Studio: Coatsink
Job Opening: Senior Game Designer
Location: Sunderland, UK
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Creating and updating the design of a game to achieve the project’s core pillars
- Assisting the Lead Designer by taking ownership of features, and championing the project’s design direction, both internally and externally
- Keeping all members of the team up to date on the project’s design and progress
- When required, managing a team of designers on a project, prioritising tasks and streamlining development processes
- Supporting and coaching less experienced members of the design team
- Working, planning and communicating with team leads and the Design Manager to ensure the development team have the resources needed to build the game
- Assisting the Lead Designer in reviewing all design work to ensure it meets the project’s design
- Ensuring all design documentation is kept organised and up to date
- Communicating with external collaborators on a project to keep them up to date on the project’s design
- Creating and maintaining design documentation, including feature specification and implementation guidelines
- Helping to organise and encouraging the rest of the team to participate in regular team ‘show and tell’ meetings, to share information, learn and collaborate on problem solving
- Develop prototypes and explore new game ideas
- Participate in research and development exercises.
- Participate to market studies and propose new game concepts/ideas
- Undertake any other reasonable assigned duty, that is line with postholders skills, knowledge and ability
Qualifications & Skills:
Qualifications
- Relevant university degree or a strong up to date project portfolio
- May have additional postgraduate, management or continuing professional development CPD qualifications
Experience
- At least 4 years’ experience working in a game design role
- Several titles shipped while working in a game design role
- Significant experience in a Designer role on a released unity-based game
- Significant Unity experience
- Substantial experience using Atlassian software (Jira, Confluence etc)
- Experience leading a team on a released title and supporting and coaching less experienced team members
- Significant experience working within a variety of project management methodologies, such as SCRUM
- Some experience of developing for VR, significant experience would be ideal
Skills
- Excellent writing skills and a passion for storytelling
- Innovative problem-solving skills
- Competent art / graphic design skills to help elevate design documentation and get ideas across
- Highly developed communication skills
- Competent IT skills
- The ability to lead, impart information, encourage and support junior or less experienced members of the team
Knowledge
- Very thorough and expansive understanding of level design, UX design, and game design fundamentals
- Very thorough understanding of games market and target audience
- Competent practical knowledge of scripting or visual scripting
Aptitude
- Skilled in working in both small and large teams
- Adept at adapting quickly to changes and new problems
- Adept at taking and seeking out constructive criticism and using it to improve designs and workflows
- Strong passion for playing video games across a wide variety of genres and advanced analysis of what
makes them good/bad
A champion and exemplar of Coatsink’s key values and contributor to the company culture including –
- Highly proficient and effective at working in both small and large teams
- Highly skilled at adapting quickly to changes and new problems
- Highly adept at taking and seeking out constructive criticism and using it to improve designs and workflows
- Self-motivated, confident in your own expertise, and able to work with independence
- Strong passion for playing video games across a wide variety of genres and advanced analysis of what makes them good/bad
- Willing to embrace, promote and live the Coatsink values
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, visit https://coatsink.com/careers/senior-game-designer#open-overlay