A leader in creating deep and engaging experiences on PC and mobile, Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 260million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are living games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focussed development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex is expanding and extending its portfolio with fresh franchise titles, new IP and, in 2018 launched Jagex Partners, delivering third-party publishing and operational services exclusively for the living games of the future.
Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters and is on the hunt for talented people to work across the business to help the company to achieve yet another year of record growth and player satisfaction.
Job Purpose:
- A senior MTX designer is responsible for the design and implementation of significant monetisation content and systems, including game events, monetisation promotions, battlepass systems, storefront content, and the creation of reward spaces that create player value. It is expected that they will take high-level briefs and translate them into clear, actionable designs that support our duty of care principles, product pillars and product scope. The resulting designs will be easily maintained in a live environment.
- A senior MTX designer should be able to clearly and confidently communicate their designs, showing reasoned methodology, and referring to data where possible. They will work closely with Product Management to identify the demands of an update, and with our Analytics and Data Science teams to track the success against those aims.
- Senior designers are proactive about gathering feedback and improving. They foster a culture of creative collaboration by participating in playtests and delivering feedback to others in a clear, impersonal, respectful manner. Seniors can identify holistic problems with the game, formulate solutions, and effectively manage that information upwards to leadership. They are ready and willing to assist the lead designer as and when required.
- Senior designers are team players, and they form strong relationships across disciplines. They will seek out insight, support, and buy-in from artists, analysts, marketers, engineers and others by involving them early in the creative process. They can effectively evangelise their vision and communicate the goals and constraints to others, including the presentation of them to players.
- At a senior level, it is important to demonstrate an all-round ability to solve problems reliably and autonomously with great organisational, scheduling and mentorship skills. They must show an ability to look more broadly at product development and strategize accordingly within their discipline.
- Overall, seniors are expected to take on a higher level of responsibility for the quality and timely delivery of complex tasks on their project.
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- Produce exemplar monetisation designs that support the creative vision, product pillars and Duty of Care
- Work with Product and ADS to create, track and reach monetization objectives
- Pitch, protype and iterate design systems
- Implement robust, bug-free content that can be maintained in a live environment
- Set and maintain standards of quality
- Document best practices and guidance
- Strive for ways to improve process, identify, and remove production issues early
- Collaborate with all disciplines to ensure optimal path, balancing and best design solutions
- Be part of the team
- Strive to raise the knowledge level of game design within the team
- Provide useful, thoughtful, and respectful peer feedback
- Support, guide, and mentor others more junior
Requirements
- Experience of monetisation, economy and/or system design
- Working knowledge of trends in the monetisation landscape
- Ability to create player value and drive engagement in monetisation promotions
- Passion for game design and anything design-related
- Player-centric design thinking
- Experience of multiple end-to-end game development cycles on high end PC or console titles
- Fully understands and can articulate design fundamentals
- Problem-solver
- Highly organized and process-driven
- *BONUS* MMO experience
- *BONUS* Experience of creating monetization structures from the ground up
Corporate Responsibilities
- To behave always in a professional manner, maintaining a positive and conscientious work ethic whilst also demonstrating initiative and determination to get the job done.
- To work effectively with colleagues both within the immediate team and across the company whenever necessary.
- To demonstrate a willingness to adapt to the evolving environment of the company, teams and work requirements.
Company Benefits:
- Flexible Working
- Bonus Scheme
- Private Health Care
- Gym Membership
- Generous Pension Contributions
- Life Insurance
- Free Cycle Repair
- Income Protection
- Dental Plan
- Free Fruit and Drinks
- Subsidised Canteen
Feel like you fit this role, but don’t meet all the requirements? We strive for fresh perspectives, so as long as you can demonstrate how your attitude and other abilities might make up for any gaps we would welcome your application!
Jagex are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
