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Lead Game Designer - Unannounced AAA project

Job Description

As a Lead Game Designer, you will guide the team responsible for several gameplay features on unannounced AAA title, and continue their mission to develop exciting, challenging and forward-thinking features.

This role will require you to plan, detail, and supervise the work of game designers. You will establish standards for formal design documentation and tools for the project as well as ensure the team’s performance and resolve and manage the situations that hinder game design production objectives. You will also actively participate in the creation and development of the game design by supporting the lead studio and translating their direction to the various game features.

What you´ll do

• Understand consumer needs and ensure that the elements developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment.
• Assess the workload vs production capacity, plan the work, and set priorities for the game design team.
• Allocate duties and follow the evolution of the team’s progress on game design deliverables.
• Able to drive and follow-up on prototyping (both digital and paper based) with other game designers and programmers.
• Communicate the project objectives, strategies, and general information to all team members so as to give visibility to the advancement of the development of the game and the other crafts.
• Actively participate and act as a regular liaison in the decision-making process with management and oversee the necessary adjustments to ensure that the game design team meets the lead studio expectations.
• Supervise and be responsible for providing clear and structured project documents to ensure that gameplay intentions are understood and that team members are working on the right elements (3C, game ingredients, game systems, game modes, enemy designs, AI behaviors, etc.)
• Attend playtests and be solution-oriented to the problem encountered.
• Carry out performance follow ups and assessments.
• Participate in the selection of team members.
• With the Associate Producer, determine the schedules and vacation times of team members.
• Manage any conflicts that arise within the team.
• Create a work environment that is motivating for team members and which fosters development and creation.
• Support career advancement and suggest development and interpersonal skills training and techniques sessions to team members.

Qualifications

What you´ll bring

• At least 5 years of professional experience as a game designer – preferably on AAA console title.
• A minimum of 1-2 AAA titles as a Senior Game Designer or Lead.
• Experience supervising a game design team to deliver a significant gameplay feature.
• Exceptional mentorship, communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Critical thinking, curiosity, resourcefulness, and plenty of flexibility.
• Ability to sift through data and come to meaningful conclusions.
• Relevant experience with scripting and programming languages a plus.
• A solid understanding of the market and a passion for video games.

Additional Information

Our studio is located in one of the most popular urban area of Europe: Barcelona! We bet that you know Barcelona, either for its amazing architecture / monuments, famous nightlife, restaurants, super weather and beaches, culture or for its great life quality.
Here in Barcelona, as well as in the studio, you will meet people from around the world, eat hundreds of different foods, play different sports, talk about art and history, share amazing life experience with creative, open-minded and dynamic people.
We encourage everyone to inspire the world and build the future! We promote a friendly, creative and passionate culture to develop the best AAA game and invest time in playing any type of games, if it’s together, even better!

Are you ready to join the Ubi family for your new challenge? We are already excited to meet you!

Benefits and perks

• Restaurant Tickets: 120 € per month (1440€ net/Year).
• 25 working days of holidays and the day of your birthday.
• Flexible working hours & Flexible Friday.
• Work from home (Up to 60 % in a month under management validation).
• Beneficial Price to Sport activities and gym (app: Andjoy).
• Free Fruits and drinks in the Office.
• Breakfast on Monday in the Office.
• Free access to Ubisoft games on PC.
• Discounts for Ubisoft console games.
• Team Building events.
• After the trial period:
  • Beneficial Price to a Health Care Insurance for you (and eventually to the members of your family).
  • Access to tax discounts from your public transport and kindergarten costs.
• Relocation Assistance.

Company Description

Ubisoft Barcelona, has developed for over 20 years a strong expertise in the production of videogames from a large variety of genres and platforms. Our goal is to bring outstanding experiences to our players around the world. Our passion is innovation and using cutting-edge technology to deliver the unexpected.
Our teams are behind memorable AAA titles such as “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege”, “Beyond Good & Evil 2”, “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” … etc.