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Senior Game Designer

Job Overview

Wargaming Sydney is seeking a Senior Game Designer to join our world-class team and deliver fresh experiences for players. Our projects offer development challenges across a wide spectrum, presenting unique opportunities for developers from all backgrounds.

Being a Game Designer at Wargaming Sydney doesn’t mean we just design games. We have to understand the experience we want to create for players, and then design the game features or changes required to bring this experience into reality. From prototyping new concepts to balancing gameplay, designing systems or crafting groundbreaking mechanics, your work will have the potential to inspire gamers and future designers for years to come. Comprehensive design sensibilities, problem-solving, agile execution, and considered communication are our tools of the trade as we strive to bring new experiences to our audience.

What will you do?

• Actively work as part of a team, collaborating with all disciplines to gather input to craft the best concepts and realise compelling gameplay experiences
• Champion the vision of an idea, bringing clarity to the teams as to what the goals are and why
• Craft design documentation for presentation to both internal and external stakeholders
• Thrive in an environment that values rapid prototyping and pitching, you will be generating ideas while recognising that great ideas can come from anyone, with a professional maturity to let go of the ideas that don't make it
• Bring hands-on experience to the role and not shy away from getting stuck in, to craft prototypes and refine gameplay experiences, getting to the essence of why a mechanic is fun and memorable
• Embody an agile mindset, understand the need for iterative design and be adept at breaking down high-level design concepts into achievable goals based on core values

What are we looking for?

• A seasoned game designer; with around 5+ years of professional working experience tackling a variety of problems, design tools and game engines
• A design virtuoso; you concisely articulate game concepts, analysing and ruminating mechanics with balance; you’re fluent in many prevalent game systems and mechanics but have the critical thinking skills to know when it's time to try something more out of the box
• A strong communicator; your verbal and written communications are precise and unambiguous; your best work comes from collaboration and teamwork and you believe that excellence comes from dynamic communication throughout the design process
• A natural mentor; you can motivate and support other designers, guiding them towards success
• A gamer; you are passionate about games with a wide breadth of game knowledge that you've enjoyed, and you easily identify and explain a game's strengths and weaknesses

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Experience with Unreal
• Experience working with vehicle-based combat
• A background of proven mentorship
• Having worked with multiple studios across timezones

About Wargaming:

Wargaming Sydney is one of the largest AAA development studios in Australia, and is the Aussie branch of Wargaming.net. Our studio works on new and established titles, advanced technologies to support games, and is currently working with our UK sister studio DPS games on a new AAA IP.

We’ve been voted a Great Place to Work, and are endorsed as a great Employer for Women by Work180. We don't tolerate workplace bullying, discrimination or harassment, and have created a workplace where all of our team can feel supported and included. All applicants will receive consideration equally, and we encourage applications from those who are traditionally under-represented in the technology industry.

Great benefits that we offer:

• Flexible hours
• A unique flexible benefits package which includes options for subsidized private health care, fitness/gym memberships, entertainment budgets, or even getting your house cleaned!
• Paid parental leave (both primary and secondary carers)
• Paid annual volunteer day
• Free office breakfast every day
• Weekly company-provided office lunch
• Fully stocked gaming room

Some of the learning opportunities we provide:

• Dedicated regular events to experiment, innovate and grow.
• Focus on growth towards your personal goals
• Internal & External Trainings
• Attending local and international conferences like GDC or GCAP
• Support for presenting at events and conferences
• Skilling up on industry standard technologies like Unreal Engine

What our studio culture focuses on:

• Open & feedback-rich environments
• Autonomy within the team
• Transparent decision making

Take a look at our website to find out more – https://wgsydney.com/

Please apply using the link on this page to embark on your career with Wargaming!

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