Senior Engagement Designer - Horsham, United Kingdom - Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly

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Horsham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Creative Assembly is looking for an experienced Senior Engagement Designer to join our FPS team to work on HYENAS, our exciting new first-person shooter.

This role will be based at our headquarters in Horsham, in the heart of West Sussex.

In this exciting role, you will be able to make a real impact in our game by designing, developing, and maintaining systems with massive impact on the live game experience and game economy.

To do so, you will be collaborating and creating with our talented and passionate team, developing an innovative brand-new FPS.

Flexible working at Creative Assembly includes hybrid, fully remote for eligible roles, and in-studio.

We recognise that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and empower our teams to define the working patterns which work best for them, which may mean different things for different teams and roles and at different times.

This role is Hybrid and has an expectation of an average of 1 day per week in our Horsham studio.

This role can also be fulfilled fully in studio. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

Key Responsibilities
As an Engagement Designer, you will primarily work on the game's progression systems, in-game economy, seasonal elements, and monetisation.
You will create and maintain emotionally engaging progression systems filled with appealing reward items.

As a further key responsibility, you will manage virtual goods while implementing the setup of currencies, prices, quests, seasonal elements and in-game events within the game economy.

This will require work in various tools including, but not limited to, Unreal and LUA while collaborating with a wide variety of disciplines from UI Artists to Release Managers.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

Design and implement engaging, rewarding and balanced engagement systems
Setup and maintain the configuration of the ingame economy of virtual goods & currencies
Work with Data Analysts to identify retention and monetisation problems and propose potential improvements to the game experience
Design, implement, and execute ingame events
Design and implement missions, quests and challenges.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

Essential

Strong design skills: understanding key design process and work
Excellent Excel and game design documentation skills
Experience in an engagement, Live game design or other game economy role on a live game
Experience working on game monetisation
Analytics and KPIdriven mindset
Ability to clearly communicate using a variety of methods to enable effective collaboration
Experience with LUA or similar Language.

Desirable

Knowledge of User Research methods and UX / UI best practices
Passion for firstperson shooters
Experience working with Unreal or similar Engine.

About Creative Assembly

It's an exciting time to be a part of our craft-led studio as we push boundaries, creating deep and detailed experiences that last.

Our teams are diverse from across the world, from trainees to industry veterans who constantly challenge us and make sure we are striving for the best within our games and our studio life.

We are united through our shared values of Quality, Focus, Teamwork, Respect and Trust and we win awards for our culture and our people-centric approach, having won a Best Place to Work Award for six consecutive years.

We invest in our people, the studio, and our projects. We are a company that's secure and safe - you don't need to worry about job security at CA.
Flexible working at Creative Assembly includes hybrid, fully remote within country of employment for eligible roles, and in-studio.

We'll give you the creative freedom, tools, support, and development to achieve your potential.

Our studios are based in Horsham, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria, including several bespoke state-of-the-art audio suites and a dedicated motion capture facility.

We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:

Flexible working: hybrid, fully remote within country of employment for eligible roles, and in-studio working
Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with our core hours, and nonotice holidays
Bespoke relocation package for you and your dependents, with support throughout the process from our dedicated Relocation Specialists
Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all UK Bank holidays
Annual discretionary studio bonus
Join our awardwinning education and social responsibility programme; the Legacy Project, as an industry ambassador to mentor and