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Senior Game Designer

GreenPark Introduction:

We ’ re building the future of Fan Engagement experiences for live sports. It ’ s a frenetic, all-in, raise-the-stakes and show-your-passion mobile game experience where the best fans win. Our fast-growing all-star team loves both sports and eSports and we ’ re not afraid to show it. We've closed a healthy Seed Round with investors that represent all major leagues that believe as passionately as we do in our future of sports and fan engagement.

Job Description:

The Senior Game Designer will be responsible for the creative vision of competitive and cooperative action-packed multiplayer games, game modes , and features. They are responsible for communicating that vision to studio leadership and the development team including other Senior Game Designers, Producers, Artists, Engineers,etc. To successfully execute the role, the candidate must have experience leading a full development team for iOS & Android platforms, provide appropriate design documents, have deep experience in game design theory and a working understanding of Unity.

The candidate will work with a supporting Game Design team, driving all systems design work to align with the overall product vision. The candidate will also work closely with the Producers to plan key features, live operations, and content updates. The candidate will regularly communicate with studio leadership, assist in product play testing, and work with other team members to review the full mobile product. In addition, the candidate must be able to take notes from multiple sources and be able to incorporate the feedback into revised game content and features.

Responsibilities:

• Design and own game features from concept or request through completion and live operations.
• Work with studio and design leadership to identify goals and requirements in order to define the design space.
• Explore, develop, and provide multiple designs for features with articulated trade-offs, risks, and costs for the proposed designs.
• Work with all disciplines to bring features from design to complete production.
• Solicit internal feedback through playtests and design reviews.
• Improve designs based on internal feedback, game metrics, and user feedback.
• Work with analytics and stakeholders to refine live features.
• Work with the team to create practical solutions with scalable designs.
• Advocate for the player experience while addressing requirements.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years professional mobile games design experience
• Shipped at least one game as a part of a development team

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• Shipped a mobile game title with robust live operations
• Experience with multiplayer-heavy mobile game design
• Experience designing on a game with a significant amount of daily active users
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
• Familiarity with sports and esports
• Experience working on platform systems (chat, friends, teams / clans, tournaments, etc.)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Understanding of content creation pipelines and tools in Unity
• Passion for making mobile games with an understanding of current market trends and demands
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced live operations development environment

Please remember to include your Portfolio for review with your submission.

What we offer:

• Opportunity: With a small, core team of talented people, iterating and scaling fast, you’ll be hands-on and learning right away.
• Location: We have two amazing offices - LA (Calabasas) and SF (Downtown Burlingame).
• Culture: We strive to be welcoming and inclusive. As an early team member, you’ll be active in recruiting decisions ensuring we build a culture you want to be part of.
• Salary: A competitive salary with stock options.
• Benefits: Option to join a Health, Vision and Dental benefits plan with growing benefits as the company is growing.
• Time-Off: Flexible PTO
• Away Games: With a team split between Los Angeles (Calabasas) and Burlingame, there’s occasional travel.

Please note: We do NOT offer H1B sponsorship or transfers at this time.

We find ourselves in unusual times and as such, both of our offices are on a Work From Home schedule due to COVID-19. But don't worry, we have your back when it comes to provisioning all the necessary hardware you will need to perform at the top of your game all from the comfort of your home.

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