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Senior Game Designer (f/m/d)

Klang is a Berlin-based game studio whose mission is to create deep and meaningful online experiences that bring people together.

At the heart of Klang is SEED, a large-scale virtual world that will provide immersive social experiences through gaming.

Caring, Harmony and Innovation are at the core of SEED as well as our core values as a company. We want to continue building a nurturing and collaborative environment for our employees with an evolving structure that adapts as we grow.

Klang is looking for a Senior Game Designer (f/m/d) who embraces the possibility to have impact in many areas of the design process and is looking to join a world-class team exploring the unknown to bring an ambitious, yet carefully calculated vision and dream to life. SEED will build community and collaboration through its design and your impact will harmonize teams to ensure our vision for this game is well-articulated, leans with curiosity, while being grounded in a scalable process.

Requirements

What you will do:

• You will be embedded within a Feature team creating designs that communicate SEED’s tone and vision
• You will be part in creating pitches for potential features that support the vision and spearhead their prototyping process
• You will analyse complex design problems and drive finding feasible solutions for them
• As one of SEED’s visionary ambassadors you will drive meaningful discussions around the game vision and evangelize it within the team, defining risks and exploring opportunities
• You will review KPIs and the evolution and implementation of our user research data to ensure an iterative design process based on our player communities
• You will create clear and concise design documents that fit into the game’s vision
• You will create visual material, author parts of the design and implement it

Who we think will be a great fit:

• You have 4+ years experience as a professional game designer
• You have had impact as a game designer early in the design process, working with stakeholders to define the overarching experience of the game
• You are familiar with the processes and development of MMOs
• You have a great understanding of designing emotions through gameplay and what incentivises player’s behavior
• You have experience in creating/designing systems, that create emergent gameplay
• You are experienced working in an agile development environment
• You have great communication skills
• You are passionate about gaming, preferably multiplayer, management, sandbox and simulation games

Bonus:

• Experience in working on at least 1 live operated game
• Knowledge of Unity
• Experience of leading a team

Benefits

• An opportunity to work on a groundbreaking project from its inception with a lot of room for professional and personal development
• Competitive salary and 27 days of paid vacation
• Remote work from Europe or hybrid/onsite work from Berlin
• Monthly public transport travel reimbursement
• Monthly company co-contributions to private pensions
• Reimbursement for physical health activities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Mental health support
• Flexible office hours (with core hours)
• Our own cafeteria serving free lunches daily - once we are back at the office
• Monthly team events and activities
• A dog-friendly office, adjustable standing desks, ergonomic chairs and mobile aircon units for hot summers
• Healthy snacks and drinks in the office

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