Lead Game Designer

This role is dedicated for candidates that are either based in Ontario or willing to relocate to Ontario. Our Client is an international, award-winning entertainment company providing unique and deeply engaging mobile games that are played by tens of millions of people across the globe. You will lead a team of talented Game Designers, mentor them to success, and drive ideas from conception to fruition. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the top creative and analytical talents in a highly profitable mobile game development studio with an array of perks and respect for employee quality of life and personal time.

Responsibilities:

• As a lead and experienced colleague, you will be empowered to make the right design decisions for the users of our mobile games using live data, customer feedback, and experience.
• Develop systems that can be reused, iterated upon, and altered in a live operations environment.
• Transform data-driven ideas into detailed and well-thought-out designs, clearly communicated with high-quality documentation, wireframes, flows, and spreadsheets.
• Lead your design team to define the creative specifications so that developers can implement them and that you can make alterations to the idea to improve them later.
• Set daily work assignments for your team of designers, leading them toward the achievement of its defined objectives.  
• Participate in regular, hands-on interaction with producers and software engineers to ensure that the concepts and content of assigned games meet design requirements.  
• Synthesize key performance indicators, user testing, and internal feedback to recommend design solutions and modify the game mechanics accordingly.
• Work directly with engineers, artists, and product managers throughout the lifecycle of owned features to ensure they are of the highest quality.
• Stay current with and deconstruct game design trends, patterns, and consumer preferences.
• Be a team player - we are a collaborative, supportive, results-focused, ego-free group.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in mobile free-to-play game design.
• 2+ years of experience in a Lead or Manager capacity.
• Expert specs, wireframes, flows, and feature documentation for a live game.
• Expert systems design and game tuning for free-to-play games.
• Expert knowledge of virtual goods and game monetization concepts.
• Expert economic modeling and balance skills.
• Expert knowledge of the free-to-play market, and it's past and current trends.
• Ability to work as part of a large, fast-paced team in sprints.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with other members of the design team.

Nice to have:

• Understanding of current trends in mobile PvP games.
• Understanding of current trends in blockchain and its application in games.
• Experience with both original and IP game development.
• Previous design experience on a top 100 grossing game.
• Familiarity with scripting languages or other technical skills related to game development.
• Experience mentoring or managing other designers.
• Expert level experience with tools like JIRA, and Google Docs/Sheet/Slides.
• Prototyping/scripting experience.

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