Lead Game Designer
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Who We Are
Founded in 2023 2K Sports Lab is the newest stand alone studio at 2K looking to push game development boundaries to bring 2Ks next groundbreaking sports franchise to life. Were building a world-class team at our new Vancouver BC location where our goal is to deliver an exceptional experience through bold ideas technical excellence and creative collaboration. Were seeking passionate and driven professionals across all areas of game development to help shape this ambitious vision. If youre interested in tackling unique challenges and think you have what it takes to level up our team we encourage you to apply!
What We Need
Our studio is looking for an experienced Lead Game Designer who has a high quality bar and a passion for creating memorable and authentic sporting player journeys. The Lead Game Designer will produce feature designs for our hour-to-hour play and partner with other designers and subject areas to champion the production of said features. The Lead Game Designer will report to the Design Director (Core Fantasy).
What Youll Do
Be the Product Owner for large features of the hour-to-hour play (our Core Fantasy)
- Acquire an intimate knowledge of our target player and our product goals
- Acquire an intimate knowledge of the competitive landscape
- Work with the Design Director to translate the Core Fantasy vision into feature designs
- Partner with producer tech and art peers on feature development
- Lead the tuning of features and the economy
- Collaborate with the QA team to drive testing of the game experience
- Evaluate progress and game quality and work with the design and production team on execution plans
Champion the vision and craft the design of your game area
- Help craft the vision for your game area together with creative studio leadership
- Collaborate with your team to create designs that complete the agreed upon feature visions
- Live our creative process and build vital documentation
- Manage the timely generation of design documentation
- Work with the design team to define and implement our Core Fantasy
Steer the Implementation of your gameplay vision
- Lead the vision for your game area
- Collaborate with Engineers and Animators to steer the execution of your vision
- Collaborate with your Project Management and Technical partners to lead your feature team (5-10 developers)
- Champion the player experience bringing the players perspective to all decision making
- Be constantly analyzing the software adding to grooming and prioritizing the backlog
Align the Studio on your designs for the Core Fantasy
- Passionately and clearly present designs to the team
- Share design material in asynchronous ways to aid visibility
Mentor junior design team members
- Champion our framework for designer responsibilities a 2KSL
- Be a source of knowledge and experience for other team members
- Contribute to positive morale and a healthy team culture
Prototyping and Iteration
- Work with the engineering team on prototypes to prove the Core Fantasy vision
- Iterate on prototypes to ensure the best possible feature set for the game
What Will Make You A Great Fit
- Passion for Sports and Sports Video Games
- Experience designing and owning large features for AAA games
- Experience as a lead systems designer (5)
- Experience in mentoring other designers
- Appetite for taking on Game Area Owner responsibilities (front-to-back development partner)
- Passion for and knowledge of how to create player driven/emergent narrative and systemic design
- Positive can do proactive attitude
Beneficial Qualifications
- Experience working on sports games
The pay range for this position in British Columbia at the start of employment is expected to be between CAD $96400 and CAD $142660 per Year. However actual pay offered is based on market location and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates such as job-related knowledge skills experience and other objective business considerations. If hired the company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance company or individual department/team performance and market factors.
As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided suitable accommodations to enjoy equal employment opportunities including the ability to participate in the job application or interview process please contact us if you need an accommodation as part of your application process or otherwise have questions about the Companys accommodation policy and review process.
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Key Skills
- Mechanical Design
- Computer Graphics
- GD&T
- Root cause Analysis
- CAD
- Mechanical Knowledge
- Creo
- Lua
- Unreal Engine
- Maya
- Project Engineering
- Unity
About Company
2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment.
