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Game Designer
3 years ago
GSN Games is looking for a Game Designer to join our Skill team! While someone local to the Boston area is preferred, we are open to a remote based employee as well.
About the GSN Games Skill Studio:
Take on cash tournaments and help transform real-money gaming with WorldWinner.com and the WorldWinner app. WorldWinner offers a wide and ever-changing variety of tournaments within multiple game titles for game enthusiasts of all skill levels.
About the Role:
In this hybrid role, you will bring your game design and product experience to work closely with stakeholders throughout our organization on design strategy and product development. You will balance both quantitative and qualitative insights to design, launch and optimize smart, engaging products and features for our active and growing user base. Additionally, you will monitor key performance indicators of our products, and work to optimize them. This role has a focus on design and support for our casual games of skill, so come prepared to design, playtest, launch, and iterate on amazing games!
What You'll Do:
· Design compelling games of skill that appeal to a modern mobile audience
· Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for WorldWinner’s games
· Use an iterative, data-driven approach to design games
· Create and validate detailed design specifications, with supporting data and documentation
· Clearly communicate every detail of the game’s design to the team
· Maintain regular feedback channels to keep the team unblocked and aligned
· Build cross-functional relationships required to get things done
· Own and analyze success metrics using both qualitative and quantitative data
About You:
The ideal candidate loves getting a better understanding of our players and how they use our products and play our games. They have a knack for optimization, and enjoy continuous iteration. This is a position requiring cross-functional partnership to design, experiment, analyze, and react. The right candidate will look forward to the challenge!
- 3+ years of game design experience, with a focus on product management as well
- Thinks about game design with a critical and analytical mindset
- Experience with mobile app or web development from pre-production to live operation
- Creative, entrepreneurial approach
- Open, transparent, and collaborative communication style
- Demonstrable success in taking a design from concept to release
- Strong understanding of data analysis and data-driven development
- Experience with data tools, such as Tableau, or other ways to digest data
- Proven ability to partner with cross-functional disciplines
Bonus Points!
- Experience with games of skill, mobile casual games or both
- Experience with iOS, Android, or Facebook games marketplaces, design trends and best practices
- Experience wireframing concepts and prototypes
- Experience with UI/UX design
- Proficient with SQL
- Experience with A/B testing and experimentation
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