Lead Game Designer - Oxford, United Kingdom - Rebellion

Rebellion

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Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION**For 30 years we've been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield.

Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them.

so as long as you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or flexible working options.

We are on the lookout for a Lead Game Designer to join a passionate and expanding Design team developing a fresh unannounced IP, with an attitude and philosophy based on by high levels of trust, autonomy, and collaboration.

As a Lead Designer, you will lead a team of designers on a brand-new project from pre-production to shipping, overseeing the development of the game design and delivering a high-quality gameplay experience.

You'll collaborate with the Head of Design, Designers, Producers, and Programmers to balance creative vision with production realities.

You will verify the quality of design in the game and use your expert knowledge and experience to make improvements where necessary that align with technical constraints and artistic direction.

You'll offer feedback and suggestions following gameplay evaluations that fine-tune and improve the game; supporting Rebellion to become a progressive and industry-leading developer.

The Rebellion Design team creates and maintains games from concept to shippable quality. Working closely with the other specialist teams to implement fun and immersive gameplay utilising the game mechanics.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Designers with best practice people management techniques, proactively manage your team's performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.
Collaborate with Head of Creative, Designers, Programmers, and Producers to balance creative vision with production realities
Oversee the development of the game's design considering technical and artistic requirements, understand and iterate the brief over the lifetime of the project, and from that set style guides and consistent gameplay languages across the game
Verify the quality of design in the game, and make improvements where necessary to fit technical constraints and artistic direction
Conduct gameplay evaluations with the Lead Level Designer and Producer with the team providing feedback and suggestions to help finetune and improve the game
Be an active mentor and role model for the Design team. Work to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm

Requirements:

Expert knowledge of creating game design documents and prototype specifications
Expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / timebound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction
Expert knowledge of production pipelines
Proactively ensure the game design serves the audience of the game, is appropriate to the state of the market, and uses the most appropriate business model given the resources available
Able to focus on individuals and teams to achieve a specific outcome to drive performance
Able to develop resolutions to unusually challenging problems and mentor individuals and teams to solve problems creatively

Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years
one day each year until you reach 31 days)
Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
Enhanced Family Leave
Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
Enhanced Pension Scheme
EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
Plus loads moreincluding a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events

About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere.

We love what we do and we have fun doing it As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries make Rebellion completely unique We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success.

We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent.

We are people-focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do.

We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and havi