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Senior Level Designer
2 years ago
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What We Do:
Founded by an incredible entrepreneurial team, including the Co-Founder and former CEO of YouTube, the Founder and former CEO of Zappos, and the Co-Founder and Chief Creative for BLITZ Agency - our current CEO, GreenPark is the first sports and esports metaverse where fans connect, compete, and level up with one another. Here, you suit up, get recruited by your favorite team and go head-to-head against your rivals in epic battles. Now you can prove, once and for all, that you are the MVF (Most Valuable Fan)! Make game predictions, play mini games, and join a virtual Watch Party to cheer on your favorite team. Collect digital trading cards of your favorite players, level them up, unlock rewards, challenge friends to mini games and deck your Greenie out in your best gear. We are currently partnering with Riot Games, the LCS, NBA, La Liga with other esports & sports leagues coming soon.
Job Description:
The Senior Level Designer will be responsible for the creative vision of competitive and cooperative action-packed multiplayer games, game modes , and features. They are responsible for communicating that vision to studio leadership and the development team including other Senior Game Designers, Producers, Artists, Engineers,etc. To successfully execute the role, the candidate must have experience working with a full development team for iOS & Android platforms, provide appropriate design documents, have deep experience in game design theory and a working understanding of Unity.
The candidate will work with a supporting Game Design team, driving all level design work to align with the overall product vision. The candidate will also work closely with the Producers to plan key features, live operations, and content updates. The candidate will regularly communicate with studio leadership, assist in product play testing, and work with other team members to review the full mobile product. In addition, the candidate must be able to take notes from multiple sources and be able to incorporate the feedback into revised game content and features.
Responsibilities:
- Design and own game features from concept or request through completion and live operations.
- Work with studio and design leadership to identify goals and requirements in order to define the design space.
- Explore, develop, and provide multiple designs for features with articulated trade-offs, risks, and costs for the proposed designs.
- Work with all disciplines to bring features from design to complete production.
- Solicit internal feedback through playtests and design reviews.
- Improve designs based on internal feedback, game metrics, and user feedback.
- Work with analytics and stakeholders to refine live features.
- Work with the team to create practical solutions with scalable designs.
- Advocate for the player experience while addressing requirements.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3 years professional mobile games design experience
- Shipped at least one game as a part of a development team
Desired Skills & Qualifications:
- Shipped a mobile game title with robust live operations
- Experience with multiplayer-heavy mobile game design
- Experience designing on a game with a significant amount of daily active users
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- Familiarity with sports and esports
- Experience working on platform systems (chat, friends, teams / clans, tournaments, etc.)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of content creation pipelines and tools in Unity
- Passion for making mobile games with an understanding of current market trends and demands
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced live operations development environment
Please remember to include your Portfolio for review with your submission.
What we offer:
- Opportunity: With a small, core team of talented people, iterating and scaling fast, you’ll be hands-on and learning right away.
- Location: We have two amazing offices - LA (Calabasas) and SF (Downtown Burlingame).
- Culture: We strive to be welcoming and inclusive. As an early team member, you’ll be active in recruiting decisions ensuring we build a culture you want to be part of.
- Salary: A competitive salary with stock options.
- Benefits: Option to join a Health, Vision and Dental benefits plan with growing benefits as the company is growing.
- Time-Off: Flexible PTO
- Away Games: With a team split between Los Angeles (Calabasas) and Burlingame, there’s occasional travel.
What We Offer:
- Opportunity: With a small, core team of talented people, iterating and scaling fast, you’ll be hands-on, collaborating and learning right away
- Locations: Although our headquarters is in Los Angeles, we are currently a remote workforce in California, Washington, Texas, North Carolina, Nevada and New York. Flex work options coming in 2022
- Culture: We strive to be welcoming and inclusive. As an early team member, you’ll be active in recruiting decisions ensuring we build a culture you want to be part of
- Salary: A competitive salary with stock options
- Benefits: Currently offering employee-created benefits covering Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, LTD/STD, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, Life Insurance, EAP and home office stipend
- Time-Off: Flexible PTO
Who We Are:
Sports is more than a game, and so are we. Genuine collaboration, integrity and heartfelt camaraderie is what makes us a true team. We believe in the success of our company, partner relations and that our player community must ultimately be driven by the strength of our inclusivity, diversity and integrity. We believe that we must be the global community that we are building for. This is what creates the Future of Fandom. This is what makes us GreenPark.
Where You Can Find Us:
Try GreenPark for yourself and let us know what you think! Check us out on the app stores: iOS & Android
Check out our website to get even more details on who we are and what’s coming! https://greenparksports.com/
Please note: We do NOT offer H1B sponsorship or transfers at this time.
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