Studio: Third Kind Games
Job Opening: Lead Game Designer
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Understanding our consumer needs and ensuring the designs developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment, managing the game mechanics, core loops and game systems that make our games more fun to play.
- Leading and managing Game Designers to deliver projects on time.
- High standards, responsible for delivering high-quality documentation with coherent and compelling visions of game features from you and your team.
- Working with our team to support the delivery of fresh and innovative ideas for games.
- Maintaining a close working relationship with the management team, producers, leads, directors and other teams to raise project quality.
- Mentoring and assisting your colleagues to support their personal development.
- Lead and motivate a team that designs game systems, content and level design to craft an engaging player experience.
- Make useful contributions to our creative planning sessions, scrums, and retrospectives and help us drive the development of our projects and the team.
- Be naturally inquisitive, you keep up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and cascade according to support the development of your team.
- Collaborate and communicate well with internal teams and customers to realise a shared vision.
- Talk and write enthusiastically about game ideas, championing their potential.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years industry experience in game design positions.
- 2 + years experience leading a small team of designers.
- Strong, passionate communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proven ability to deliver fun gameplay features that keeps players wanting more.
- Ambition and motivation.
Skills it would be great to have
Experience with:
- Unity, Unreal, or similar game engines.
- All stages of a project, from concept to launch.
- Modern console development.
