Game Designer V
Spectraforce
US
Remote
16 hours ago
Job Description
Title: Game Designer V
Duration: 6 months with possibility of extension
Location: US - Remote
PORTOLIO REQUIRED: A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped, and showcases your game design skills
Candidate Requirements
Must-Have Skills
1 10+ years of game design experience or a minimum of 2 shipped titles in AAA or indie game spaces.
2 Experience using or making games with a 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, etc).
3 Experience leading implementation, strategy, content and/or balance on live service games with knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross functional teams to bring a game vision to life.
Nice-to-have Skills
1 Experience developing or designing AR or VR games.
2 Experience prototyping and/or implementing novel game features in a 3D engine.
3 Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games or digital experiences from concept to launch.
General design knowledge across a range of design specializations, such as level design, system design, economy design, or combat design.
Years of Experience: 10+ years of experience.
Degrees/Certifications Required: N/A but please submit a portfolio.
Candidate Disqualifiers
Are there any types of candidate profiles or skills that may not be the right fit for this team?
Diversity of platforms.
A lot of experience on only one type of game.
Lack of experience specifically supporting live ops and social experiences.
Summary:
We need a game designer who has a specialty in designing and maintaining live service experiences, including the design and strategy of seasonal events, quests, and other content for live operations games. This is critical to keeping Horizon engaging and feeling fresh with a goal to improve user engagement and retention across the platform.
This is a new type of position for Horizon, and we are figuring out the permanent resourcing as we build this. This effort requires more upfront work for the team, but this position should develop and optimize the cadence as part of the effort, as well as improve the systems.
This person will work together with our Core Loop team to design new seasonal events, establish and manage best practices for a LiveOps experience, improve the pipeline of quest and reward creation, create calendars of content, manage the economy and strategize programming of dynamic content elements.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement quests and experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics and loops across a variety of content, including evergreen content, seasonal moments, and limited time events.
Partner with art and product teams to strategize and create compelling reward assets to drive desired user behavior, while managing the overall economy ecosystem.
Partner with internal and external creators across Horizon Worlds to design, highlight and integrate seasonal content.
Define and create best practices and frameworks that can be used to evaluate design quality, define tuning and iteration benchmarks, and evaluate releases against user goals and target metrics. Develop these frameworks into elegant processes that can be shared and aligned on with cross-functional teams and leaders.
Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional team, leveraging user research, data science, industry best practices, and emerging trends.
Give and solicit real time feedback from other designers to continually raise the quality and craftsmanship of the product.
Be an advocate for the user experience from product conception to launch, as well as post-launch design support
Clearly articulate game design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders.
Contribute to strategic decisions in partnership with Design, Product, Art, and Leadership teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
10+ years of game design experience or a minimum of 2 shipped titles in AAA or indie game spaces.
Experience using or making games with a 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, etc).
Experience leading implementation, strategy, content and/or balance on live service games with knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross functional teams to bring a game vision to life.
A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped and showcases your game design skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing or designing AR or VR games.
Experience prototyping and/or implementing novel game features in a 3D engine.
Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games or digital experiences from concept to launch.
General design knowledge across a range of design specializations, such as level design, system design, economy design, or combat design.
Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects:
Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Designing and maintaining live service experiences, including the design and strategy of seasonal events, quests, and other content for live operations games.
Develop and optimize the cadence as part of the effort, as well as improve the systems.
Work with Core Loop team to design new seasonal events, establish and manage best practices for a LiveOps experience, improve the pipeline of quest and reward creation, create calendars of content, manage the economy and strategize programming of dynamic content elements.
Interview process:
Timeline expectation on manager review of candidates 24-48 hours
How many rounds of interviews? 2 interviews.
1 – Behavioral + surface level technical
2 – Deeper level technical
Types of Interviews Video
Interview Duration 45 minutes.
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $70.00/hr.
Duration: 6 months with possibility of extension
Location: US - Remote
PORTOLIO REQUIRED: A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped, and showcases your game design skills
Candidate Requirements
Must-Have Skills
1 10+ years of game design experience or a minimum of 2 shipped titles in AAA or indie game spaces.
2 Experience using or making games with a 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, etc).
3 Experience leading implementation, strategy, content and/or balance on live service games with knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross functional teams to bring a game vision to life.
Nice-to-have Skills
1 Experience developing or designing AR or VR games.
2 Experience prototyping and/or implementing novel game features in a 3D engine.
3 Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games or digital experiences from concept to launch.
General design knowledge across a range of design specializations, such as level design, system design, economy design, or combat design.
Years of Experience: 10+ years of experience.
Degrees/Certifications Required: N/A but please submit a portfolio.
Candidate Disqualifiers
Are there any types of candidate profiles or skills that may not be the right fit for this team?
Diversity of platforms.
A lot of experience on only one type of game.
Lack of experience specifically supporting live ops and social experiences.
Summary:
We need a game designer who has a specialty in designing and maintaining live service experiences, including the design and strategy of seasonal events, quests, and other content for live operations games. This is critical to keeping Horizon engaging and feeling fresh with a goal to improve user engagement and retention across the platform.
This is a new type of position for Horizon, and we are figuring out the permanent resourcing as we build this. This effort requires more upfront work for the team, but this position should develop and optimize the cadence as part of the effort, as well as improve the systems.
This person will work together with our Core Loop team to design new seasonal events, establish and manage best practices for a LiveOps experience, improve the pipeline of quest and reward creation, create calendars of content, manage the economy and strategize programming of dynamic content elements.
Responsibilities:
Design and implement quests and experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics and loops across a variety of content, including evergreen content, seasonal moments, and limited time events.
Partner with art and product teams to strategize and create compelling reward assets to drive desired user behavior, while managing the overall economy ecosystem.
Partner with internal and external creators across Horizon Worlds to design, highlight and integrate seasonal content.
Define and create best practices and frameworks that can be used to evaluate design quality, define tuning and iteration benchmarks, and evaluate releases against user goals and target metrics. Develop these frameworks into elegant processes that can be shared and aligned on with cross-functional teams and leaders.
Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional team, leveraging user research, data science, industry best practices, and emerging trends.
Give and solicit real time feedback from other designers to continually raise the quality and craftsmanship of the product.
Be an advocate for the user experience from product conception to launch, as well as post-launch design support
Clearly articulate game design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders.
Contribute to strategic decisions in partnership with Design, Product, Art, and Leadership teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
10+ years of game design experience or a minimum of 2 shipped titles in AAA or indie game spaces.
Experience using or making games with a 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, etc).
Experience leading implementation, strategy, content and/or balance on live service games with knowledge of industry trends and best practices.
Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross functional teams to bring a game vision to life.
A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped and showcases your game design skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience developing or designing AR or VR games.
Experience prototyping and/or implementing novel game features in a 3D engine.
Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games or digital experiences from concept to launch.
General design knowledge across a range of design specializations, such as level design, system design, economy design, or combat design.
Story Behind the Need – Business Group & Key Projects:
Key Projects/Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Designing and maintaining live service experiences, including the design and strategy of seasonal events, quests, and other content for live operations games.
Develop and optimize the cadence as part of the effort, as well as improve the systems.
Work with Core Loop team to design new seasonal events, establish and manage best practices for a LiveOps experience, improve the pipeline of quest and reward creation, create calendars of content, manage the economy and strategize programming of dynamic content elements.
Interview process:
Timeline expectation on manager review of candidates 24-48 hours
How many rounds of interviews? 2 interviews.
1 – Behavioral + surface level technical
2 – Deeper level technical
Types of Interviews Video
Interview Duration 45 minutes.
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $70.00/hr.