Position: Lead Game Designer
Company: InStandart
Category: Design
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

We are inviting an experienced  Lead Game Designer to join the team of professionals at InStandart.

We are looking for a person for long-term cooperation who has deep knowledge and experience of Game Development , likes to develop themselves, and wants to apply their knowledge in interesting projects.

If you enjoy gaming, are interested in web3, AR, location-based experiences and enabling the creator economy, this will be a very exciting job.

   The knowledge that will be necessary for your effective work:

5+ years experience with designing complex game systems;
You have experience in sharing a vision for a game, then directing the game design and creating actionable user stories for engineering teams;
Experience in early-stage startups and all that comes with the space;
You need to have been responsible for the entire game life cycle from concept to design, analysis, development and release;
Shipped real games in Production, learned from customer feedback and iterated on the product strategy;
You have an understanding of engineering best practices;
You have excellent organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills;
Ability to accept critique and adjust ideas and features accordingly;
Experience working in a remote multinational environment;
English at the intermediate level and higher.

     
  Responsibilities:

Primary goal is to work with management and fine-tune vision;
Transform ideas into actionable concept and then write tickets for devs to implement ;
Developing design and gaming protocols;
Participate in regular playtest, proactively find problems within gameplay and provide feedback and provide recommendations for next iterative direction;
Work with production and leadership to reach product goals;
working with the writers table (that owns the lore) on scripts and design storyboards;
consider, plan and detail new game elements including rules, story flow, modes of play;
Interact with the game economist and test game loops, levelling;
Lead on UX to make sure game is super fun;
Help with segmentation and market research to find out what target audience wants;


Nice to have:

Experience with mobile, location-based games
Experience with crypto and NFT games
Experience with FPS games
Experience with PvP and Co-op gameplay
Spent some time in testing roles



     InStandart offers:​​​​​

Experienced and friendly colleagues who are ready to share knowledge;
Professional and career development;
Comfortable working environment;
Flexible schedule and remote work;
Paid vacation.

We are looking forward to receiving your CV!