Small studio life means being able to contribute to lots of aspects of game development. We've got a great opportunity for someone awesome to join our growing & unique design department at Squanch Games. We're looking to bring on a senior designer who has experience in the discipline’s many facets, but may have a few specialties in their back pockets. We need someone to help lead the charge on one of our upcoming hilarious, narrative-driven games.
At Squanch Games, we make stuff that people love; games that we want to play ourselves. We make experiences that we would like to be totally immersed in and enjoy for hours at a time, as well as shorter, crazier experiences that would be great to play with a group of friends or possibly with stray homeless people that you invited in so you could feed and bathe them.
If you share in these values, come join us!
As our Senior Designer you would:
- Lead a team to conceptualize and execute comedy driven gameplay experiences
- Work with our CCO and Lead Designer to take exciting new ideas from whiteboard to prototype
- Ensure consistent creative vision and prioritization alignment
- Be an individual contributor in Unreal Engine 4, owning design end to end along with documentation
- Collaborate and evangelize the game to partners and potential new-hires
- Seek feedback and adjust as necessary, communicating along the way
- Be the arbiter of quality: you know what great looks like and aren’t afraid to lead others in how to get there
- Be a closer: You have structure and process, and have no problems finishing out your designs for ship.
- Play to your strengths and not be afraid to admit your weaknesses
Requirements
You are:
- Experienced: You probably have experience in game development, specifically as a lead designer or senior designer prior. You have experience with both short and long ship cycles with scrappy teams.
- A gamer: You read and/or play games most days. You know what’s going on in our industry and can’t wait to talk to others about it.
- Curious, passionate, and don't take yourself too seriously
- You know that the best work comes from a team who trusts and respects each other. You strive to collaborate with others and don’t care whose ideas win. Best ideas win.
- A creator: Regardless of whether your tech background includes programming, scripting, or working in engine editors, we need folks who are flexible and willing to dive in and make changes.
- An expert in one of these fields: Narrative design, Blueprint or Gameplay design, System design, Level design
