Lead Technical Game Designer

3 tygodni temu

Warsaw, Polska People Can Fly Pełny etat
Job Description

  • Assigns, delegates, and supports individuals in their tasks, monitoring and reviewing the progress of their work.
  • Provides constructive feedback and clear communications to enhance behavior and performance, ensuring a continuous improvement approach. Takes responsibility for evaluating their direct reports during periodic performance reviews, providing valuable insights and assessments toward their career development.
  • Fosters an engaging atmosphere within their team, as well as ensuring a healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work, empowering individuals to propose solutions, and express their opinions. Utilizes data such as pulse checks and satisfaction scores.
  • Collaborates and communicates effectively with other Leads, Directors,  departments and project stakeholders on a continuous basis in order to notably build trust and work toward the project’s objectives and ambitions.
  • Follows the Director’s guidance/vision and implements it. Cntributes to the Director’s direction by providing important data, raising issues, seeking advice and relays them to relevant project leaders
  • Provide mentorship, direction and best in class Technical Game Design principles to ensure quality results and efficient working practices.
  • Work very closely with the Creative Director and other leads to understand and establish the vision and evangelize this to the Technical Game Design team.
  • Provide day-to-day feedback and creatively solve problems.
  • Work with production team on tasks assignment and a team schedule.
  • Create and develop Game Mechanics to ensure that the Creative Director's vision is reflected as playable and fun experience.
  • Owning, prototyping, iterating on, and implementing and balancing game systems.
  • Full ownership of the produced function - from conceptual and paper design, through the prototyping phase, scripting, iteration, debugging, optimization - until delivery of the game.
  • To establish and maintain standards of game design documentation.
  • To drive and follow-up on prototyping with other game designers and/or programmers.
  • Conduct playtest sessions for involved developers (level designers, artists, animators and programmers) to discuss and improve implemented prototypes.
  • Remain current on industry trends, including new game genres, new game design methods and techniques, and trending audio visual excellence.
  • Conduct consistent performance reviews of staff members.
  • Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
  • Conduct onboarding to new hires.
  • 80% of time spent in Engine.

Qualifications

  • Typically 7+ years including prior experience in any leadership capacity
  • Typically at least 2 shipped titles in a senior role, with a history of successful features. 
  • Excellent knowledge of Unreal Engine 5.
  • Strong Leadership and mentoring skills.
  • Good presentation skills.
  • Strong problem solving and trouble-shooting skills.
  • Excellent theoretical & practical knowledge of game design practices.
  • Deep understanding of systems design, player psychology, and emerging industry trends.
  • Excellent creativity to generate innovative concepts, mechanics and ideas.
  • Expert understanding and experience with the modern Game Design techniques used in AAA games.
  • Experience working with a variety of established game toolsets.
  • Solid experience in owning, prototyping, iterating on, and implementing and balancing player progression systems on RPG titles.
  • Experience with visual scripting systems.
  • Proficiency with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence).
  • Self-motivation.
  • Knowledge of RPG genre games.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.


Additional Information

  • Private medical healthcare including dental treatment for PCF members and their families (Signal Iduna).
  • MultiSport card for you and your family members or friends.
  • Free library with a wide range of games and books you have unlimited access to.
  • In-company Polish and English language classes.
  • Fresh fruit, snacks, and beverages for everyone in the office.
  • Flexible working hours.
  • Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions are included in the plan for members and their dependents.
  • Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
  • Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.

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