Senior Game Designer

Summary

Join Ludia, a leading mobile video game studio in Canada, as a Senior Game Designer for their hit game, Jurassic World Alive! You will design new game features, events, and core mechanics. This role requires extensive experience in mobile free-to-play game design, including features like battle passes and in-app purchases. You will champion features through the entire development cycle, collaborate with various teams, and present designs to leadership. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication and design documentation skills, understands player motivations, and is passionate about games. Ludia offers a flexible work environment with remote options, comprehensive health benefits, retirement plans, and various office perks.

Requirements

• 6+ years of game industry design experience
• At least 2 years of work experience designing mobile free-to-play (F2P) turn-based games, with at least one shipped F2P title as a Senior Designer
• Experience designing a wide variety of complex features, ranging from turn based games with upgrade systems or geolocation experience, to special events and sales
• Outstanding spec writing and demonstrated success at communicating your designs and vision to colleagues across different disciplines
• Experience with live operations process, timelines, content, and planning
• Experience working with Product Managers and looking at live data
• Understanding how to balance a high-quality, fun player experience with business and KPI goals
• Understanding player motivations, including those outside your personal gamer demographic
• Working knowledge of Unity

Responsibilities

• Design new core features, intricately woven into the already existing game features, events, and meta
• Develop concepts, write detailed functional specs, and lead development for new features, collection systems, events, sales, new merchandising opportunities, and other supporting systems
• Ensure implementation of features are built according to design specs and creative quality
• Collaborate with Design Lead and Product Managers on feature road mapping and event schedules
• Follow and anticipate IP guidelines and feedback from Universal, feedback from internal teams, and playtesters. Modify designs as needed
• Present new designs to Jurassic’s game leads, and also executive leadership
• Lead and participate in various design brainstorms
• Provide well thought, actionable feedback on other elements in the game to other designers
• Continually research market trends, and incorporate up-to-the-minute features and strategies
• Implement content using proprietary tools and Unity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with IP characters and following IP guidelines
• Management experience
• Agile and Scrum process experience
• Serious passion for games—you are a gamer and have been for years
• Drive to build and support a creative, world-class design culture
• Takes accountability and ownership of projects from start to finish
• Problem solver, results-oriented, self-motivated and disciplined
• Able to multitask like a pro
• Ability to take direction and collaborate
• Coding/Prototyping experience is a plus!

Benefits

• 100% flexibility: remote work in all Quebec and flexible hours
• An impressive health plan and a virtual medical assistance available 24h/24
• Collective RRSP with employer participation, referral and bonus programs
• Office perks in Old Montreal: breakfasts, coffee and tea, and free lunches, 5@7, Gym
• Partial refund of your STM/RTM