Lead Game Designer

Onward Play is seeking to hire a Lead Game Designer to nurture and advance the design vision for a new mobile game based on one of the hottest franchises in the world. The title is a free-to-play social strategy game in early development with ample opportunity for ownership and impact. This role reports to the project Director of Design.

Experience: The ideal candidate is likely a systems design generalist with a range of mobile-focused midcore and casual experience in the following specific subsets of design:

• Narrative systems and narrative writing
• Hero collector content design such as heroes, levels, dungeons, battles
• F2P monetization
• Metagame design
• Game economy and progression
• Combat systems
• Social play and features such as PVP and guilds
• Event/liveops design
• Quest design

• Goals, Concept, Define, Collaborate, Test, Balance, Iterate
• Create goal-driven one page system designs that enable peer alignment, quick feedback and iteration cycles, and leadership-level approval.
• Translate one-page designs into implementation-level detail to support collaborative cross discipline development with a focus on lean, elegant feature sets
• Understand and internalize the target customer(s), designing with their needs and satisfaction in mind
• Determine content scope and pacing models that strike the right balance of sustainability and support for a healthy F2P business
• Contribute to roadmap planning by identifying and pitching new game systems, content, and feature improvements
• Collaborate with IP holders to ensure brand integrity.
• Partner with a cross-functional team of producers, designers, artists and engineers to prototype, implement, and iterate on features that will delight our players and further the overall creative vision of the product.
• Provide incisive and actionable peer feedback with an eye toward fulfilling player needs, business goals, and getting the most bang for our buck out of development time