Lead Game Designer

4 weeks ago

Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Rebellion Full time

Game Design Leadership Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Game Design Director to lead our talented team on an unannounced project. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to help shape the development right from the very start.

Your role is to manage, direct and deliver game design direction for the project. Your focus is to lead a team of Game Designers to deliver high quality levels in line with your direction.

This role is based at our headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our headquarters. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we're open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire a team of Game Designers with best practice people management techniques.
  • Proactively manage your team's performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.
  • Be a mediator for your team, proactively identify and resolve conflict swiftly and efficiently, diffusing problems and maintaining positive working relationships within your team.
  • Collaborate with Design Directors and the Production team to define and balance creative vision with production realities.
  • Communicate and champion the design direction to your team and ensure they remain up to date with evolving briefs.
  • Regularly review your team's work against the design brief and provide actionable feedback to make improvements, incorporating appropriate feedback from key stakeholders.
  • Verify the quality of design in the game, give feedback to designers and suggest improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction. Ensure correct documentation workflows and process are followed throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Plan and conduct gameplay evaluations with the Design Director, and the team providing feedback and suggestions to help fine tune and improve the game.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of 3D software such as Blender, 3D Studio Max or Maya.
  • Expert knowledge of creating game design documents, prototype specifications and production pipelines.
  • Willingness and ability to deliver high quality results using tools and processes required to get the job done.
  • Expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / time-bound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction.
  • Proactively ensure the game design serves the audience of the game, is appropriate to the state of the market, and uses the most appropriate business model given the resources available.
  • Able to develop resolutions to unusually challenging problems and mentor individuals and teams to solve problems creatively.
  • Able to plan and prioritise work, balancing resources, skills, priorities, and timescales to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to give and gather information to effectively communicate information and exert influence whilst building long-term, trusting relationships with a wide range of people, and building trust within multiple teams.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

  • 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
  • Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
  • Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
  • Enhanced Family Leave
  • Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
  • Plus loads more... including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city's train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

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