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Director of Game Design
1 year ago
Company Summary
Product Madness is one of the world's largest mobile game studios, with a global presence. Founded in 2007, we’re today a top-grossing leader in social casino mobile games that are crafted with passion and commitment. Our ambition is to entertain millions of players around the world with our remarkable titles that include Heart of Vegas, Cashman Casino, Lighting Link and FaFaFa™ Gold.
We are Mad about games and the way they bring people together, and that passion and culture is what holds us together as a studio, connects us with the partners we collaborate with, and is what links us to our sister studios across the world.
Job Posting Title
Director of Game DesignSummary
As a crucial part of our next stages of growth, we are hiring our first Game Design Director to take our portfolio of mobile free-to-play apps to the next level! As a F2P specialist with a passion for mobile gaming, you will be responsible for building our design function and will help shape the future of our company.
Why this role?
This is a rare opportunity for a Lead Designer, Principal Designer or existing Game Design Director to head up a new function in a highly successful and growing games studio. You will have the tools and support to grow in the role, build your own team as well as shape our design philosophies.What You'll Do
Responsibilities
- Be the F2P design subject matter expert for the business leveraging your deep knowledge of free-to-play game design, system design, economy balancing and F2P monetisation
- Champion robust game design practices, great customer experience and a player-centric design approach
- In collaboration with senior leadership, define and mature the company’s new games strategy
- Ideate and prototype new game concepts to build a pipeline of new games in production
- Produce clear design documentation to articulate the design vision of each new game
- Working closely with the Product organisation run an effective feature and game design process to bring our current apps to the next level
- Manage, mentor and grow a team of game design and system design professionals across multiple locations
- Collaborate with other departments and support cross-functional initiatives related to new game development.
What We're Looking For
Requirements
- Experience working across a variety of genres including social casino, casual or adjacent genres
- Robust experience designing and delivering games from the ideation stage up to full global launch
- Solid understanding of F2P mobile game mechanics mobile with a passion for mobile gaming
- Deep understanding of players motivations and how effective game design supports these motivations
- Ability to act as a leader towards your team but also be “hands-on” with ideation, design documentation and design reviews
- Shipped at least one successful F2P title as a Lead Designer or Game Design Director
- Experience managing and mentoring other game designers
- Strong understanding of mobile games KPIs and key success metrics
- Robust mathematical skills with an understanding of games economy and monetisation
- Experience working with a Data Science/Data Analytics department and/or a strongly data-driven Product department
- Comfortable in a fast pace and highly collaborative environment.
Why Product Madness ?
Product Madness is so much more than just a Pool table and a foosball game.
We believe in an honest and transparent approach with our teammates. Company wide weekly Town Halls, All Hands and strategy meetings are just a few ways in which we encourage an open and honest path to achieving complete transparency.
Despite a pandemic, there isn’t a day where we don’t feel connected to one another.
With frequent events, workshops, giveaways, slack coffee and donut sessions we have definitely brought on our office culture to this new virtual world of zoom calls.
We also try to cater for all our staff’s needs – be that a freshly brewed cappuccino made by our professional barista in our free coffee shop or by providing a bountiful supply of tasty snacks to keep us refueled and buzzing.
We love to organise plenty of social get-togethers and action-packed activity days, be it slipping inside an inflatable bumper ball for a mad session of football zorbing or throwing caution to the wind and traversing giddy treetop rope courses at Go Ape. On top of these team-building activities, our lunch and learn workshops, not to mention the lavish Christmas and summer parties, foster that ‘work hard, play hard’ mantra. Our offices are based in the heart of the metropolises of London and Lviv, surrounded by an abundance of diversity and inspiration to keep those ideas flowing.
Our Values
People First
We have the deepest respect for our people and their well being. We know they are exceptionally talented and will always have a choice. We want them to re-choose us every day. We are committed to building a culture where each person's voice will always be heard and addressed.
MAD for More
Always improving, innovating and never settling for the existing. We push all boundaries with courage and ambition to become the world’s best games company.
Globally Inclusive
We are all Equal - regardless of the language we speak, where we live, our gender, religion or culture we come from. We want to build a global home, where everyone has the equal opportunity to make an impact.
Customer Focused
We always think from the customer's perspective - be it players or internal customers.Improving their experience and joy is what drives us. Every client's success is our big win!
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