Senior Game Designer

1 month ago

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Mediabistro Full time
Job Title: Senior Game Designer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Game Designer to join our team at Maxis. As a Senior Game Designer, you will be responsible for championing game design direction on the project, inspiring internal and external teams through progressive and innovative game design.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with leadership to define design direction and craft clear design briefs, documentation, mockups, and presentations.
  • Develop a deep understanding of new trends driving player expectations, including the latest in life simulation, adventure games, cozy games, and the gaming industry in general.
  • Partner with consumer insights, brand, data analytics, and commercial to break down and understand underlying player motivations while driving solution to problems.
  • Proactively communicate progress, project opportunities and risks, and resolution of problems with the ability to set guidelines for internal and external partners and stakeholders.
  • Work directly with design teams, production, quality assurance, artists, and engineering to bring feasibility and appropriate scoping to your design briefs.
  • Interface daily with development teams, including attending scrum meetings, milestone planning, triage, status meetings, etc.
  • Ensure a high-quality product is developed for our players and community; be accountable for quality targets as well as the results.
  • Establish design-related engagement processes: Ensure all workflows are clearly defined and processes are well documented in partnership with production.
  • Motivate and inspire development team to meet goals and deliverables, while maintaining positive team morale and collaborative team behavior.
  • Welcome feedback and criticism and enjoy working in a cross-functional, iterative environment.
  • Strong ability to align and drive deliverables.
  • Participate in regular playtests and coordinate play sessions with development team members.
Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of experience in game design and leading feature design or game teams and defining game design.
  • Experience designing, launching, monitoring, and evolving a live service title.
  • Broad and in-depth knowledge of game design, including ability to develop core game pillars, core game loops, detailed feature design, and narrative design.
  • Experience inspiring an organization or team through influence and passion despite reporting lines.
  • Ability to break down complex problems into consumable and actionable pieces for implementation.
  • Ability to conceptualize, create, and implement game concepts using tools to communicate your ideas.
  • Excellent knowledge of production life cycle, processes, and project planning.
  • Experience in a Scrum / Agile and waterfall software development environment.
  • Experience with Jira/Jaas, Perforce, and other project management tools.
  • Shipped at least 1 AAA titles in large (100+ person) game teams on PC/Mac/Console/Mobile platforms, ideally on multiple platforms.
  • Shipped at least 1 Live Service game and have experience with incident management, change management, and release planning.
  • Must be willing to work flexible/later hours with partners in different time zones on a regular basis.
  • Proven success speaking publicly with confidence.
Bonus Qualifications:
  • Partial or full fluency in Japanese.
  • Experience working with simulation games.
  • Experience working with outsourcing and external partners.
  • Love of Sims games.

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