Lead Game Designer
Job Summary
- Build and direct high level feature roadmap in collaboration with the Core Team and Production to translate objectives into concrete features and plan the development roadmap.
- Plan and drive the development of game features: set priorities structure the team assign design owners to topics and assess seniority and future hiring needs (participating in the hiring process).
- Design engaging systemic content loops (e.g. seasonal arcs events limited-time modes) that are high in perceived player value while efficient to produce reusing and remixing existing assets and mechanics wherever possible; set success metrics and iterate based on data and player behavior.
- Create a framework for detailed designs and identify requirements together with co-leads directors and production.
- Collaborate with the Game Design Team on prioritizing and assigning tasks discussing progress tackling setbacks and finding solutions while ensuring good communication with other teams with the help of producers.
- Mentor and coach game designers supporting their growth in seniority and career development.
- Champion your designs through the full development cycle from conception through iteration to release and post-launch support designing within the boundaries set by the Game Director and challenging them constructively when needed.
- Support implementation of designed features in a structured way: prototyping iteration balancing and delivery adapting designs as needed along the way.
- Identify improvements to workflows tools and designers pipelines to increase efficiency.
Qualifications :
- Senior experience in game design with at least 1 shipped AAA title as a Lead Game Designer or Senior Game Designer.
- Strong grounding in systemic game design and long-term engagement/content loops (live service experience a plus).
- Data literacy comfortable defining KPIs and using live performance data to inform design decisions.
- Structured professional approach to game design and production methodologies.
- Proactive supportive attitude toward all members of the development team.
- Excellent communication skills written and verbal.
- Very good command of English.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- A dedicated Buddy who will support you in your daily tasks.
- A wide array of benefits: private medical care life insurance pro-health campaigns gifts for different occasions.
- An outstanding work atmosphere in a highly-skilled team of professionals with flexible working hours no dress code and full support of the dedicated HR Business Partner.
- Many opportunities for personal development: a dedicated development budget for each employee extra two paid days for training and CSR stable career paths extensive internal and external training and financing of English and Polish language classes.
- State-of-the-art offices filled with chillout zones a fully equipped kitchen a gym (Wrocław office) and a free car park (Warsaw limited amount of space).
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Techland is one of the biggest and best-known Polish game developers with studios in Wroclaw and Warsaw. For over 30 years, we've carried a tradition of providing gamers with unforgettable experiences. We're an international team of over 550 highly-skilled professionals driven by a pa ... View more