[Vector North] Senior Game Designer

Responsibilities

Senior Game Designers identify, propose, and oversee the implementation / iteration of a broad range of gameplay that expresses the high-level direction of the game.

Leveraging their experience, they help to drive progress by acting as a bridge between disciplines, and sharing knowledge with fellow team members.

Design Mechanics, Features, and Systems

• Work independently and within groups to research, generate, and communicate design concepts.
• Decompose complex design into succinct, communicable specification documents.
• Oversee the implementation, evaluation and iteration of gameplay in cooperation with inter-disciplinary specialists.

Enable Progress

• Contribute to the estimation, planning, and prioritisation of design tasks.
• Contribute to the improvement of development pipelines / methods of coordination with other disciplines.
• Identify and communicate risks as they relate to design / cross-discipline requirements / constraints.

Mentor Colleagues

• Act as a first point-of-contact for design-related topics.
• Support a culture of ongoing informal feedback to facilitate the professional growth of fellow team members.
• Pro-actively exchange information / knowledge within and beyond the design discipline to help build a better game together.

Attributes

A design generalist with a strong grasp of sandbox / systemic gameplay principles and techniques within in a multiplayer context.

This role demands an innovative, collaborative, and iterative mindset, and the capacity to effectively communicate complex ideas at differing levels of abstraction.

Required

• Several years of game design experience with experience in a senior role;
• Shipped titles in a Game Design (or equivalent) role;
• Experience developing multiplayer open-world / sandbox games;
• Experience with live-ops / games-as-a-service; 
• Strong grasp of two or more domains (eg 3Cs, Combat, Progression, Quest, Narrative, AI, Economy, etc.).
• Ability to decompose design goals into succinct implementation requirements;
• Ability to operate autonomously;
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills;
• Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English.

Welcomed

• Experience developing with Unreal;
• AAA / console game development experience;
• Basic grasp of text-based scripting (C# or equivalent language);
• Experience in related fields / disciplines (eg world design, UI, UX, QA, MX);
• Practical experience using a variety of modern game engines and tools;
• Keen understanding of User Generated Content;
• Working knowledge of Atlassian software development and collaboration tools;
• Experience working in diverse, multinational teams.

We welcome all applications!

We are proud to have such a multicultural environment and we strive to create a safe, inclusive, and harmonious atmosphere for everyone to thrive in. We invite applications from all genders, sexual orientations, races, colors, religions, and ages.

If this sounds like a good fit for your skills and experience, then apply right away!