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Senior Game Designer
1 year ago
The design team at Build a Rocket Boy Games is expanding! We’re looking for a passionate and exceptional Senior Game Designer to come join us here in our newly refurbished Edinburgh office.
As a member of the Gameplay team you’ll work closely with the game director and the core design group and to create and maintain the vision across the Everywhere project.
Our ideal candidate will be an insightful and creative team player with an enthusiasm for creating accessible system and maintaining impeccable design documentation. A strong eye for detail combined with clear and concise communication is a must.
This is a great opportunity to develop your skills alongside an incredible worldwide team and work iteratively towards building one of the most ambitious projects in games.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the design team to conceive and detail intuitive systems and features
- Maintain a foundation of clear, concise and accessible game design documentation
- Become a hub of knowledge for the game, for all production disciplines
- Good attitude with regards to complex problem solving
- Ability to analyse and evaluate information and communicate to the team
- Comfortable using a Game Engine to edit data, test changes and submit files
- Continually iterate, balance and tune features and gameplay, based on feedback from design leads, peers and playtests
Requirements:
- You have at least 5 years industry experience in a gameplay design position
- Strong portfolio of projects or features you can break down and discuss
- Informed communications and interpersonal skills
- Open and ready to iterate and adapt based on gameplay needs or technical challenges
- You value good documentation, which is descriptive and to the point
- You have good common sense and gameplay sense
- Industry knowledge, new design methodology and emerging platforms a bonus
- A passion for games and an ability to articulate that passion clearly and analytically
- You have a positive attitude and the ability to motivate others
- Data management and editing with Excel or similar
Our Global Benefits & Perks
- Unlimited coaching & therapy — with Oliva, to support your mental health
- £500 annual Learning Budget — to spend on Learnerbly
- Stock Options — everyone owns a piece of our success
- Compassionate Leave — regardless of who it is, whether you’ve miscarried, or a lost a pet, you don’t need to tell us why
- Birthday Present — £150 voucher or a charity donation
- Birthday Day off — to celebrate your birthday away from work each year
- Caregiver Leave — up to 5 days each year to support your loved ones
- New baby gift — £250 toward a meal delivery or cleaning service
- Remote Working Budget – for remote workers to get out of the house
- Pension scheme — to finance those golden years
- Socials —office & remote events, play sessions and company-wide parties
- And even more benefits based on your location!
If you’re based in the UK
- 29 Annual Leave + 3 bank holidays - we’re flexible with most bank holidays so you can use the time to celebrate what’s important to you
- Long Service Days - 2 extra days added on your 2nd & 4th anniversaries with us.
- Private Medical Insurance - full cover with AXA
- Healthcare Cash Plan - Level 3 cover with Medicash
- Enhanced Family Leave - Primary caregivers; 13 weeks full pay, 13 weeks half pay, Secondary caregivers; 2 weeks full pay
- Cycle2Work Scheme - lease a bike through us and save on tax too!
- Electric Car Charging - electric car charging at our Port office in Edinburgh, Scotland.
About us
Build A Rocket Boy is developing EVERYWHERE; an experience with a breadth of unimaginable gameplay adventure.
We are a mix of industry leading veterans whose credits include some of the best selling and most loved games of all time. We’re a creative digital entertainment studio with an open and progressive methodology, dedicated to delivering games of the highest calibre possible.If you want to feel comfortable, inspired, and appreciated in your work pursuits then come join us. We have offices in Edinburgh and Budapest and are happy to sponsor your relocation to one of these cities.
If you want to feel comfortable, inspired, and appreciated in your work pursuits then come join us. We have offices in Edinburgh, Budapest and consider WFH candidates.
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