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Senior Game Designer TCG

We are looking for a Senior Game Designer (TCG) whose work will directly translate into objects and cards sold in our game. You have a unique opportunity to shape the future of the most-played blockchain-enabled digital trading card game.

As a Senior Game Designer, you’d act as the right-hand person of the Lead Designer and implement systems, game modes, and strategies to propel Gods Unchained to great success.

You’d be responsible for how Gods Unchained players will interact with the Immutable ecosystem and be ready to help design experiences both inside and outside the game.

We currently have a target of 750 cards per year spread across three main expansions and several supplemental and promotional products. You will step into the role of an Expansion Set Lead, with guidance from the Lead Designer, to create cards and mechanics that build upon the game to surprise, delight, and challenge our users.

You have the opportunity to shape the long-term growth of the game. You have ownership to control the tone and structure of the set whilst being supported by our wider gaming department.

Here’s how you’ll contribute:

• Working with the lead designer to create beautiful, engaging content, strong mechanics, and gameplay that ties into the greater company ecosystem and reinforce the objectives of the game and company.
• Create a welcoming onboarding system that both challenges and teaches new users about the game style and objectives.
• Create an enticing and deep sequence of game modes that allow users both flexibility to play the game they want and entice them to find new features and play styles.
• Be comfortable using game usage data, consumer feedback, and user testing to inform and drive game design.
• Leading expansion set design with other senior/lead designers
• Be a part of the live balancing team, to ensure our game has many fun and competitive ways to win.
• Creating systems that interact within the game, and within the blockchain that is attached to it.

A bit about you:

• 7+ years experience in TCGs as a designer, elite player, or producer, or equivalent experience designing AAA games.
• Understanding of blockchain technology and what the advantages and benefits are.
• Strong collaboration skills. You can create strong communication lines with all departments and teams working on the game and client.
• You can manage upward and sideways.
• Experience working with professional TCG players, designers and testers.
• You can create design docs and several systems from scratch and ensure that the design is understood and acted upon.
• You can make proposals to the game based on a strong statistical or a factual basis.
• Technical Design. You can learn the game engine’s capabilities, which we use to create and enforce card gameplay.
• You understand systems design, the design methodology of creating new cards, and new card game mechanics.
• You are highly motivated, innovative, ready to think outside the box and challenge conventional thinking. We’re keen to foster an atmosphere of creativity and innovation.
• You can incorporate live data, consumer feedback, and user testing into the game design.

Some extra skills that would be awesome:

• A deeper understanding/experience of blockchain technologies would be ideal, including how some of our competitors are using blockchain technology to improve the user’s experience.
• Tournament experience, as a pro player, judge, or organizer
• Unity Experience

Some of the things we can offer you:

• Competitive Salary and Employee Share Options: We want to build a successful company which means sharing the companies potential wins with those who contributed
• Flexible working: Work-life balance is important to us, so feel free to work from home as needed
• Diversity and Inclusion: We are a workspace that has committed to diversity and inclusion and have joined the Project F programme
• Employee Assistance Program: 24/7 service that includes unlimited counselling for you and your family
• Ideal office location: Currently located near Central Station in Surry Hills with a rooftop
• Social events: Fun and regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
• Equipment perks: We provide you with all the hardware you need to succeed, plus an additional $750 to set up your new home office
• Personal perks: Perkbox benefits including premium access to Aura, Calm, an online fitness portal and discounts at major retailers
• Learning opportunities: Thousands of online learning courses via Go1, Udemy and Naspers

We do not accept CVs from recruiters or employment agencies.