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Lead Game Designer

Summary

What you'll do

• Be a champion of player sentiment, with an eye towards increasing the “wow” factor while maintaining healthy game KPIs
• Lead a team of game designers by setting clear and measurable objectives while guiding and mentoring them to do their best work
• Create new features and systems for current and upcoming games
• Stay informed on market trends relating to game play mechanics in competing apps
• Adjust and fine-tune existing features and experiences to make them more enjoyable from a player’s perspective
• Be an evangelist for good game design and educate the rest of the game teams on best practices so that everyone can think like a game designer to some degree
• Create wireframe screens, mock-ups and user flows for new product features and content. Manage our team of artists, engineers, prioritize tasks, manage the roadmap and ensure implementation.
• Performing systematic A/B tests (split testing). Constantly optimise the game post launch for even more virality, engagement and monetization.
• Define, measure and analyse KPI’s and base your priorities/decisions for next steps on metrics.

What we're looking for

• An avid gamer who enjoys playing a wide variety of mobile, PC, console, and tabletop games.
• A proven ability to design and adjust everything from short moment-to-moment experiences to multi-week metagame cycles.
• Are comfortable working on free-to-play games in genres such as social casino, casual, and midcore.
• Excited to dive into the numbers to correctly balance complicated features and economies.
• Ability to work patiently and productively with a wide variety of other teams, including other designers, product managers, producers, engineers, artists, and QA.
• Naturally communicate and even sell your ideas to your teammates and get them excited about what they’re building.
• Ability to take feedback and adjust accordingly, and whilst you’re able to advocate your point of view, you also have the ability to find the best compromise.
• Comfortable making sense of game performance KPIs and metrics and how they relate to game design.