Senior Game Designer Remote
Job description
About us
Marmalade Game Studio is looking for a game designer to join our close-knit team of superstars and help us to build on the success of Cluedo, Battleship, and The Game of Life, our most recent hits.
This is a new role in which a creative and driven-minded person can thrive. At Marmalade Studio you’ll have the opportunity to become one of the minds behind the best digital board games on the market. You’ll be responsible to ensure that our users will have amazing experiences while playing our games.
We love what we do, and love working alongside other people who share the same dedication to quality.
You must reside in the UK and be eligible to work here.
Our main studio is located in London. We offer remote, hybrid and flexible working options.
The role:
- Contribute with ideas for new game concepts, design features, mechanics and new solutions for existing games
- Create game design documentation, game flows, mock-ups and paper prototypes
- Work closely with the creative director to iterate and improve your designs
- Work closely with the producer to understand the briefs and requirements for the design function within the project
- Communicate your designs to a team of artists, designers and programmers
- Analyse and test games from a user-experience point of view, proposing iterations
Requirements
- Extensive experience as Game Designer working on a professional environment
- Strong motivation to create games and to develop your Game Designer career
- Highly creative, you are able to come up with game concepts, new features and brilliant solutions for different projects
- Good understanding of UX – you have an user centric approach, always aiming to create the best experiences for the players
- Excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
- You understand and love an entrepreneurial environment – you won’t be a cog in a machine, you will wear many hats and have a clear impact on the products
- A passion for board games is a plus (both for professional reasons and because we like to have more players for our lunchtime sessions!)
- Experience with Unity
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working, we offer the ability to WFH, hybrid, or the ability to work from one of our offices
- Regular social activities and team parties
- Company pension scheme, we match up to 5%
- Generous holiday allowance consisting of 22 days + a bonus 3 day holiday when the offices are closed over Christmas and New Year + extra holiday for long service
- Private health insurance package
- Private life insurance
- 48h a year of Professional development time
