Team Lead - Game Design

1 Month ago • 5-7 Years • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

As Team Lead - Game Design, you'll lead a seasoned game design team, ensuring high-quality work while fostering individual and collective growth. You'll bridge creative vision and production, transforming ideas into refined gaming experiences. Responsibilities include leading and mentoring the team, setting clear goals, managing deliverables, conducting performance reviews, driving recruitment, translating design goals into structured plans, identifying and solving workflow issues, promoting best practices, acting as a liaison between design and other teams, and collaborating with Directors and Producers. The role involves working on a new intellectual property, a fresh take on a AAA multiplayer online battle arena game (MOBA).
Must have:
  • 5+ years in game development, 2+ years in leadership
  • Experience shipping games and leading teams
  • Project management tools (Jira, Confluence) familiarity
  • Agile/Scrum methodology knowledge
  • Fluent in French and English
Good to have:
  • Hands-on game design experience
  • Understanding of game design principles
  • Live service game experience
  • Passion for mentoring and building teams

Job Details

DESCRIPTION

En tant que Responsable d'équipe - Conception de jeu, vous dirigez une équipe de conception chevronnée et passionnée. Vous assurez la livraison d'un travail de conception de haute qualité tout en favorisant le développement individuel et collectif des membres de l'équipe. Point de connexion essentiel entre vision créative et réalité de production, vous transformez les grandes idées en expériences de jeu raffinées, guidant l'équipe vers l'excellence.

Rejoindre Amazon Games Montréal, c'est contribuer à la fondation d'un nouveau studio de jeux vidéo à taille humaine; participer à la création d'une nouvelle propriété intellectuelle revisitant l’arène de bataille en ligne multijoueur (oui, un MOBA); et collaborer avec une équipe d'experts polyvalents qui ont bien du fun à travailler ensemble. Venez construire l'avenir avec nous!

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As Team Lead - Game Design, you lead a team of seasoned and passionate game designers. You ensure the delivery of high-quality design work while fostering individual and collective growth among team members. As a crucial link between creative vision and production reality, you transform big ideas into refined gaming experiences, guiding the team towards excellence.

Joining Amazon Games Montréal means taking part in the foundation of a new video game studio that operates at a focused, human scale; participating in the creation of a new intellectual property, a fresh take on the AAA multiplayer online battle arena game (yes, a MOBA); and collaborating with a team of well-rounded experts who have a great time working together. Come build the future with us!

Key job responsibilities
Responsabilités

Leadership et développement d'équipe
- Diriger, encadrer et soutenir l'équipe de conception de jeu, en assurant la clarté des objectifs et la responsabilité des livrables
- Mener des entretiens individuels et des évaluations de performance, fournir des retours continus pour soutenir la croissance individuelle
- Piloter les efforts de recrutement et d'intégration pour développer et renforcer l'équipe de conception
Exécution et livraison
- Traduire les objectifs de conception en plans structurés, en décomposant le travail en tâches réalisables avec des délais réalistes
- Identifier et résoudre les problèmes de flux de travail, les goulots d'étranglement de production et les lacunes en ressources
- Promouvoir les meilleures pratiques et l'amélioration continue des processus de l'équipe
Collaboration interdisciplinaire
- Agir comme agent.e de liaison entre la conception et les autres équipes, assurant l'alignement et l'intégration entre les disciplines
- Collaborer avec les équipes de direction et de production pour garantir que le travail de conception s'inscrit dans les objectifs plus larges du projet et les contraintes de production

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Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of game designers, ensuring clarity on goals and ownership of deliverables
- Run 1:1s, performance reviews, and provide ongoing feedback to support individual growth
- Drive hiring and onboarding efforts to build and strengthen the design team
Execution & Delivery
- Translate design goals into structured plans, breaking down work into actionable tasks with realistic timelines
- Identify and solve workflow issues, production bottlenecks, and resourcing gaps
- Champion best practices and continuous improvement across the team’s processes
Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
- Act as the liaison between design and other teams, ensuring alignment and integration across disciplines
- Collaborate with Directors and Producers to ensure design work fits broader project goals and production constraints

