Senior Game Designer (Gameplay Expert)

<p>Interested in working for an exciting company that is redefining the way people play video games? Interested in working for a world class company in a fun, and rewarding environment in Barcelona? Then Gameloft is the company for you!</p><p>GAMELOFT, present in 20 countries around Europe, North America and Asia (more than 5,000 employees), is a leading international developer and distributor of video games looking for new talent to reinforce its creation teams.</p><p>Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Asphalt 8, Asphalt 9 and Disney SpeedStorm is hiring!</p><p>Our Barcelona studio is looking for a Senior <strong>Game Designer </strong>with extensive experience in Gameplay Systems design:</p><p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, following briefings.</li><li>Taking care of all aspects of game design: prototyping these mechanics, documenting, implementing in game and fine-tuning them.</li><li>Overall work in creative, benchmarking, documentation and analyzing tasks</li><li>Follow-up, maintenance and continuous improvement of assigned features</li><li>Team coordination: coordinating with art and development teams assigned to the project with the associated producer</li></ul> <p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong knowledge of Game Design basic rules (3Cs, gameplay systems, learning curve, difficulty balancing, progression balancing, UI, accessibility…)</li><li>Proven experience (3+ years) in gameplay-related designs</li><li>Proven experience in a senior design role</li><li>Able to convey ideas concisely as part of a detailed analysis, and to clearly formalize complex concepts and ideas</li><li>Able to illustrate and/or prototype your ideas visually using standard industry production tools (Photoshop, PowerPoint, Figma, Confluence, Sketch-up, 3D Studio Max, Unity, etc.)</li><li>Good documentation skills</li><li>Passion for creating video games</li><li>Knowledge of classic console and freemium mobile game market,</li><li>Motivation and ability to communicate as part of the project development team;</li><li>Able to listen to feedback from other people and constantly critique your work to achieve the best possible quality</li><li>Good level of English</li></ul><p><strong>Assets</strong><strong>:</strong></p><ul><li>Experience working in racing games</li><li>Experience with multiplayer systems</li><li>Racing fan or gamer</li><li>High visual creativity</li><li>UI skills</li><li>Design / Composition: able to draw sketches and digitally create images or videos</li></ul> <p><strong>Why Join the World of Gameloft?</strong></p><ul><li>Because you want to be part of an exceptional experience within a company that is constantly growing!</li><li>Because you want to work with talented people who are industry pioneers!</li><li>Because you want to be part of an international environment with daily contact with other countries &amp; cultures!</li><li>Or, just because you’re looking for a great place to work!</li></ul><p><strong>Benefits:</strong></p><ul><li>Permanent contract, full-time job with excellent Social Benefits.</li><li>25 vacation days per year</li><li>Private medical health insurance</li><li>Flexible compensation with Ticket Restaurant Card</li><li>Flexible work from home hybrid model&#xa0;</li><li>Free language courses</li><li>Birthday day off!</li><li>1 month&#xa0;of remote work&#xa0;</li><li>Merit based salary progression system and a competitive initial salary package.</li><li>Career-development opportunities.</li><li>Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).</li><li>... and Thursday afterwork beers!</li></ul><p><strong>We can’t wait to find our next great talent!</strong></p><p>Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted and your CV will be saved in our files for a period of 6 months.</p><p><strong>Want to know more?& ... (truncated, view full listing at source)