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Senior Game Designer - Unannounced AAA project

Job Description

As a Senior Game Designer, you will join the team responsible for several gameplay features on unannounced AAA title and continue their mission to develop exciting, challenging, and forward-thinking features.

You will be a role model to more junior team members while leading an iterative, hands-on development process, bringing gameplay features from concept to fully playable. Throughout production, you will shift your focus from the big picture to the low-level details, tackling obstacles in development and stepping back to asses how all the pieces connect and affect each other. You will tweak and tune until you achieve a polished and engaging player experience.

What you´ll do

• Design features aligned with the creative and game directions (3C, game ingredients, game systems, game modes, enemy designs, AI behaviours, etc.).
• Standardize, document and communicate features and systems to the features team as well as to the rest of the production team.
• Provides leadership and oversees more junior team members to ensure they follow the guidelines defined by the Lead Game Designer.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to integrate your assigned features.
• Develop in-engine prototypes and evaluate their performance.
• Adapt to technical and production constraints, reworking your design when and as often as needed.
• Participate in finding solutions to fix buggy features.
• Create and maintain design documentation that will guide interdependent teams.
• Follow up on features post-launch to improve, add, or remove components (in certain cases).
• Stay up to date on best practices to keep up with the industry & develop your skills and refresh your knowledge.

Qualifications

What you´ll bring

• At least 4-5 years of professional experience as a Game Designer – preferably on AAA console titles.
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Critical thinking, curiosity, resourcefulness, and plenty of flexibility.
• Ability to sift through data and come to meaningful conclusions.
• Relevant experience with scripting and programming languages a plus.

Additional Information

Our studio is located in one of the most popular urban area of Europe: Barcelona! We bet that you know Barcelona, either for its amazing architecture / monuments, famous nightlife, restaurants, super weather and beaches, culture or for its great life quality.
Here in Barcelona, as well as in the studio, you will meet people from around the world, eat hundreds of different foods, play different sports, talk about art and history, share amazing life experience with creative, open-minded and dynamic people.
We encourage everyone to inspire the world and build the future! We promote a friendly, creative and passionate culture to develop the best AAA game and invest time in playing any type of games, if it’s together, even better!

Are you ready to join the Ubi family for your new challenge? We are already excited to meet you!

Benefits and perks

• Restaurant Tickets: 120 € per month (1440€ net/Year).
• 25 working days of holidays and the day of your birthday.
• Flexible working hours & Flexible Friday.
• Work from home (Up to 60 % in a month under management validation).
• Beneficial Price to Sport activities and gym (app: Andjoy).
• Free Fruits and drinks in the Office.
• Breakfast on Monday in the Office.
• Free access to Ubisoft games on PC.
• Discounts for Ubisoft console games.
• Team Building events.
• After the trial period:
  • Beneficial Price to a Health Care Insurance for you (and eventually to the members of your family).
  • Access to tax discounts from your public transport and kindergarten costs.
• Relocation Assistance.

Company Description

Ubisoft Barcelona, has developed for over 20 years a strong expertise in the production of videogames from a large variety of genres and platforms. Our goal is to bring outstanding experiences to our players around the world. Our passion is innovation and using cutting-edge technology to deliver the unexpected.
Our teams are behind memorable AAA titles such as “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege”, “Beyond Good & Evil 2”, “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” … etc.

Note: The Ubisoft Barcelona Talent Acquisition team will be on holidays until the 10th of January. Therefore, you can expect a follow up on your application mid-January. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused and we are looking forward to discover your amazing profile and meet you in 2022 !

We wish you a fantastic Christmas and New Year ahead !