About the position
Socialpoint, a mobile games studio based in Barcelona, is seeking a Game Designer for their Live Games. The ideal candidate will design systems and features for mobile games, transform high-level goals into detailed specifications, and work with a multidisciplinary team. They should have extensive knowledge of the mobile gaming market and free-to-play mechanics, as well as 4+ years of experience in game design. Socialpoint offers relocation support, 25 days of annual leave, private medical insurance, and other benefits.
Responsibilities
- Design systems and/or features for a live or new game for the mobile market.
- Transform high-level goals into detailed specifications that developers can understand and execute.
- Cooperate with multidisciplinary team, providing design inputs and own designs from concept to launch.
- Present proposals for games or features. Work closely with product team to define goals and follow up on results.
- Iterate on your idea, fine tuning features and testing by yourself and with your team & players until you make them great.
- Perform balancing on areas of the game as needed (combat, progression, rewards, controls, etc.)
Requirements
- Design systems and/or features for a live or new game for the mobile market.
- Transform high-level goals into detailed specifications that developers can understand and execute.
- Cooperate with multidisciplinary team, providing design inputs and own designs from concept to launch.
- Present proposals for games or features. Work closely with product team to define goals and follow up on results.
- Iterate on your idea, fine tuning features and testing by yourself and with your team & players until you make them great.
- Perform balancing on areas of the game as needed (combat, progression, rewards, controls, etc.)
- Passionate about games and have an intuitive and deep sense for fun.
- Excellent communication and team-player attitude. Always open to collaborating and getting feedback.
- Great focus and organization, able to take problems one by one and solving them before moving to the next one.
- Ability to abstract problems and think in terms of systems, functions and experience.
- Strong numerical skills and experience with visualizing numbers in a readable format (graphs, etc).
- Extensive knowledge of the mobile gaming market and familiar with popular titles.
- Understanding of free-to-play mechanics, monetization and best practices.
- Extensive background as a gamer (especially on mobile but PC/console/tabletop is a bonus).
- 4+ years experience in game design, 1+ years on a live game with at least 1 full release cycle.
- Excellent written and verbal English skills.
- Familiar with conceptualizing, setting and running AB tests (bonus).
- Analytical mindset and understanding of basic product KPIs (bonus).
- Knowledge and experience with complex in-game economies (bonus).