Lead Game Designer

What Youll Do:

• You Own, drive, and communicate the vision for major design initiatives
• Recruit and train designers for your initiatives.
• Work closely with product managers, producers, engineers, and artists to design and prototype new gameplay and systems.
• Build and improve tools to make the design pipeline faster and more efficient for the team.
• Be the advocate of good design practices across the studio.

What You Bring:

• Deep understanding of games and what makes them fun, both as gamer and a professional.
• Experience in leading a team of designers.
• 9+ years of professional game development experience as a game designer, experience with system game design.
• Widely played, especially with online and mobile games, with the ability to articulate what is strong/weak about the design of existing games.
• Experience designing mobile F2P games,
• Strong feature design experience
• Excel skills to model and balance game systems and create complex game systems from scratch.
• Experience and interest with player-driven economies
• Understanding of game balance, including statistics, virtual goods, economics and user motivations
• Excellent communication, critical thinking, analysis skills.
• Bachelor s degree or equivalent professional experience, we further value candidates with graduate degrees and/or top tier university pedigree.