SGN, Social Gaming Network, is a leading publisher and developer of social mobile games on smartphones. At SGN we're constantly pushing the boundaries of social game play. Connectivity is key, and by bringing gamers and developers together, SGN leads the way toward a more meaningful and socially-engaging future.
Senior/Lead Game Designer
We are looking for talent and skill in developing social mobile games, with experience in planning, documenting, and building design assets, including: UI, maps, levels, tuning data, flow charts, wireframes, controller specifications and in-game text.
The Senior Game Designer helps architect and plan the game design while taking responsibility for critical-path design tasks, helping to implement all the design goals throughout production, sometimes but not always in a Lead role.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with and direct other team members to create a successful project design and plan, demonstrating product design goals, and then execute and revise that design and plan as needed.
- Design, manage and implement 2D and 3D level building, including planning maps.
- Design, specify, and tune AI behaviors, player controls, event triggers, and all gameplay and user experience aspects.
- Design and advocate for usability in all aspects of User Interface.
- Participate in milestone setting long with sprint planning and review.
- Perform research and analyses of competitive products.
- Manage project level assets including tracking and integration.
Requirements::
- 5 years of game industry experience, with multiple shipped titles in casual, social or multiplayer mobile games in a design role from concept through final.
- Passionate about many different types of games with an understanding of casual and mobile aspects of games and how to monetize and incentivize free-to-play social games.
- Self-motivated and focused worker with good communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Demonstrable knowledge of advanced game design principles and problem solving abilities.
- Strong sense of what makes for successful viral social game design.
- Understanding of narrative, story-telling, plotting, character development and rewarding players.
- Ability to accept direction and to work with the team to create a common vision, and to execute on that vision.
- Familiarity with industry tools for level layout, world building, scripting, and documenting, and managing game projects.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with artistic and UI design experience a bonus.
- Must be able to verify legal eligibility to work in the USA.
Please send a cover letter, resume, and a portfolio with credits, specific examples and descriptions of work completed on previous games to jobs@sgn.com