About the role
What will you be doing on a day-to-day basis?
This position requires working in hybrid model in our Warsaw office
Ownership & Vision
- Taking ownership and developing the game direction,
- Owning the game's trajectory from first concept & prototypes to market & release, taking full accountability for the delivery of a high-quality, enjoyable & positive player experience with commercial success,
- Work with creative leadership and members of the management team to define the game and unify visions,
- Delivering guidelines, mandates to the team to design specific gameplay features,
- Translating the creative vision into design mechanics, systems and whole player experience,
- Ensuring that all elements work together to fulfill the vision,
- Manage various creative ideation steps from pitching ideas to rapid prototyping,
- Adapting to technical & production constraints and readjusting design direction if needed,
- Ensuring strong alignment with the CCO and CPO on the creative and production vision.
Production
- Reviewing and debating budgets & schedules with the producers,
- Working with production team to set the best direction and track the progress during game production,
- Supporting best practices through the production process.
Cooperation & Leadership
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure cohesion of all conceptual, technical, visual and narrative elements,
- Supporting designers in delivering high quality features that enhance game’s vision,
- Working with tech team to evolve technology and ensure that it supports game direction,
- Resolving creative and technical roadblocks,
- Hands-on attitude while using tools and leading all teams by example.
Feedback
- Regularly play the game for feedback and quality control purposes,
- Support team members in feature development and provide mentoring and constructive feedback to reach quality.
Market research
- Anticipate technological advances and stay informed of market trends to evolve our production processes and define best practices, and share them with our studios,
- Aligning the creative vision with the project's business goals and target audience expectations.
- Following market trends to update the production processes and our best practices.
Requirements
What will help you succeed in this role?
- At least 7 years of experience with a focus on design, art or creative direction,
- Experience in game design will be a big plus and advantage,
- Experience as Game Director, Creative Director, Design Lead/Director or Art Director/Lead,
- Experience in leading teams with size of at least 20 developers,
- Experience with prototyping and shipping games using Unreal Engine and knowledge of its limitations,
- Very good knowledge of both Polish and English (minimum B2 level),
- Understanding of our approach - meaningful entertainment & relatable games
- Proven experience in working on games with similar approach will be a big plus and advantage
- Mindset & Attitude
- Towards creative work: Innovative, creative, curiosity
- Towards people: empathetic, collaborative
- Toward project: problem solving, critical thinking, strong adaptability;
- Ability to examine data and draw meaningful conclusions;
- Very good communication, organizational, interpersonal and mentoring skills,
- Deep understanding of the gamedev market & current trends and a strong passion for video games.
What we offer?
- Health and Wellness
- psychological support/care
- private medical package
- Multisport
- Development
- team training budget
- in-office library
- Our office
- near Metro Stadion Narodowy and Dworzec Wschodni stations
- dog-friendly
- in-house gym
- no dress code
- car and bike parking
- chill zone
- video, board and arcade games
- Working conditions
- flexible working hours
- hybrid work (3 days from office, 2 days from home + additional pool of remote days per year)
- 20 or 26 days of fully-paid holiday leave
- international working environment
- Fair compensation
- attractive bonus system – annual bonus, motivation programme
- transparent salary brackets
- Events and more
- attendance in game dev events
- relocation budget for candidates from abroad
- referral program
- annual company events
- merch/swag
- preferential loans
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