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F2P Game Designer - Top Drives

F2P Designer | Games Design | London | Full Time

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the automotive gaming experiences that people want on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

F2P Designer

Hutch is looking for a F2P designer for our hit game Top Drives.

As a Game Designer at Hutch, you’ll be at the core of game development, working with a cross-functional team. You will be line managing a design team working on a live title - Top Drives - and also looking at the future, prototyping and designing a brand new game.

Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand the product’s vision and strategy.
• Keep up to date with CCG and RPG mobile games market as well as new titles across genres that are innovating.
• Deconstruct games that are likely to provide valuable lessons for our game design and UX.
• Share deconstruction learnings with the team and studio.
• Utilise these learnings with the addition of game data to hypothesize and propose ideas that would help achieve the product strategy.
• Collaborate with game director and product manager in refining high-level initiative goals, success metrics and scope.
• Collaborate with game director and product manager in designing the features, functionalities and UX.
• Collaborate with scrum team during the initiative’s development.
• Collaborate with game director and product manager on defining and refining the game’s liveops content cadence, liveops content player targets and new or improved monetisation strategies.
• Design and implement liveops content.
• Be responsible for the performance of designed liveops content (engagement and revenue), and meeting the cadence goals.
• Understand player feedback and analyse data on liveops to improve key metrics and support the ideation of improvements and new content.
• Maintain tracking documentation on liveops prize car rewards and proposal of which new or re-run prize cars we should run content for.
• Collaborate in ideation with game director and product manager for new types of live content and how to increase the content quantity and quality.
• Be proactive in proposing improvements and new ideas.
• Continuously be ambitious on how to improve design tools to accelerate liveops content design whilst maintaining or improving its quality and performance.
• Lead and collaborate with game director, product manager, data analyst and community manager to balance systems, economy and difficulty curves.
• Participate in the definition of the game design team responsibilities when there are multiple game designers on Top Drives.
• Be proactive in proposing improvements or new ideas on how to improve game design team processes and its structure, how to learn from other game designers in the studio and share learnings with them, gather and prioritise game design ideas from non-designers in the team and more.

Requirements

• Previous experience working on a successful mobile F2P game and in a live operation setting
• Strong design mentality and intuition for game mechanics and systems
• Ability to create wireframes and flows with a sensibility to UI/UX design (i.e. using principles of scale, colour, visual hierarchy, usability, etc.)
• Open to feedback with a ‘self-starter’ mindset that requires minimal supervision
• Experience balancing difficulty and gameplay
• Strong interest and belief in data-driven approach to support and validate intuitions

Bonus Points

• A love of cars, motorsport and all things with wheels
• Experience with Unity
• An understanding of Lean development

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch, central London with other offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with

• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• From June - December 2022, Hutch will be trialing a 4 day working week*
• Excellent salaries
• Private health care
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Lots of social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

* This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week), with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/