We are looking for a Lead Game Designer to lead the charge on a brand new unannounced mobile game here at Gasket Games. First and foremost, if you’re an insightful and authentic leader who understands how to collaborate with others and how to clearly communicate your design vision to a multidisciplinary team, we’d like to hear from you.

This is a hands-on position where you will be working alongside your team creating the game while you provide leadership, manage task allocation, and ensure content cohesion. This is a brand new project at Gasket Games and you would have the ability to put your stamp on this role.

What will you do?

• Work with studio leadership to define the vision of the game and advocate that vision with a multidisciplinary team.
• Liaise with our publishing partner to build and maintain a positive, trusting relationship.
• Create and maintain documentation, slide decks, and spreadsheets to account for statistical systems and designs.
• Work with production to define tasks and deliverables assigned to a schedule and available team resources.
• Collaborate with team members of various disciplines to bring the project to life, clarifying and evolving the game design vision along the way.
• Implement functional designs, from paper to toolkit functional prototypes, iterating and learning along the way.
• Playtest, focus test, correlate learnings, adjust designs, and tune game content for a high bar quality target.
• Manage and collaborate with narrative content contributors.
• Work with leadership to review milestones, collect build feedback, and incorporate any resulting adjustments.
• Plan for and support a live game with ambitions for future expansion.

Who are you?

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Designer, plus you have experience leading a Design team.
• You have shipped a mobile game.
• You have experience working within an engine, Unity experience is a big plus.
• You have excellent critical thinking skills and relish solving complex problems.
• You have great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• You’re able to focus on minute details without losing sight of the big picture.

Finally, a little about Gasket Games Corp. We are a studio of 42 game developers who usually work out of our studio located in Vancouver. Due to COVID-19 we are all working from our home offices, creating engaging content and gameplay. We stay connected through Slack, Google Hangouts, email, our weekly studio update and our virtual happy hour. We have a high bar for quality within our games and mutual respect within our company culture.

If this role sounds interesting to you, we want to hear from you.