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Lead Game Designer

We're looking for a talented and passionate Lead Game Designer to join Wildlife's team in São Paulo, Brazil.

As a Lead Game Designer, your job is to surprise and delight our players. Work closely with the art, engineering, and product teams to create new and incredible player experiences on mobile platforms. This person will be into the next generation of games so that, if you are someone who has an incredible amount of game ideas and is willing to work with the best and most experienced people, come work with us!

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, and comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, loves solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business!

What you’ll do

• Implement play-tests and refine game design features with consideration to gameplay fun-factor, difficulty balance, quality, and optimization;
• Develop "proof of concept" of new game content and features to demonstrate its feasibility;
• Develop controls and interfaces that bring the vision of the producer/product manager into a playable experience;
• Deconstruct competitor data, analyze other games' mechanics and systems to implement and improve on them;
• Develop A/B tests to get essential and relevant information about users;
• Participates and contributes to focus test set-up, evaluations, coordination and analysis;
• Lead the tuning and pacing of player progression and help craft the tools required for this process;
• Define monetization strategies with the product manager to balance the economic system:
• IAPs & sales, reward schedules, player segmentation, discounts;
• Permanently evaluate the coherence of economic systems, from a balancing perspective (future updates, sales, new game modes);
• Lead the team that you will be in charge of.

What you'll need

• Passion for playing and making video games;
• In-depth experience in-game and systems design;
• Experience in a breadth of game platforms and genres (e.g., Mobile, PC, console, tabletop), so you can easily identify and explain any game's strengths and weaknesses;
• Ability to collaborate within a game development team.
• The capacity of crafting analysis at both detailed and high level;
• Keeping your knowledge up-to-date with industry standards and extraordinary innovations and best practices;
• Aim to develop the best mobile gaming experiences and ultimately launch global hits.

More about you

• Massive ideas of new game prototypes have knowledge of the design of early game concepts;
• Ability to think logically with a high level of attention to detail;
• Strong & concise communicator of game concepts;
• Hunger and passion for making and playing games, being curious and thinking critically about why games succeed and fail;
• Smart, creative, and curious by nature, you are constantly looking for ways to improve upon things.
• Flexible, adventurous, and excited to help build something.
• Help lead and build the team providing frequent guidance and feedback

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance, please let us know at recruitment@wildlifestudios.com .