Senior Game Designer

2 Months ago • All levels • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Game Designer, you will take full ownership and responsibility for multiple features, ensuring their delivery to the highest quality. This includes researching, documenting, creating, implementing, and balancing systems and content that provide immersive and engaging experiences, aligning with the game's pillars, themes, and vision. You will collaborate with the design team and developers from other disciplines to ensure features are developed to the highest standard from concept to release. A key priority is delivering an exceptional player experience and inspiring the development team. You will support teammates, uphold lead direction, be aware of project status, deliver tasks expertly and reliably, and assist junior members when needed. You are responsible for creating and maintaining fun and balanced features, communicating updates to relevant teams, and proactively solving problems.
Must have:
  • Significant games industry experience, including shipping games.
  • Ability to analyze gameplay features and recommend improvements.
  • Experience using Excel for balancing large datasets.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • Wide-ranging video game playing experience.
  • Ability to listen and integrate feedback.
Good to have:
  • Shipped at least one title as a Senior Designer.
  • Shipped personal projects or board game designs.
  • Deep understanding of Total War games.
  • Deep understanding of Strategy game genres.
  • Modding experience.
  • Experience in gameplay scripting (LUA, C#).
  • Knowledge of and interest in history.
  • Experience using metrics to improve design.
  • Great attention to detail and strong visual sense.
  • Experience in AI or Narrative design.
Perks:
  • Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year
  • Enhanced holiday allowance
  • Maternity and paternity breaks
  • Flexibility with core hours
  • No-notice holidays
  • Bespoke relocation package
  • Private medical and dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Permanent health insurance
  • Critical illness cover
  • Free health care screening
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Full studio closure over Christmas and New Year
  • All Bank holidays off
  • Join Diversity and Inclusion Network
  • Season ticket travel loans
  • Cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing
  • Discounted car valet service
  • Wellbeing support
  • Virtual confidential counselling
  • Community activities
  • Disabled access to studio sites

Job Details

What you’ll be doing As a Senior Game Designer, you will take full ownership and responsibility for multiple features and ensure they are delivered to the highest quality. This is to include researching, documenting, creating, implementation, balancing and more.   You will create systems and content that provide immersive, engaging, and valuable experiences that strive to meaningfully uphold the game's pillars, themes and vision.  You will collaborate with the design team to create detailed feature designs and will work closely alongside developers from other disciplines in order to ensure that the features you are responsible for are developed to the highest standard, from initial concept to final release. Delivering an exceptional player experience through your work, is among your highest priorities, as is the desire to inspire and bond the development team.  As a Senior developer you will provide support your teammates and uphold the direction of your leads, you will be aware of the development status of the project in your area, deliver on your tasks expertly and reliably, and will be able to step in and help more junior members when needed. You are responsible for creating and maintaining fun and balanced features, you will also clearly communicate regular updates to the relevant discipline teams – especially where your work directly impacts them - and must be proactive in communicating progress and solving problems. Knowledge, Skill and Experience 
 
Essential (All are required) 

  • Significant Games industry knowledge and experience - understanding the process of developing and delivering a game; Having shipped games and seen development from start to finish; 
  • Demonstrable ability to analyze gameplay features, identify strengths and weaknesses, and to recommend improvements 
  • Experience using Excel and ability to balance large sets of numbers, for unit balance, progression systems etc. 
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; can communicate clearly and concisely in English 
  • Wide-ranging experience playing a variety of video games, interested in why things work 
  • Ability to listen and be open to feedback and integrating that into your work 

 Desirable (Any of the listed is considered a plus) 

  • Shipped at least one title in a Senior Designer position. 
  • Shipped titles or personal projects, board game designs etc. 
  • Deep understanding of Total War games 
  • Deep understanding of games in the Strategy genres (Grand, RTS, 4X etc.) 
  • Modding experience 
  • Experience in gameplay scripting in LUA, C# or other language 
  • Knowledge of and interest in history 
  • Experience in using metrics to improve design 
  • Great attention for detail and strong visual sense 
  • Experienced in other game design areas, such as AI or Narrative design

 About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.  We are located in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

  • Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply such as VISAs)
  • Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and no-notice holidays
  • Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents
  • Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
  • Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all Bank holidays
  • Join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group
  • Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
  • Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling
  • Community activities including parties, football and more.
  • Our studio sites have disabled access.

We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
 Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.

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