Job description
The Role @ Sumo
You will undoubtedly be a proactive, enthusiastic and a visionary leader who can leverage the team’s strengths to tackle any creative challenge that arises. Making sure to keep up with current game trends, you will deliver quality, continuity, and consistency whilst advocating for design cohesion and best practice across all elements of the game.
Within this role you will:
- Establish a clear and unified creative concept for the game in collaboration with project stakeholders
- Promote cross-discipline collaboration to ensure the creative vision is delivered successfully
- Work with the production team to ensure that the creative vision is achievable with the resource/budget constraints of the game
- Be proactive in your vision and creative endeavours whilst working closely with the Publisher
- Deliver regular creative updates to the key stakeholder team
- Advocate for new trends in game development and how they might be applied to the game
- Define and deliver playtests at all stages of development, creating a strong culture of iteration
- Ensure design cohesion and best practices across the team
We will need you to:
- Have successfully completed a minimum of 3 game cycles
- Have approx. 10 years’ experience in the games industry
- Be in a Creative Director role currently or be an experienced Design Director, Game Director or Art Director in the games industry
- Have the ability to consider technical and manufacturing viability when developing concepts
- Have a strong understanding of all aspects of game design including controls, game-feel, feedback, retention, balance, social mechanics, narrative, usability and on-boarding
- Have excellent organisational, interpersonal, cross-discipline communication and presenting skills
- Have a strong understanding of player psychology and motivations
. Defined Annual Bonus Scheme
At Sumo, we want to enable everyone to bring their full, authentic selves to work every single day. We acknowledge that the games industry is far from perfect and a global organisation with people all over the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, we know it’s part of our duty to provide everyone at Sumo with a safe, accepting and affirming working environment.
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