Game Designer

Working at Grid Games means working in-house on an ambitious project with people aspiring to make the sci-fi MMORPG of the future.

The studio is located near train station Weesp and the A1.

WE'RE LOOKING FOR

An experienced Game Designer who is talented, driven and organized to create and manage design concepts for our game. This individual will work closely with the other game designers and our development team to ensure that our game is engaging, fun, and meets the needs of our target audience.

In this role you will:

• Work with the Creative Director to help form the vision for areas of the game, and ensure that designs follow the product vision.
• Work alongside the design team to design complex gameplay systems and mechanics and tune them for specific goals.
• Be responsible for writing and checking of design documentation.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve high-quality within constraints.
• Collaborate and work with partners in tech and art teams.
• Create new ideas and take external ideas and goals and work towards those.
• Take a holistic approach to quality and delivery to ensure that the feature set and corresponding execution creates the best possible product.
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to validate and improve ideas.
• Be responsible for seeing designs through implementation until release.
• Aid in narrative development for the project.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 4 years experience in Game Design.
• Knowledge and understanding of the video game development process.
• Good organization skills.
• Experience mentoring other designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.
• Knowledge of MMORPGs.
• Experience prototyping designs.
• Experience working on designs from initial creation through to implementation.
• Understand why an idea will or won't work, and how to design to hit specific goals.
• Strong analytical skills.

EXTRA POINTS

• Experience working with Unreal Engine 5.
• Experience working in UI/UX Design.

Regardless of your qualifications, these are a few things we're always looking for:

• Passion. You love working on video games and are always looking to learn more.
• A sense of humility and an ability to thrive in a team environment. You ask for help when you need it and you want to help your teammates when they need it.
• A knack for time management. You know when to go deeper on a task, and you know when it's time to push through, finish a task and move onto the next thing. Quality is important, but time is finite.
• A drive to execute. Projects you've worked on in the past (professional or hobbyist) were completed, and got completed properly.

WHAT WE OFFER

Salary offered is based on numerous factors such as education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills and organizational needs.

• Initial contract duration of 1 year (32-40 hours per week).
• Yearly full-time gross salary of € 43.000,00 - € 68.000,00 (including 8% holiday bonus).
• Base gross salary + 10% annuity pay (monthly).
• Travel cost compensation (100% of NS train journey or € 0,23 per km of car journey).
• Free lunch