Junior Game Designer
Stillfront Group
JavaJavaScriptPHPSQLUnity
Salary
💰 $50,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Focus on Live Games production from a production perspective, including roadmaps, scoping, dependencies, and release of content updates
- Manage Live Service Production with internal and external development partners across a slate of titles
- Take the lead as a developer’s primary point of contact, creating project and milestone schedules, post-launch content update planning, and overall development plans
- Provide ongoing management checks and balance throughout the live operations of the title, from launch onwards
- Collaborate across the Production organization to de-risk titles, update leadership on status and risks, and loop in key cross-functional partners as needed
- Partner with Developers and crossfunctional teams to ensure priorities align with roadmaps
- Partner with QA & Release Ops teams to ensure games are maintained and updated as needed
- Identify and lead game initiatives to ensure teams have goals, frameworks and priority to succeed
- Partner with business development and creative teams to make right decisions for developers and members
- Understand and review KPIs in a Live Services context and collaborate to improve those KPIs
- Help resolve unique and complex product issues to get the job done
- Identify risks early and remove roadblocks and performance bottlenecks
- Work cross-functionally to create a healthy team culture with communication and transparency
- Review and track project milestones to ensure quality, on-time delivery, and timely payments
- Develop and maintain strong partnerships with external partners
- Identify potential risks and proactively escalate issues as needed
Requirements
- 2+ years of Live Service production experience, preferably from mobile F2P gaming
- 4+ years experience in game production with experience shipping and/or running live services on multiple games (GaaS, F2P, mobile, web, console, handheld)
- Experience in planning and execution, specifically post-launch/live services in games. (console, PC, or mobile)
- Understanding of Live Games KPI data and how to drive improvements to those KPIs to deliver success
- Experience overseeing the full lifecycle of game development with a specific focus on post-launch live service operations
- Knowledge of Live Service production, the difficulties generally encountered by teams and solutions tailored to their requirements
- Experience leading complex cross-functional projects with successful delivery of quality, schedule and in balancing scope, capacity, budget, risk, and time
- Experience with bug tracking software such as JIRA
- Ability to influence direction, without relying on positional authority
- You have an uncanny knack for arriving at solutions through unconventional methods and developing a plan to put them into action
- You have excellent communication and are able to work with a variety of people, effectively communicating everything from data to creative feedback
- Passion for video games, innovations in software and how they enrich the player experience
- Experience managing a portfolio of games/products of varying scale simultaneously
- Experience with analytics dashboards, project management software, and/or publishing platforms a plus
