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Senior Game Designer - Social and Personalization
3 years ago
We're looking for a talented Sr. Game Designer with a passion for social and personalization experiences to join our team at Hypixel Studios, which collaborates remotely from around the world. Our members range from industry newcomers to experts with 15+ years of experience. Team members come from a diverse set of backgrounds, but share a common passion for building polished player-focused, community-powered games.
As a Sr. Game Designer you will work closely with Design, Art, and Engineering to create, prototype, and implement designs that delight our diverse players.
The key qualities we are looking for in applicants are that they are demonstrably passionate about their hobbies, have the drive and commitment to deliver results with minimal supervision, have international-level professional competency in their skill sets, and can demonstrate involvement with other interesting projects throughout their lives.
What you will have to do:
- Develop a deep understanding of our players and their social and personalization needs
- Design innovative features that delight our diverse playerbase. Present solutions with clear articulation of pros and cons. Communicate chosen direction clearly to the team through design docs, user stories, wireframes, pictures of napkin sketches, etc.
- Utilize prototyping and playtesting where applicable to validate and balance solutions
- Work across disciplines to see your designs through to completion
- Listen to our players, understand how your designs impact their experiences, gain insights needed to iterate on and balance features
- Report and share benchmarks, best practices and findings to key stakeholders
- Champion our players
Desired traits:
- 5+ years of experience in professional game design on multiplayer titles
- Experience designing player customization and social systems in large, ambiguous spaces
- Deep understanding of how players build positive relationships in games
- Ability to balance product goals with design decisions
- Ability to plan and estimate design efforts
- Experience mentoring other designers
- Strong collaboration skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Bonus traits:
- Shipped or worked on at least one AAA online game
- Passion for championing Creators
- Experience working on content roadmaps
- Familiarity with block style games
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