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Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of rooms, or build something new to share with us all!

As a Game Designer at Rec Room you will work at all levels of the design process - from building consensus and inspiring people toward goals to crafting systems, content, and user-experiences of individual features. You will collaborate across disciplines and teams through all phases of the design process. And you will balance the needs of the company, your team, and most importantly the players.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Be part of strategic planning and design new features that align with product goals for a variety of diverse platforms (phones, consoles, VR, etc.)
  • Transform your ideas into well-thought-out designs, clearly communicated through documentation, wireframes, flows, and spreadsheets in accordance with each project’s goals
  • Use a mix of data, user testing and player feedback to test and iterate on live features
  • Work directly with engineers, artists, designers and product managers throughout the development lifecycle of the relevant features
  • Provide well thought, actionable recommendations through deconstructing and analyzing the mechanics and systems in competitor apps

WE ARE LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH:

  • 2+ years of game design experience
  • A strong user-motivation driven lens - the ability to see the game through players’ eyes
  • The ability to work autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous development environments
  • A constant desire to learn, improve, and help others improve
  • Data-driven problem-solving skills - be able to comprehend data and turn it into meaningful solutions
  • Proficiency in building and maintaining specs, one-pagers, wireframes through a features lifecycle
  • Broad knowledge of, and passion for, the casual, mobile or social game genres

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

  • Experience with Unity
  • Design experience with a live free-to-play game’s economy
  • UI/UX Design experience
  • Experience designing games for mobile/touch devices
  • Experience with live services and rapid-deployment

COMPANY INFO TO KNOW:

Rec Room offers generous medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. We also support your retirement benefits with a company match. Rec Room values work-life balance by providing unlimited paid time off. Our company values are real and drive our culture. We work hard to be a safe and friendly place for people from all walks of life.

Rec Room provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.