lets bring Steer Studios to the world!

Similar Jobs

Wind River - Software Architect – Real Time Operating Systems

Wind River

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (On-Site)
2 Months ago
innoactive studios - Software Engineer

innoactive studios

(Remote)
7 Months ago
Granicus - Project Manager, Digital Services

Granicus

Canada (Remote)
2 Months ago
Matte projects - Head of Strategy

Matte projects

New York, United States (On-Site)
2 Months ago
EveryMatrix - Senior AQA Specialist

EveryMatrix

Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
bohemia interactive - Technical Designer - Editor & Game Master

bohemia interactive

Prague, Prague, Czechia (On-Site)
4 Months ago
Radiant Cat Studio - Game Designer

Radiant Cat Studio

Istanbul, İstanbul, Türkiye (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Embark Studios - Lead Game Designer

Embark Studios

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Ubisoft - UX/UI Designer (Mobile Gaming)

Ubisoft

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (On-Site)
5 Months ago
Penrose studios - UI/UX Game Designer

Penrose studios

San Francisco, California, United States (On-Site)
4 Years ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Similar Skill Jobs

Hawkeye Innovations - Match Operations Assistant

Hawkeye Innovations

Almaty, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan (On-Site)
1 Month ago
Ajmera Infotech - Backend Engineer – Build fail-proof systems at global scale

Ajmera Infotech

Austin, Texas, United States (On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
Open Systems Technologies - Rail Systems Coordinator

Open Systems Technologies

Sacramento, California, United States (Remote)
1 Week ago
gitlab - Sales Strategy Manager - Americas

gitlab

United States (Remote)
4 Weeks ago
Nice - Senior Data Scientist Engineer

Nice

Pune, Maharashtra, India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Nice - Senior Performance Engineer

Nice

Pune, Maharashtra, India (Hybrid)
1 Month ago
Diligent Corporation - Senior Software Engineer (.Net, Angular)

Diligent Corporation

Budapest, Hungary (Hybrid)
4 Weeks ago
Aera Technology - Senior Software Engineer Backend

Aera Technology

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
kalypso media - Sales Manager (m/f/d) - Video Games

kalypso media

Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (Hybrid)
4 Months ago
USE Insider - Account Executive - Mexico

USE Insider

Mexico City, Mexico (Hybrid)
3 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Jobs in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia

Nagarro - Senior Staff Engineer, Java Fullstack

Nagarro

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Assystems - BIM Modeler

Assystems

Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
8 Months ago
Assystems - BIM Modeler

Assystems

Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Assystems - BIM Manager

Assystems

Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Nagarro - Staff Engineer ,Mobile Developer (React Native)

Nagarro

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Motorola solutions - Solution Architect

Motorola solutions

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
2 Weeks ago
Sandsoft Games - Senior Marketing Artist

Sandsoft Games

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
2 Months ago
UXBERT Labs - Software Project Manager

UXBERT Labs

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
8 Months ago
PwC - Executive Assistant

PwC

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
9 Months ago
Assystems - Electrical Engineer (Cataloging)

Assystems

Al Khobar, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)
4 Months ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

Game Design Jobs

unicos studio - Game Designer

unicos studio

(On-Site)
3 Weeks ago
rebel wolves - Gameplay QA Analyst

rebel wolves

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland (On-Site)
2 Months ago
Gameloft - Game Designer

Gameloft

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
3 Weeks ago
Riot Games - Technical Game Designer II - Riftbound: The League of Legends Trading Card Game

Riot Games

Los Angeles, California, United States (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Stepico - GAME DESIGNER

Stepico

(Remote)
4 Months ago
Deep Silver Fishlabs - Game Designer

Deep Silver Fishlabs

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (Hybrid)
2 Weeks ago
Ubisoft - Game Designer (3C)

Ubisoft

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Hybrid)
2 Months ago
Digital extremes - Senior UX/UI Mobile Game Designer

Digital extremes

London, Ontario, Canada (Remote)
1 Week ago
Epic Games - Senior Gameplay AI, Fortnite

Epic Games

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (On-Site)
3 Months ago
Ubisoft - UI/UX Designer (Mobile Gaming)

Ubisoft

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (Hybrid)
1 Month ago

Get notifed when new similar jobs are uploaded

About The Company

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (On-Site)

View All Jobs

Get notified when new jobs are added by Steer Studios

Level Up Your Career in Game Development!

Transform Your Passion into Profession with Our Comprehensive Courses for Aspiring Game Developers.

Job Common Plug