Senior Game Designer, Game Studio

Netflix-posted 9 months ago
$60,000 - $270,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Los Angeles, CA
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In our studio, designers bridge innovative gameplay with our ability to tell amazing stories. This involves working closely with narrative, writing, art, and engineering to bring these ideas to life. This role will require a deep understanding of not only high-level design principles; but of genre storytelling, strong implementation of innovative ideas, cinematic techniques, and narrative integration.

  • Strong collaboration with cross-discipline game and studio leadership
  • Working closely with engineering and narrative to craft innovative controls that drive storytelling
  • Design and implement engaging mechanics, including player verbs, environment interactions, and upgrades that are viscerally satisfying and joyful to use again and again
  • Develop and streamline game design workflows to boost creativity and efficiency, empowering the team to deliver top-tier content
  • Partnering well with a global team of designers across time zones and development cultures
  • Planning, writing, and executing on cross-discipline designs
  • Improving and providing feedback on the holistic gameplay experience
  • 8+ years of game design work with Senior experience highly preferred
  • 2+ shipped games as a hands-on game designer
  • Experience implementing gameplay content using proprietary and industry-standard tools
  • Strong game design and communication skills
  • Strong Unity and C# skills and fluency
  • Familiarity with the language of cinematic storytelling and narrative design
  • Familiarity with programming and logic concepts
  • Passionate about storytelling, video games, and video game development
  • Enthusiastic about innovation and exploring groundbreaking design ideas to tell stories in new ways within games
  • Strengths include being goal-oriented, conscientious, tenacious, thoughtful, meticulous, organized, and being both a great listener and communicator
  • Self-starter that works well autonomously and willing to find solutions, be curious, and ask questions when needed
  • Guide and mentor about your expertise on an interdisciplinary team: leveling up designers under you and educating experts from other disciplines
  • Filters team creative ideas, ambitions, and goals through the lens of strategy and pragmatic next steps
  • Receptive to and skilled at giving and receiving critique and feedback
  • Lifelong learner who wants to bring experience and knowledge to the project and team every day
  • Health Plans
  • Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Disability Programs
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • Paid leave of absence programs
  • Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off
  • Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off
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