Our community is on the lookout for a Lead Game Designer to join our rapidly growing team.
Digital Arrow is a studio headquartered in Novi Sad, Serbia.
As a gamedev studio we partner with like-minded entrepreneurs and executives working on cutting edge game technology challenges.
We like to tackle challenging AAA, AA projects and we strive towards making the best quality scenery, gameplay, and buzz in games. Our experience with Unreal Technology allows us to fully deliver products using battle-tested, high-end development environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Game Design Team
- Assign work to team members, provide feedback and make sure tasks are completed in time, following the highest quality and efficiency standards
- Mentor team members, offer guidance and direction, and ensure their constant growth by helping them set and achieve S.M.A.R.T. development goals
- Work alongside a cross-functional team to oversee all aspects of design, including gameplay, features, levels, narrative and UX
- Understand the principles of good game design and ways to achieve highly engaging and innovative gaming experience
- Be vigilant, review the game constantly and identify areas of improvement
- Maintain a healthy work environment that will inspire ideas and initiatives by encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing within the team
- Create new and improve the existing work processes, while ensuring the detailed design documentation for projects and systems is made and regularly updated
- Participate and contribute to project planning process by helping identify impediments and offering solutions to problems
- Evaluate and report the team performance to your supervisors on regular basis and participate in company’s annual evaluation process
- Collaborate with the team in the hiring process for the Design division
Requirements
- Extensive game development and content creation experience on AA and AAA games, completing implementation from concept to delivery
- Excellent ability to organize and structure own work and that of the team
- Ability to lead others and passionate about managing and mentoring a team
- Great team player; ability to collaborate and coordinate efforts on all levels
- Great ability to actively listen, communicate ideas, concepts and negotiate solutions
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Passion for video games; an avid gamer with a deep understanding of gaming language and culture, industry standards, trends and technologies
Preferred candidates with
- Experience in Unreal Technology
- Technical ability to prototype game mechanics with minimal engineering support
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years of professional game development experience
- Out of which a minimum of 3 years in Lead/Production/Management role and at least 1 shipped titles
Why you’ll love working here
Our workplace perks and benefits are designed to help employees grow both personally and professionally. While striving to nurture our culture and creative environment, we make sure we take care of the people we hire.
Become a part of our collaborative environment offering support, mentoring, and guidance throughout your professional gamedev career.
- Competitive compensation
- 25+ vacation days
- Personalized career path and growth opportunities
- Best-in-class learning and development opportunities
- High level of creative freedom- you won’t waste time on endless meetings getting several levels of approvals
- Innovative, amazing interactive media projects
- Reskilling, upskilling, and flexible development opportunities
- High Tech work environment
- One hour lunch break and flexible working hours
- Flexible Sick day & Sick leave policy
Are you Up for the challenge? Let’s give it a try!
