Lead Game Designer
Multiple
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Ta Xbiex • 🇲🇹 Malta
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Senior
About the role
- Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to define the creative vision, ensuring cohesion, innovation, and a compelling player experience.
- Translate creative concepts into clear, actionable development tasks and documentation.
- Establish and enforce standards to ensure quality, consistency, and compliance throughout development.
- Supervise production processes to deliver high-quality games from concept through final release.
- Make critical decisions balancing creative ambition with technical feasibility and business priorities.
- Design, refine, and optimize engaging game mechanics that enhance player experience and retention.
- Apply mathematical principles to identify and resolve issues in game balance, mechanics, and probability, ensuring fairness and fun.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a cross-disciplinary team of designers, developers, and artists.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Game Designer / Game Producer or in a similar production role in the gaming industry.
- Experience in Live Game development would be regarded as a plus.
- Strong understanding of game development lifecycles and production methodologies.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
- Ability to balance creative vision with business objectives and technical constraints.
- Experience with game mechanics, probability, and basic mathematical modeling is a plus.
- Passion for games and deep understanding of player behavior and market trends
Benefits
- Attractive remuneration package
- Health insurance cover from the first day of work
- Wellness benefit (after probation)
- Optician/Spectacle and Blue Lens Benefit (after probation)
- Breakfast/lunch all week
- Monthly snacks allowance
- Training support
- Modern office facilities
- Dog-friendly workplace
- Exciting Company Events
- Monthly Beer Fridays
- Eur1,000 Refer a friend bonus
- Relocation package (if required)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
game designgame productiongame mechanicsmathematical modelinggame balanceprobability
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationorganizationalleadershipmentoring