Lead Game Designer (m/ f/ d) - 5798

Responsibilities

1. Vision-Keeping: Define, maintain, and communicate the creative vision for our games, ensuring it aligns with our strategic goals and resonates with our player base.
2. Design Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a small team of game designers, fostering creativity and collaboration to achieve high-quality results.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the key liaison between the design team and other departments, including programming, graphic design, and marketing, to ensure seamless integration of all game elements.
4. Stakeholder Presentations: Prepare and present game concepts, progress updates, and design strategies to upper management, articulating the vision and rationale behind design decisions.
5. Game Concept Development: Develop and refine game mechanics, systems, and features that enhance player engagement and satisfaction.
6. Review Policy: Ensure the quality, consistency, and innovation of game design across all features, from concept through to final release.
7. Data-Driven Improvements: Analyze game performance metrics and player feedback to inform ongoing improvements and updates.
8. Project Oversight: Oversee the design aspects of the development process, ensuring timelines and budgets are met while maintaining the creative integrity of the product.

Requirements

1. Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Game Design, Computer Science, or a related field.
2. Proven Experience: 5+ years of experience in game design, with a strong focus on online-, mobile- and multiplayer games.
3. Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a small design team, with a track record of successful project delivery.
4. Creative Vision: Exceptional creative skills with a deep understanding of game mechanics, player behavior, and industry trends.
5. Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of game engines like Unity or Unreal Engine and familiarity with programming languages such as C++ or C#.
6. Communication Excellence: Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
7. Strategic Thinking: Experience in aligning game design with business objectives and player expectations.

Benefits

Why you will love working at BIGPOINT…

• Entertain millions of players with high-quality games, disrupt the markets with new multiplayer ideas in multiple different genres and tech projects.
• Matrix structure that offers the possibility to work on multiple projects with a lean hierarchy for fast decision-making.
• Work-Life Benefits: fully remote from around Germany, flexible working hours, 30 days of vacation.
• Visa & Relocation Support
• Wellbeing Benefits: attractive rates for a gym membership in cooperation with QUALITRAIN.
• Mental Health Benefits: anonymous employee counselling at Fürstenberg Institute.
• Activity Package: regular team events, hackathons, and company events.
• Education Package: yearly education budget for every employee.

Contact

For direct application: please send only completed application (CV, Cover Letter, References) to and refer to the job reference number.#J-18808-Ljbffr