Senior Game Designer

- 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 - 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

What we can provide - Competitive salary - Freedom to choose where you work in the UK - Monthly allowance for those who choose to wfh full time - Flexible working hours - Twenty days holiday as standard + an additional day off for your birthday + up to five extra holidays for duration of service - Option to "buy" unlimited additional holidays - One "volunteering day" a year - Enrolment in the company pension scheme - Enhanced and generous maternity and paternity package - Two days dependents leave per year to deal with emergencies - Access to our life insurance policy and WeCare healthcare app - Access to our health insurance cash plan - Annual pay reviews and bi-annual appraisals - Access to relocation support (where applicable) - Investment in your physical health with weekly live and on-demand strength, cardio, yoga and meditation sessions - Investment in your mental health with regular access to training courses and one-to-one wellness sessions and workshops - Access to metro pass and cycle schemes - Free access to some of our previously released titles - R&D days, get-togethers and parties - Work with cutting-edge technology