Lead Game Designer

Description

The Lead Game Designer for Disney Interactive Studios team is responisble for the design of all attributes of the teams products and applications. The position also manages the production process as it relates to the design staff as well as potentially working with vendors and team members across multiple products.

Major Responsibilities:

Game Design:
• Design game flow from high concept to implementation
• Benchmarking and competitive research to influence continual product improvement
• Determine game level layout and design
• Create and produce game play content
• Communication to development team (artists, developers, programmers) to ensure game creative vision fulfilled

Analysis of design:
• Examine problem sets and determine optimal solutions
• Develop product requirements and write specification documents for development team
• Develop workflow schematics
• Write product documentation for game users
• Correct errors found in product after live deployment
• Effectively receive and give constructive criticism
Internal Collaboration
• Collaborating with the internal production, & marketing teams to define problem sets and determine tasks
• Develop systems and tools to improve team workflow and product efficiency
Production Management
• Coordinate work of design and development teams to complete tasks and projects
• Prepare cost and labor estimates
• Develop schedules and manage design teams to them to ensure product goals are met