Game Designer (Experienced - Senior)

Game Designer (Experienced - Senior)

HARDlight are looking for a talented hands-on Designer to help craft the future of our live mobile Sonic titles.

You will be working with a team that is highly skilled, autonomous, fast paced and agile, they collaborate well and respect each other. To work well with the team, a Designer must be an active collaborator willing to work closely with a diverse, cross discipline group to develop and iterate ideas for features and improvements.

For a Designer to excel in the role, they must be excited and committed to the continual improvement of an existing product that resonates with 100’s of millions of players.

Essential Skills & Experience

• You’ve designed and overseen the development of successful features in one or more live F2P titles
• You deliver designs that appeal to the audience, meet the needs of the business and are achievable within agreed development timeframes
• You have good presentation skills and can clearly and confidently communicate your designs
• You write clearly and your documentation is concise, detailed, and well-organized with easy-to-understand examples, diagrams and mock-ups
  You can take responsibility for entire features and operate without the need for regular supervision
• You can identify and react to problems and advise others on how to deal with unexpected issues or changes
• You regularly play mobile games, and stay up to date with mobile design trends

Why work at HARDlight?

• You'll have access to a comprehensive benefits package that includes ULEV car salary sacrifice, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare & dental insurance schemes and an enhanced contributory pension scheme
• We offer competitive salaries and a fantastic bonus scheme so that you can stay motivated and focused on making HARDlight the best it can be
• For gaming buffs, we offer free SEGA games on Steam and a home technology scheme
• Fitness fanatics will love our discounted gym membership and ride-to-work scheme. You can find your zen with weekly yoga classes as well as in-house massage therapy
• We pride ourselves on having flexible working hours to help work fit around you
• The opportunity to be a large part of a small team, developing innovative titles with a huge SEGA back catalogue
• Based in the ‘Heart of England' in stunning historic Royal Leamington Spa, with great connections to London & Birmingham
• We want people of all backgrounds to see themselves represented and included in our work, so we actively seek to diversify our team and bring more voices to the table. All applicants are welcome!

We are taking a hybrid working approach and you will be expected to work 3 days in the office with the option of 2 days out of the office.