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Summary

Big Fish Games is looking for a strong, dynamic game design generalist. You will work closely with game design teams of 2nd-party developers to level up free-to-play designs for a casual audience.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic input and direction for game(s) as a whole
  • Contribute to the success of products by working to improve KPIs, collaborating with game leadership to plan features strategically
  • Review and provide incisive feedback on game design proposals with a laser focus on player behavior goals
  • Use input from research, data analysis, and other departments to deeply understand our customers and drive design decisions
  • Collaborate with Product Managers to contribute to successful Live Ops strategies and execution
  • Respectfully discuss and debate design proposals with the goal of surfacing the best solution for our customer and business
  • Author design proposals for any possible aspect of mobile game design, including: overall metagame, progression and economy tuning, live events design, content extension and expansion, and social frameworks and interactions
  • Build trusting relationships and effective processes with both internal and external teams
  • Effectively communicate perceived risks and opportunities to stakeholders and development teams alike

Qualifications

  • Exceptional teamworker-- ability to gracefully set aside your own work in favor of equivalent proposals made by others for the sake of team unity or business goals
  • Well-rounded game design skills, comfortable working at any level of abstraction from minute execution details to holistic player experience vision
  • Experience owning game economies or aspects of game economies a plus
  • Internalized sense of industry standard F2P monetization design practices and ability to create great monetization moments with game design
  • Deep intuition for game design elegance: achieving high impact with low complexity
  • Respectful, compelling negotiator with ability to lead discussion
  • Flexible, amiable, and willing to provide support for different projects as needed
  • Self-motivated and organized approach, always looking for opportunities to add value

Preferred Experience:

  • 5+ years Mobile Game Design experience (with casual titles a plus)
  • 2+ years Live Ops experience
  • 3+ shipped titles / extensive campaigns
  • Experience with 2nd-party or 3rd-party development a plus
  • Big Fish Games is an equal-opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status.

Why Aristocrat?

  • World Leader in Gaming Entertainment
  • Robust benefits package
  • Global career opportunities
  • Our core values: All about the player, Talent Unleashed, Collective Brilliance and Good Business, Good Citizen

Our Winning Ways

  • Unite - Come together as one team, with one vision
  • Develop - Empower, inspire and grow our people
  • Deliver - Execute with excellence, be accountable for results
  • Play - Be creative, celebrate success

The US based roles may require registration with the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) and/or other gaming jurisdictions in which we operate.