About the team
À propos de l'équipe

Nous développons et publions activement un portfolio de jeux, avec l'ambition de créer des destinations captivantes pour la découverte de nouveaux jeux et contenus. Pour y parvenir, nos divisions principales - Game Publishing, Game Development et Prime Gaming - collaborent avec nos partenaires externes pour développer, publier et livrer les meilleurs jeux AAA. Du concept aux services en ligne, nos équipes visent l'excellence dans la création d'univers de jeu captivants. Notre vision s'étend au-delà du présent : nous croyons en un avenir où chaque personne pourra créer, compétitionner, collaborer et connecter à travers les jeux. C'est pourquoi nous restons constamment à l'écoute des joueuses et des joueurs, nous permettant ainsi d'offrir des expériences exceptionnelles et un service de première classe. Au cœur de notre réussite se trouve la diversité de nos équipes : nous bâtissons un environnement inclusif qui profite autant à notre personnel qu'à notre clientèle. En rassemblant des personnes aux horizons variés et en leur donnant la liberté d'innover, nous créons un espace où chaque membre peut repousser ses limites, se challenger mutuellement et explorer de nouvelles façons de réaliser son plein potentiel.

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About the Team

We’re actively developing and publishing a portfolio of games and aspire to create compelling destinations to discover new games and in-game content. Our core divisions: Game Publishing, Game Development and Prime Gaming work together with our external partners to develop, publish, and deliver the best AAA games. From concept to live services, our teams aim to be the best at creating worlds you want to play in. We believe in a future where everyone can create, compete, collaborate and connect through games. We listen to the players so we can deliver great, player-focused games and best-in-class service. We believe in building teams and products that reflect and offer an inclusive environment for all our employees and customers. By taking a diverse group from different backgrounds and giving them the freedom to be innovative and creative, we create an environment where our team members push boundaries, challenge each other, and learn new ways to unlock their full potential.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications de base

- 5+ années dans le développement de jeux, dont 2+ années dans un rôle de leadership ou de gestion
- Expérience dans la livraison de jeux et la direction d'équipes à travers différentes étapes de développement
- Familiarité avec les outils de gestion de projet (ex. JIRA, Confluence) et les méthodologies de production (Agile/Scrum)
- Maîtrise du français et de l’anglais, à l'oral et à l'écrit; puisque ce rôle nécessite d'interagir avec d’autres entités d’Amazon à l’échelle mondiale ainsi qu’avec des collègues et intervenant.es dans d’autres provinces canadiennes, la connaissance du français et de l’anglais est exigée pour ce poste.

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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years in game development, including 2+ years in a leadership or management role
- Proven experience shipping games and leading teams through different stages of development
- Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence) and production methodologies (Agile/Scrum)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, in French and English; due to the nature of the role, which requires interaction with other Amazon entities globally and with Amazon employees and stakeholders in other provinces in Canada, bilingual French and English is required for this position.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications souhaitables

- Expérience pratique en tant que concepteur·rice de jeux ou collaboration étroite avec des équipes de conception
- Compréhension des principes de conception de jeux, des pipelines et de la documentation
- Expérience sur des jeux en service continu ou à travers plusieurs genres de jeux
- Passion pour le mentorat et la construction d'équipes inclusives et performantes
Nous savons que votre talent et vos habilités peuvent s’exprimer par des expériences variées et pertinentes. Nous vous incitons donc à postuler, même si vous ne présentez peut-être pas toutes les qualifications listées.

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Preferred Qualifications

- Background as a hands-on game designer or close collaboration with design teams
- Understanding of game design principles, pipelines, and documentation
- Experience working on live service games or across multiple game genres
- Passion for mentoring and building inclusive, high-performing teams
We recognize that your talents and skills can be expressed through a variety of relevant experiences. We encourage you to apply, even if you do not have all the qualifications listed.

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