Senior Game Designer

Our client is looking for a **Senior Game Designer** to join their 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

**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.

**Who we are**

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

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

**Salary**: Up to £70,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Referral programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Application question(s):

- What experience do you have in the games industry?
- What are you salary expectations please?

**Experience**:

- Games Industry: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Aldershot