Senior Game Designer

Description

Take your career aloft at our growing New Orleans studio. We are adding a Senior Game Designer to create top quality games and mentor other designers for exciting upcoming mobile game titles. This position will go to an experienced designer with a strong background in social and mobile gaming and a solid understanding of their markets.

Responsibilities:

Under the responsibility of the Studio Lead Game Designer, our Senior Game Designer will:

Design creative, exciting and fresh gameplay and content for original and live games
Establish and drive a dynamic creative vision that appeals to our players
Collaborate with programmers on feature implementation
Collaborate with monetization and game economy designers on balancing
Complete benchmarking & competition research
Communicate with Leads to contribute to effective scheduling
Collaborate with design teams to produce innovative ideas for new concepts and existing design issues
Communicate with development teams and produce quality design documentation to ensure your creative vision is fulfilled

Qualifications:

This role requires a strong background in game design.

4+ years of professional game design experience with a focus on f2p/freemium, ideally city builders
Proven track record of successful casual/social games, preferably on mobile
Advanced understanding of social/online games and related monetization strategies and game economies, game mechanics and gameplay
Superior verbal and written communications skills
Exceptional work ethic and positive, inspiring attitude
Passion for creating video games!

Chosen candidates will be required to take an assessment.

Gameloft is where you want to be.

This position is based in the creative and inspiring city of New Orleans, a city built on entertainment and opportunity! New Orleans offers a rich culture of superbmusic, art, architecture, and food that is a part of its very fabric, and is one of the most culturally and historically rich cities in America. We are the festival capital of the world and have an endless list of both nightlife and family activites. In New Orleans, you will simply never run out of things to do!

In a recent survey of American cities reviewing economic health, quality of life, and demographic factors, New Orleans ranked #2 in the entire US while Travel + Leisure named it #1 of America's Best Cities. New Orleans features an exceptionally strong economic trajectory powered by a digital media, technology and entertainment renaissance.

This position offers:

* Fun, passionate and creative studio with a casual, friendly atmosphere - we love to play, board games, video games, ping pong, air hockey, frisbee and foosball!
* International environment which offers daily contact with other countries & cultures
* Challenging and rewarding work on the next great frontiers in games
* Excellent benefits and studio culture

* An unparalleled opportunity to evolve and grow your career with a vibrant young studio among the stability of a large, self-published company.

A leading global publisher of digital and social games, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all digital platforms, including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets (including Apple® iOS and Android® devices), set top box, connected TVs and consoles. Gameloft partners with leading international brands such as UNO®, Spider-Man®, James Cameron’s Avatar™, Ferrari® and Sonic Unleashed®. Gameloft also operates its own established franchises, such as Real Football, Asphalt™, Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus and N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance®. Gameloft is present in all continents, distributes its games in 100 countries and employs over 6,000 developers. Gameloft is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN: FR0000079600, Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).

Previous hit Gameloft games include: Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Asphalt 8: Airborne, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, Ironman 3, Kingdoms & Lords, GT Racing 2, Shark Dash, Oregon Trail: American Settler, A Good Day to Die Hard, NOVA: Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance, Littlest Pet Shop, The Dark Knight Rises, PLAYMOBIL Pirates, Real Soccer 2012 HD

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