Description

Award-winning TiMi Studios seeks a Design Director with outstanding design skills who can really help us build a new world-class IP from concept to market!

Are you ready to create something groundbreaking, genre-defining and fun for years to come? Do you have an insatiable passion for video games and creating new ways for players to be engaged?  We here at TiMi Studios are looking for a phenomenal design director who shares our love for our medium. Come channel your energy into making an exceptionally fun experience and defining the great studio culture necessary to inspire minds to develop great video games.

Responsibilities

  • Start with a player first mentality, embedding an obsessive drive to know, understand, and serve the players who are engaged with the game
  • Work with the team to develop and manage a design vision and production plan capable of delivering upon the promise of the game
  • Obsessively direct the intrinsic core gameplay to ensure that is fun, visceral, and addictive, and oversee the extrinsic metagame design to provide the mechanisms necessary to keep players coming back for more
  • Keep up to date with the bleeding edge of design trends within video game development and evangelize solutions that will innovate both the player experience and the creative development of the product
  • Participate in the hiring of the entire design discipline
  • Responsible for the career growth and mentorship of the design discipline on the project
  • Act as the key design contact for the studio, representing the project and team to all external partners and stakeholders
  • Define and uphold design principles to ensure the design of the game is cohesive, systemic, and fun
  • Work side-by-side with all directors and leads to take a multi-discipline approach to creativity and problem solving
  • Proactively identify opportunities and risks to improve the work of the team, the quality of the project, and studio knowledge as a whole
  • Have a cross platform mindset up front and ensure that design can support an experience that can work seamlessly on different platforms and form factors
  • Ensure that the design of the game starts with a Live product philosophy, capable of regular updates and malleable to key design changes if necessary

Essential Requirements

  • A portfolio of visionary, inspiring, industry-leading design that you can talk to at depth and explain how your personal creative process was key in its development
  • At least 8 years of professional AAA game development experience
  • At least two projects shipped in a leadership position
  • At least two AAA action titles shipped, one during the current generation of games (PS4/XBOX ONE)
  • Demonstrable, outstanding management and communication capabilities
  • Proven ability to define and manage the design vision and roadmap for large scale projects
  • Expert action game experience and knowledge, preferably within the FPS genre
  • A team player who knows how to get the best out of everyone on the project and not just within design
  • Experience prototyping in and shipping a game using Unreal Engine 4 a plus

Additional Information

  • Create high quality games backed by unlimited resources:
    • You will be working to bring incredible game ideas to market, and you will never run out of resources at your disposal.
    • You will be supported completely to bring next-gen experience live to players around the world!
  • Make a major impact at a global studio:
    • You will be working on a key initiative at TiMi Studio, building games that are hits not just in the east or west, but globally.
    • The impact of your efforts will ripple not just through the whole studio group (2,500+ employees) but will serve as a blueprint for the entire gaming industry.

 

技能標籤: project management

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