Senior Game Designer | Candy Crush Soda Saga
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
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Games Design & ProductionJob Description:
Were looking for a Senior Game Designer with strong collaboration skills to help
shape and deliver features that delight players of Candy Crush Soda Saga one of our biggest and most successful mobile match3 games.
In this role you will guide and shape features throughout the entire design process with your team from early explorations to the final release. You will confidently balance the best possible player experience with business impact partnering closely with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality features at scale.
Your role within the Kingdom
As a Senior Game Designer in Soda you will take ownership of the design decisions within a focused area such as core gameplay live ops & events or permanent progression. Youll work within the established design direction of our game while partnering with UX UI Development Product Data Science User Research Sound and Art to deliver meaningful experiences for millions of players.
With a problem-solution mindset you will confidently translate player insights and quantitative and qualitative data into clear design choices create documentation that outlines reasoning and guides implementation support player testing and iterate to ensure your solutions are accessible data-informed and aligned with product strategy and roadmap.
Youre a strong communicator and a champion of design principles. You build strong relationships across disciplines and introduce innovative mechanics and concepts while respecting technical and performance constraints.
What youll do:
- Lead player-centric feature design from problem definition through concepting to final release. Stay accountable for the design choices within your team.
- Contribute to and uphold the established creative vision and strategy.
- Turn player feedback insights and data into actionable design decisions leading to measurable outcomes.
- Create clear concise documentation and artifacts to explain design rationale and intent as well as enable smooth implementation.
- Collaborate across disciplines areas and teams to refine design solutions enhance accessibility and ensure alignment.
- Represent and champion our game design craft to build shared understanding.
Skills to create thrills:
- Experience working on live games ideally mobile free-to-play with deep knowledge of casual gameplay mechanics and player motivations within this space.
- Proven ability to design viable core gameplay loops and connecting meta systems or features with strong analytical and intuitive skills.
- Communicate designs clearly and efficiently through artefacts such as presentation decks visual one-pagers mockups written documents or prototypes.
- Demonstrated ownership of the entire design process including problem definition exploration concepting production and implementation player testing iteration and final delivery.
- Clear written and verbal communication. Work closely with stakeholders across disciplines to align on goals clarify priorities and keep teams informed as designs evolve.
- Data-informed decision-making using qualitative and quantitative insights; experience operating within agile product development.
- Request and synthesize feedback respond quickly to pivots and changing priorities and balance independent work with effective cross-functional collaboration.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the worlds most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has Kingsters in Stockholm Malmö London Barcelona Berlin Dublin San Francisco New York Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Mechanical Design
- Computer Graphics
- GD&T
- Root cause Analysis
- CAD
- Mechanical Knowledge
- Creo
- Lua
- Unreal Engine
- Maya
- Project Engineering
- Unity
About Company
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, ... View more
