Lead Game Designer

We are looking for a talented and experienced Lead Game Designer who would help us guide the engineering team on our partnered AAA titles on Unreal Engine 4 for PC and Consoles.
If you’re up for a challenge, don’t hesitate and apply! 🙂

BECOMING ONE OF THE DRAGONS YOU WILL:

• Assess the workload vs. production capacity, plan the work, and set priorities for the game design team;
• Allocate duties and follow the evolution of the team’s progress on deliverables;
• Able to drive and follow-up on prototyping (both digital and paper based) with other game designers, artists and programmers;
• Develop and own the vision for a game from concept, development to live operations.
• Daily coordination with Production, Art, Tech, Game Design, and other teams — both internal and external teams.
• Define all game features and create relevant game design documentation.
• Oversee implementation of features to ensure they are built according to specs.
• Decide on needed iterations through play-testing, usability, and live ops.
• Partner with the Lead Level Designer and a team of content designers to ensure high quality content in line with the game’s vision.
• Take concepts from one-pagers to complete game designs with the help of your team.
• Participate in prototype efforts to prove-out early design concepts.
• Present new game concepts, designs and stories to executive leadership and stakeholders.
• Drive to build a creative, world-class design culture.
• Ability to communicate your designs and vision to colleagues from different professional backgrounds.
• Thorough understanding of games’ commercial appeal, and motivations to different player demographics.
• Take accountability and ownership of projects from start to finish.
• Work unsupervised and take ownership and full responsibility of specific features and systems.
• Multi-task like a pro.

EXPECTATIONS ARE CLEAR:



• 4-5+ years of game industry experience;
• 2+ years of experience designing games as Lead Designer;
• At least one PC or Console game shipped as a Lead Designer;
• Proficiency in clear communication of complex concepts, including experience in creating project documentation.
• Ability to provide focused and inspiring creative leadership, and to coordinate and motivate a whole team;
• Understanding programming/scripting in game design and experience working with Unreal Engine 4, its *Blueprints, Behaviour Trees, EQS and other such systems;
• Very strong problem-solving abilities;
• Very strong leadership skills and autonomy to drive own creative team;
• Strong English both written and verbal;
• Passion for PC and Console video games is a must!

Grow with us, we’ve got you covered:

• competitive financial reward (yes, we are fair enough);
• challenges to raise your XPs score (professional trainings and conferences, internal mentorship);
• paid vacation and sick leave;
• culture of diversity & inclusion to unite the most outstanding talents;
• community of people who understand your game passion.

Please provide the following information with your email: a CV or a link to your LinkedIn profile and, if possible, a portfolio.
That information will help us get back to you as soon as possible.

Join Dragon’s Lake Entertainment and take challenges you’ve always been dreaming about.