Studio: Miniclip
Job Opening: Game Designer
Location: Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Design and craft gameplay experiences and game features that deliver strong player engagement, retention, and monetization, collaborating cross discipline to meet the desired goals.
- Participate as a key member of the product team across the product life-cycle, working on games in production, and live titles, owning and creating high-impact gameplay content updates for our existing portfolio of games.
- Collaborate across the team to expand and iterate internal tools used for design and gameplay implementation.
- Present and articulate your designs across the team and with stakeholders, upholding the design vision and rationale in a clear manner.
- Review and iterate game design implementation both during production and post release, incorporating feedback from key stakeholders and suggest changes to balance and improve the game content based on analytics data.
- Help identify and deconstruct new markets and opportunities, expanding the portfolio of the company and staying in the cutting edge of the mobile gaming industry.
- Support the team with subject-matter expertise on mobile game design.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 3+ years experience in economy and gameplay design on mobile, preferably on sports titles.
- Strong knowledge of the mobile game space, with an exceptional understanding of current design techniques to deliver excellent engagement, retention, and monetization.
- Experience across the product life-cycle, from prototyping, through production, to updating a live free-to-play game.
- Understanding of, and experience with reviewing game analytics, developing insights based on data to make better-informed design decisions.
- Strong grasp of mobile user-experience design, and ability to consider & empathize with many different types of players.
- Creative problem solver, with proven ability to create compelling features.
- Relentlessly self-critical: always sees the pros and cons of each approach, and works tirelessly to improve design solutions. Prolific with high-quality, well-thought-through proposals.
- Drive, initiative, and proactivity with the ability to self-manage effectively with a highly organized approach.
- Great collaborator, with superb written and oral communication skills.
- Preferable high interest in sports, football in particular
