Studio: NaturalMotion
Job Opening: Lead Systems Designer – Star Wars
Location: Austin, TX/ London, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with product and analytics stakeholders to identify features that will support and grow the success of the game, helping shape roadmap strategy and prioritization.
- Writing detailed design specifications for major game systems that marry KPI and design goals, while accounting for interactions with existing features and the game’s economy.
- Clearly present and communicate your designs to project leads and members of the development team.
- Collaborating closely with the UX discipline to ensure that complex features are visualized in a clear and engaging way.
- Developing extensible and data-driven solutions that can be easily operated in a live-ops environment.
- Leading the feature design team in the successful delivery of features, reviewing design documentation and providing guidance to the team.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Experience as a lead designer in the mobile gaming industry and the free-to-play market.
- Experience designing for a live-ops game with a strong understanding of key performance indicators and analytics.
- Experience writing detailed design specifications for meta-systems with the ability to define data structures and tuning parameters.
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders across multiple disciplines, including analytics, product, and user experience design.
- Working within a live-ops environment; collaborating with analytics to understand user behavior and react to live data.
- Experience working with competitive multiplayer games or other mid-core titles.
- Experience leading and mentoring design talent.