As Senior Game Designer you make sure that the game aligns with the creative vision, that the development team is inspired and informed, and most of all that the game is an awesome experience for the player.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define, maintain, and champion the creative vision together with the game director
- Collaborate with a multi-discipline team to turn the vision into an experience
- Drive gameplay, systems, and content design through all development phases
- Turn player feedback and data into design direction and implementation
- Work with the project management and stakeholders on the schedule, roadmap and backlog
- Mentor other designers to help them level up
ROLE-BASED SKILLS
What we are looking for:
- Experience as a game designer on multiple shipped game productions
- Strong sense for what makes a game fun to play
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills
- Experience mentoring other game designers
What could help:
- Experience with physics based games
- Experience with multiplayer games
- Experience with live operations
- Experience working with existing IP
Soft skills
- Communication: You can easily translate ideas for others to understand
- Creativity : You are able to come up with original and innovative ideas and solutions
- Accountability : Taking responsibility for your own actions
- Flexibility : Adapting to reach a certain goal
- Initiative : Recognizing and creating opportunities
Qualifications
- Experience on multiple games as a designer
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Able to work at our office in The Hague
- Able to work 32-40 hours per week
Are you qualified?
We would much rather read your application, than miss out on a great candidate. So please apply if you are interested!
CULTURAL COMPETENCIES
Paladin has five core values that we’re looking for in team members:
- Kaizen : We make positive changes on a regular basis
- Spark : We leave a mark, providing a positive experience for everyone involved
- Wholehearted : We love the work we do, and we commit to our work
- Fellowship : We are in this together
- Autonomy : We make decisions and take responsibility for our actions
WE OFFER
- A place in a highly motivated and skilled team
- Positive, healthy work environment
- 25 days of vacation and 5 additional national holidays per year
- Coaching and plenty of opportunities for personal development
- Competitive salary, a pension plan and other benefits
- Remote work possibilities & flexible hours
- Relocation support
We work in autonomous development teams. This ensures tight communications, a real sense of ownership and truly agile development.
In our weekly show & tell meetings, every team shares their progress and all aspects of the company can be discussed. We believe in transparency and autonomy, and this creates a high degree of freedom and responsibility.
Our take on the post-Covid work situation
We value our team spirit, a healthy work life balance and company culture. This is why we adopted a hybrid structure that allows us to work from home and in the studio. This is why we would like you to be able to come into the studio every once in a while. We will offer support during the relocation proces.
If you prefer to work remote, we are open to finding a way to make that work. However, we prefer candidates to be roughly in the same time zone to ensure in sync work routines with the rest of the team.
ABOUT PALADIN STUDIOS
We create games that make people smile – be it a sweet twinkle, loud laugh, or evil grin.
Paladin is a game developer. Our basecamp is in The Hague but we are currently working remote due to COVID-19. We are a team of 35 knights and growing. Our mission is to create games with a spark, for players all over the world. We achieve this goal by being a world-class game studio with soul, that brings out the best in people. That means a studio filled to the brim with creativity, professionalism, and good vibes.
Some of our recent games include:
HOW TO APPLY
Does this sound good? Awesome! To apply, please fill in the application form.