Jam City
Summary
Jam City, a leading mobile games developer, is seeking a Senior Game Designer with at least 6 years of game design experience and 2 years of experience designing mobile free-to-play games. The candidate must have deep feature design experience, covering the entire development cycle including concept exploration, design documentation, guiding the team through development, playtesting, and following through into live ops. The candidate must also have strong demonstrated experience in mobile free to play specific features and a deep understanding of game design theory. The position offers a salary range of $85,000 to $150,000 per year and includes benefits such as unlimited vacation, medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, 401k, and more. Jam City is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer.
Job description
As a leading mobile games developer, Jam City is looking to “level up” our talent. We’re searching for innovators who consider themselves dynamic, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
PERKS & BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation, Paid Sick Days & Holidays
100% Employee Covered Medical, Dental, Vision Plan Base Plan
Life Insurance, 401k, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Benefits & More
Catered Lunches & Well-stocked Kitchens
Yoga & Wellness Activities
Happy Hours
Company Events
We are looking for a Senior Game Designer to bring their expert game design skills to our #1 hit mobile game, Disney Emoji Blitz! You’ll have the opportunity to work with world-class IPs from Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars, creating new game features, new events, and other core mechanics to continue driving the success of the game.
The candidate must have deep feature design experience, covering the entire development cycle including concept exploration, design documentation, guiding the team through development, playtesting, and following through into live ops.
Further, the candidate must have strong demonstrated experience in mobile free to play specific features (i.e. quest/battle pass, prize wheels, login calendars, and other related prize and sale offerings) as well as a deep understanding of game design theory, and be well versed with current top-performing mobile games.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design a variety of core and supporting features, such as collection systems, prize systems, event types, sales, and new merchandising opportunities.
- Write one pagers, Product Requirement docs (PRDs), and detailed GDDs for assigned features.
- Gain deep understanding of the existing game, so new features can be intricately woven into the existing features, events, and meta.
- Ensure features are built according to specs and a high creative quality bar.
- Collaborate with Design leads and Product managers across various pods to ensure features integrate correctly with other systems and planned content.
- Present designs to Emoji Blitz’s game leads, and also executive leadership.
- Follow and anticipate IP guidelines and feedback from Disney, feedback from internal teams, and playtesters. Modify designs as needed.
- Mentor more junior designers to build their expertise.
- Lead and participate in various design brainstorms.
- Provide well thought, actionable feedback on game elements to other designers.
- Continually research market trends, and incorporate up-to-the-minute features and strategies.
- Implement content using proprietary tools and Unity.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of Game Design experience.
- At least 2 years of work experience designing mobile free-to-play (F2P) games, with at least one shipped F2P title as a Senior Designer.
- Experience designing a wide variety of complex features, ranging from collection and upgrade systems, to events and sales.
- Outstanding spec writing and demonstrated success at communicating your designs and vision to colleagues across different disciplines.
- Experience with live operations process, timelines, content, and planning.
- Experience working with Product Managers and looking at live data.
- Understanding how to balance a high-quality, fun player experience with business and KPI goals.
- Understanding player motivations, including those outside your personal gamer demographic.
- Working knowledge of Unity.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience working with IP characters and following IP guidelines.
- Management experience.
- Waterfall, Agile and Scrum process experience.
- Serious passion for games—you are a gamer and have been for years.
- Drive to build and support a creative, world-class design culture.
- Takes accountability and ownership of projects from start to finish.
- Problem solver, results-oriented, self-motivated and disciplined.
- Able to multitask like a pro.
- Ability to take direction and collaborate.
- Coding/Prototyping experience is a plus!
$85,000 - $150,000 a year
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation for this role. The range listed is just one component of Jam City's total compensation package for employees, which may also include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. Starting pay for the successful applicant will depend on a variety of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, or market demands. This range is based on a full-time position. This range may be modified in the future. In addition, Jam City provides a variety of benefits to employees, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan, life, disability, and accident insurance. Pay Range: $85,00— $150,000 salary per year.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY, & INCLUSION
We believe in creating games that unite people across the world and that showcase our commitment to providing an environment that is both inclusive and diverse for our players and employees. We strive to create a workforce that is reflective of our global player community as we know that we are stronger and better when we play together. To help promote an inclusive culture, we celebrate the visible and invisible diversity of our Jam Citizens through initiatives including Employee Resource Groups, cultural events, trainings, speaker series, and more.
Jam City is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, religion, ethnicity, marital, or domestic partnerships status, disability, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws. Our management is committed to following this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruiting, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
ABOUT JAM CITY
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience.
Led by CEO Josh Yguado, former 20th Century Fox executive, Jam City is the creative powerhouse behind some of the highest-grossing and most enduring mobile games. Jam City’s global franchise Cookie Jam has generated more than half a billion dollars, and Panda Pop has more than 120 million downloads to date.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic entertainment brands. The company’s popular RPG game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery was the #1 game in more than 40 countries at its launch in April 2018.
Jam City has nine studios located in Los Angeles (HQ), Berlin, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Burbank, Cedar Falls, San Diego, San Francisco, and Toronto.
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Location: Burbank, CA
Country: United States
Date found: 2023-04-11