Senior Game Designer

Description

Microsoft Game Studios group is looking for a dynamic and experienced designer who has passion to create the world’s greatest family focused gaming experiences. The Sr. Designer position focuses on partnering and supporting creative visionaries, solving creative issues, helping establish and emphasize core design pillars, and evangelizing published products from a game design perspective. Sr. Designers push innovation and partner with world class developers to launch new high quality titles worthy of 1st Party development.


Duties & Responsibilities

Ensure that the final product quality meets the high expectations of Microsoft Game Studios first party titles.

Ensure that the creative vision, design pillars, and direction for a title are clear to both our development partner and within the Microsoft organization.

Understand, nurture, and support the development of our partner’s creative vision, offering creative solutions and ideas.

Work effectively with the Creative Director, Art Director, Audio Director, User Research Lead, Product Manager(s), and any other key leads to determine project design specifications and to ensure successful product execution.

Evangelize, present, and communicate design status of owned projects to the larger Microsoft organization and Senior Management Team.

Contribute innovative and creative design ideas to specific titles, across the games portfolio, and to the platform as a whole.

Perform due diligence trips with potential development partners and provide critical and creative insight and feedback on any new game concepts.