Studio: Star Stable Entertainment
Job Opening: Lead Game Designer
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the directors on the vision and the goals for design. Coaching the project teams to turn those visions into tangible designs.
- Provide design direction to the team, this includes delegating work, coaching, mentoring and planning together with the producer and other stakeholders.
- Spend around 50% of your position doing hands-on design work. Conceptualise, prototype, test and implement gameplay systems.
- Drive discovery phases and other design processes with support from the associate producers.
- Drive collaboration with other disciplines such as art, production and engineering, ensuring alignment and cohesion for the overall game experience.
- Contribute to improvements in our design pipelines and strategy.
- Drive documentation of guidelines, workflows and best practices.
- Stay up to date with relevant game information such as KPIs, player surveys, new releases and updates.
- Conduct 1:1 meetings with the team, recruit, onboard and offboard team members.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Several years of experience as a game designer with a solid understanding of game loops, systems, and their impact on the player experience.
- Experience working with MMOs. Experience working with live service games is a bonus.
- Experience in a leadership role with the ability to coach a team on their personal development and goal setting.
- Experience with prototyping and conceptualizing new gameplay systems and working with system design.
- A will to advocate for players and company goals and contribute to building a culture of constructive feedback within the design craft.
- A passion for solving problems and overcoming challenges.
- Strong knowledge of commercial and proprietary game engines and tools.
- The ability to use data to qualitatively inform design decisions.
- An ability to effectively document and convey ideas, complex concepts, and design visions.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
- Experience in mobile and cross-platform development is considered a big plus.
