Head of Design

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Sports Interactive Ltd Full time
Job reference

  • Company Name
  • Sports Interactive Ltd
  • Salary
  • Competitive
  • Location
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Industry sector
  • Design
  • Job start date
  • ASAP
  • Posted date
  • 10/01/202 Experience Level
  • Director
  • Job type
  • Permanent | Full Time
  • Remote / Hybrid
  • Yes
As a Head of Design at Sports Interactive, you will lead a cross functional department tasked with creating designs and concepts for Foot

Job Title:
Head of Design

Team:
Design

Location:
SI HQ, Here East, London

Reporting to:
Director of Development

Position Overview


As a Head of Design at Sports Interactive, you will lead a cross functional department tasked with creating designs and concepts for Football Manager across all platforms.

You will be pragmatic and able to evaluate process and individual Designer's strengths, with a proven ability to adapt, collaborate, and work constructively in solving problems across multiple disciplines.

In previous roles, you will have successfully navigated the compromise between achieving the product-vision perfectly, and achieving other important project goals, seeing your project through to successful completion.


This role reports into the Director of Development with a dotted line to the Studio Director who oversees the creative vision.

**Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the creative output of Sports Interactive titles.
  • Providing leadership and mentorship to a creative and diverse team, i ncluding hiring, career path development, and growth.
  • Partner with the Studio Director to set design strategy within the Studio. Owning process to continually evaluate and update product vision documents for all Sports Interactive titles across all platforms, ensuring that what we're working towards aligns to the vision at all times
  • Encourage a creative team that can contribute to ideas, building and maintaining a team culture that is based around trust, innovation, iteration, learning, collaboration, and sharing
  • Work closely with the Design Leadership Team to make decisions that lead to successful and harmonious implementation of assets, mechanics, and features.
  • Support the team to ensure that the project vision is reflected in all stages of design and implementation of game mechanics, systems, controls, narrative, and the player experience.
  • Enable the design team to consistently perform at their best by providing clear, precise direction with sufficient flexibility for individual creativity.
  • Observe the dynamic and workflow of the team. Creatively evolve, adjust, and implement process to ensure success, harmony, and a balanced workload.
  • Be a representative of the Creative discipline both internally and externally.
  • Interact with all relevant stakeholders to drive timely, seamless, and successful rollouts/launches.
  • Must be a team player and a role model for collaboration and inclusivity.
**Requirements

  • Proven experience in a management and leadership capacity, heading up a Design function working with multiple game technologies/engines and tools and have a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities each offers.
  • Passion and energy for amazing games design.
  • A deep understanding of design mechanics and systems, as well as game direction and vision.
  • The ability to direct teams in the use of best practices to create robust and wellstructured content.
  • Used to working closely with product, engineering, and leadership teams.
  • Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
  • Peoplecentric and nurturing leadership skills, to deal with a wide variety of people and situations, with experience working with large, crossdiscipline teams.
  • Exceptional organisation and time management skills with the ability to selfmanage time and workload.

Studio Overview
Sports Interactive (SI) is an ambitious development studio creating immersive sports management simulations. Since 1994, we've captivated a global pool of players with our iconic, BAFTA award-winning game, Football Manager.

We're a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA having caught their attention in 2006 with our continuous critical and commercial success.

We're a tenacious community, coming together at the Here East technology hub in Stratford, East London. Always expanding, the SI team takes on the gaming genre through a diverse array of disciplines.

But no matter how big we dream, we keep our approach (and your schedule) flexible, creating a relaxed atmosphere where collaboration can thrive.


Working Here


We approach everything with passion, whether that's making our mark on the gaming and football industries or doing our bit for the world around us.

We want to share that outlook with everyone who shows up to work here each day.


We like our talent tenacious, so you can expect to surround yourself with other ambitious individuals bringing their A-game to many different disciplines.

We know collaboration is the key to constantly topping our best, and encourage

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