Senior Game Designer

2 days ago

Guildford, United Kingdom Playsport Games Full time

**THE POSITION**

Playsport Games is looking for a **Senior Game Designer **to join our friendly Games Studio based in
**Guildford.**

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your free-to-play design career in mobile: help bring new titles to market, and work on highly successful live games at a leading mobile studio

**DUTIES**

Your primary responsibilities will include:

- Design and craft gameplay experiences and game features that deliver strong player engagement, retention, and monetisation.
- Create and craft game content to delight players, and devise & balance meta-game economies to maximise game performance.
- Write, review and give feedback on game/feature design documents, builds, and plans.
- Participate as a key member of the product team across the product life-cycle, working on games in production, and live titles, proposing high-impact updates to our existing portfolio of games.
- Help identify and deconstruct new markets and opportunities, expanding the portfolio of the company and staying in the cutting edge of the mobile gaming industry.
- Work alongside our Data Analytics team to spearhead testing strategies and conduct post mortems
- Assist with reviewing, scheduling & prioritising design team workload.

**SKILLS & EXPERIENCE**
- Significant experience designing multiple successful free-to-play published titles, preferably on mobile.
- Experience across the product life-cycle, from prototyping, through production, to updating a live free-to-play game.
- Strong knowledge of the mobile & social game space, with exceptional understanding of current design techniques to deliver excellent engagement, retention, and monetisation.
- Highly numerate, with a solid mathematical background, and experience designing virtual currencies and managing in-game economies.
- Understanding of and experience with reviewing game analytics, developing insights based on data to make better informed design decisions.
- Strong grasp of mobile user-experience design, and ability to consider & empathise with many different types of players.
- Creative problem solver, with proven ability to create compelling gameplay.
- Relentlessly self-critical: always sees the pros and cons of each approach, and works tirelessly to improve design solutions. Prolific with high quality, well-thought-through proposals.
- Mature judgment, able to balance between innovation and setting reasonable goals.
- Drive, initiative and ability to self-manage effectively.
- Highly organised, with a track-record of guiding & advising others, and prioritising appropriately to deliver to tight deadlines.
- Great collaborator, with superb written and oral communication skills.

**Who we are**

Playsport Games is a supportive and friendly games studio based in Guildford, where everyone plays a full and active role in developing top quality games
We’re the creator of Motorsport Manager, a #1 game on the App Store and a top rated game on Steam.
We’re a passionate and hardworking team with a single aim: making top quality sports games.
As a small team, Playsport is a perfect place for talented developers. We’re looking for people who are excited to get close to the action and want to be deeply involved in the development of a quality game.
We’ve just moved into brand new custom built studio space in the heart of Guildford. It’s posh and there are plenty of nice pubs nearby.

**Benefits**
- 25 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working
- Bright, comfy studio space in the heart of Guildford, the geekily glamorous Hollywood of games, just half an hour by train from central London
- Regular outings, games/pub evenings and ad hoc socials
- Endless supplies of tasty snacks (varying degrees of healthiness)
- Daily trailblazing with a humble, hardworking team of good humans
- Private Medical Insurance
- Cash Plan
- Dental Insurance
- Critical Illness Cover
- Cycle to Work Scheme

There are also plenty of other benefits from working for Playsport We firmly believe that a creative and professional working environment should also be fun. We always have fridges stocked with complimentary drinks, regular deliveries of fresh fruit and snacks for all staff. Along with regular staff outings.

Before you apply, please keep in mind that this role is a full-time, permanent position based at our office in
Guildford, UK, and you must be eligible to work in the UK.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £40,000.00-£60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Guildford, GU1 4SS

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