Senior Game Designer required at Coatsink Studio

Senior Game Designer required at Coatsink Studio

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