Your responsibilities will include:

Required Skills:

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• 5+ years of professional and advanced leadership experience in entertainment and/or web games. Social or MMO games a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts, Graphic Arts, or a related field is required. Masters a plus.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and varying personalities.
• Strong understanding of efficient techniques for game art asset production.
• Proven ability to think conceptually about projects and brand, while developing and evolving over time creative systems/processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent ability to communicate with Artists & Designers via voice or writing.
• Strong collaboration & influencing skills and attention to detail.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.
• Extremely proficient in Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator and other 2D design-oriented software programs.
• Experience with HTML CSS is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Creates concepts & key art examples to define overall look and feel for games being developed.
• Supports all visual direction with clear written & verbal communication to the development team.
• Manages & mentors internal artists day to day, by setting goals, reviewing and giving feedback on work, writing reviews, and providing ongoing performance feedback.
• Collaborates with Producers to create & assist with managing project schedules and art resource planning.
• Collaborates with Marketing to drive art direction on websites and other promotional materials.
• Manages art review process and conducts critiques with clear and concise direction to the art team.
• Collaborates with Designers to ensure games are accessible to users and have intuitive UI.
• Works with Producers to develop and manage team’s outsourcing capabilities, pipelines, and best practices.
• Work with Engineers and Producers to define technical requirements and optimize pipelines development processes.
• Actively play and analyze gameplay and best practices from competitive games in the social gamespace.

• 5+ years of game design experience; experience in social games and/or MMOs highly desired.
• At least 2 years of experience in Lead or Senior role, managing other designers.
• Demonstrated ability to design compelling game mechanics and features, and work closely with others to prototype, develop and refine them.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and varying personalities with minimal supervision.
• Strong collaboration & influencing skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent ability to communicate with Artists, Producers, and Engineers via voice or writing, and able communicate ideas through sketches and/or diagrams.
• Able to critically analyze gameplay mechanics & feature designs, and rapidly conceive achievable solutions to problems.
• Deep knowledge of video games, the industry, and current social game markets, with a passion for the craft of game design.
• Demonstrated knowledge of game production, programming, and art techniques & issues.
• Expert with math and formulas in game environment.
• Strong knowledge of game balancing and pacing.
• Adept with Office suite products with some art tool software experience.
• Experience with prototyping toolsets a plus.
• Bachelors Degree preferred; Game Design degree a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design and gameplay implementation in each product, working closely with the Producer and other product Leads.
• Own and manage all phases of game design, including brainstorming, concept inception, game systems & mechanics, story creation, level design, and game flow.
• Manages & mentors game design team day to day, by setting goals, reviewing and giving feedback on work, writing reviews, and providing ongoing performance feedback.
• Manage rapid prototyping and proof of concept development for products.
• Ensure products are designed and developed to meet all established standards for quality, timeliness, budget, technological objectives, and feature set.
• Collaborates with Art Director and Producers to ensure games are accessible to users and has intuitive UI.
• Keep current on industry knowledge of competitive games, successful games, popular and ‘fun’ gameplay mechanics, and consumer demographics within the social game market.
• Naturally predisposed toward collaboration, invitation of peer reviews, and critiquing others’ work in a motivating way.
• Capable of communicating complex game designs clearly and succinctly to both development teams and internal leadership.