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Senior Game Designer

Senior Game Designers curate the player's experience of the game as perceived through its core mechanics / controls / interfaces and create elegant gameplay features / systems that express the broader vision of the game.

Responsibilities

Design Mechanics

• Define a model of player locomotion / controls / interactions;
• Cooperate with other disciplines to implement, tune and maintain this model.

Create Gameplay

• Generate, prioritise, and decompose gameplay ideas;
• Define and validate prototypes against the vision of the game;
• Design, document, test, and balance features and systems in cooperation with inter-disciplinary specialists.

Maintain Documentation

• Decompose complex ideas into succinct, communicable design;
• Assess risks as they relate to design requirements / constraints in cooperation with inter-disciplinary specialists;
• Cooperate with QA to produce robust test cases.

Enable Progress

• Contribute to the estimation, planning, and prioritisation of tasks;
• Identify and communicate risks and issues.

Mentor Colleagues

• Provide ongoing informal and structured technical feedback to colleagues;
• Facilitate the continued professional growth of fellow team members.

Attributes

As a design generalist with a strong grasp of game design principles and techniques, this role demands the willingness to take on a broad variety of challenges, an ability to quickly switch focus between tasks, and the capacity to maintain good lines of communication, discussing complex issues at differing levels of abstraction.

Required

• 5+ years game design experience;
• Experience in a senior role;
• Shipped titles in a Game Design (or equivalent) role;
• Experience developing large-scale / open-world / sandbox games;
• Ability to decompose design goals into succinct implementation requirements;
• Ability to operate autonomously in a dynamic environment;
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills;
• Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English.

Welcomed

• Experience developing multiplayer / live-service games;
• Experience developing with Unity;
• AAA / console game development experience;
• Basic grasp of text-based scripting (C# or equivalent language);
• Experience in related fields / disciplines (eg world design, UI, UX, QA);
• Practical experience using a variety of modern game engines and tools;
• Keen understanding of User Generated Content;
• Working knowledge of Atlassian software development and collaboration tools;
• Experience working in diverse, multinational teams.