Senior game designer job description

Responsibilities

• Design and refine systems that delight and satisfy players needs for game play
• Work with other disciplines to build features that meet product goals
• Seek opportunities for new design spaces in collaboration with Product Managers and Design Leadership.
• Create and provide multiple potential designs and solutions. Articulate trade-offs and risks between different options.
• Playtest our game and help push for continued improvements for existing designs and fresh prototypes.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design
• Can create complex systems with attention to the player impacts and downstream effects

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Unity game engine
• Deep knowledge of PvP strategy card games and empathy for PvP strategy card game players
• Experience with in-game systems design
• At least 3 shipped titles
• Experience working on a AAA game

Who we are - Tempo Games Studio

We are a new start up games studio with an incredible game in development. The Bazaar is an infinitely replayable, global and free to play strategy card game for all platforms. In this genre-bending title, you play as an enterprising adventurer on a quest for wealth and glory in an intergalactic marketplace.

We are hiring the best in class talent and our team has collectively delivered more than 100 games, events, and marketing campaigns with the largest companies on the globe, including Epic, Microsoft, Amazon, Activision Blizzard, Capcom, ArenaNet, WarnerBros, Bungie, Sony, and Disney.

Tempo fosters a culture of innovation, inclusion, and passion among our team and fans to deliver impactful experiences that shape the way we all create, entertain, and play. We invest everything into our staff, culture, and product.

About The GSN Games Mountain View Studio:
The Mountain View Studio is a small, tight-knit and fun group of engineers, artists, designers and product people who pride ourselves on crafting very high quality experiences that appeal to a wide array of players. Our most successful game to date is Solitaire Tripeaks by GSN, the #1 revenue solitaire game on mobile that has grown into one of the top 50 grossing games on both iOS and Android.

What You'll Do:
As part of the Game Design team you'll be helping to guide a team of developers as we build innovative, meaningful, revenue-positive game features. Your job is to ensure our games are always fun to play!

You Will:

• Actively advocate for, and lead the design on, current and future features
• Help manage and guide the team during the feature build process
• Have direct input into what we build and why
• Apply analytics and A-B testing to your designs as we work to improve new and live features
• Work to integrate your designs into a broader game vision - using new game, level and meta-game mechanics to deliver a cohesive experience
• Keep up on the latest industry-wide mechanics and trends in an effort to continually evolve and improve the studio's level design expertise.

About You:

You have a passion for creating games, an understanding of the casual mobile market and the ability to know what makes a game fun for all types of players.

You Have:

• 3+ years of game design experience (casual games a bonus!)
• At least one shipped mobile title
• A good understanding of game balancing, free to play mechanics, monetization and player motivations
• Clear communication skills. You work collaboratively with artists, engineers, and other designers to get the best designs possible - you can lead people
• Experience in documenting and communicating gameplay mechanics and features
• Ability to unify analytics and player feedback into great, iterative design solutions
• Worked in the Unity engine (or something similar)

This is your chance to be at the forefront of Netflix's new offering of Video Games.

Netflix is revolutionizing entertainment. We connect people globally with movies and shows by delivering outstanding content and technological innovation through the world's leading streaming entertainment app, with 220 million paid memberships in over 190 countries.

Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and now they can enjoy an expanding collection of Netflix curated and produced Games.

At Netflix, we have an insatiable need to continually improve our product experience and the creative elements that support it, providing great value to our members, and this team sits at the forefront of the effort.

About the Job:

As Senior Game Designer for External Games, you will work directly with the producers to support our developers in building the highest quality games. Ownership of the game and tactical systems design is with the game developers, however, you will provide guidance and feedback throughout the game's development cycle.

Responsibilities:

+ Work with Producers to provide developers with design, art, audio and narrative feedback to ensure we are making the best games

+ Capture, communicate and align creative priorities, risks and opportunities to help guide our games to creative excellence

+ Understand and speak to the game pillars (who is the player, what does the player do, why does it matter) for a wide variety of genres and audiences

+ Work with external developers to ensure the Netflix IP is represented correctly within game adaptations including tone and creative considerations

Qualifications:

+ 7+ years experience, with proven experience developing games in a game design or creative leadership role (social, F2P, mobile, web, console, handheld)

+ Experience working with distributed or external teams

+ Ability to influence direction, without relying on positional authority

+ An excellent knowledge of game design difficulties generally encountered by teams, and an understanding of how to tailor solutions to their unique requirements

+ A record of leading complex cross functional projects with successful delivery of quality in design, art, audio and narrative

+ Experience with Live Service, GaaS or retention oriented design

+ Licensed game experience a plus

About You:

+ You have a proven track record of guiding teams that excel both creatively and strategically to create great work

+ You are able to build strong relationships - positioning yourself as a valued partner in meeting company objectives

+ You are an advocate for the player, connecting needs states, insights and innovations to tangible game mechanics

+ You are comfortable working with frequent context switching and ambiguity

+ You thrive in a fast-paced, high-volume, high-impact environment

+ You are entrepreneurial, self-motivated and embody Netflix's culture of high performance, curiosity, freedom and responsibility