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Senior Game Designer

Senior Game Designer

Bee Talent SolutionsLos Angeles, CA, United States
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As a Senior Game Designer you will leverage your experience to design, craft, and optimize in and out of game experiences that engage and surprise players. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and work with every tool at hand to innovate and iterate player-focused designs that'll delight millions around the world. You’ll shape the game inside and out, mentoring junior designers and refining the development process to raise the bar for quality.

As a Game Designer you will be responsible for delighting players around the world with mechanics and features that evolve the. You will deeply understand how to balance complexity and depth to create gameplay that’s intuitive and satisfying run after run after run.

On this team, you will be :

  • Player-Focused : You have strong player empathy, and you want to find solutions that make players excited to experience our game.
  • A Collaborator : You want to work elbow-to-elbow with members of other disciplines (such as Engineering or Art) to build a whole experience. You are excited to see problems from a different point of view, and make hard tradeoffs to meet multiple goals.
  • An Optimizer; Tuning is in your heart : Inefficiency bothers you and you work to create well-oiled machines whenever you can.
  • Adaptable : You understand and are comfortable with switching gears between development, prototyping, iteration, and understand the need for rapid re-prioritization.
  • Inclusive : You resist siloing yourself, you seek input, feedback and ask a lot of questions whenever you can to build understanding and empathy for others.

Responsibilities :

  • Design champion kits with new cards, powers, items, relics, and constellations that excite players.
  • Design content to challenge these champions like adventures, event mechanics, and quests.
  • Create production ready implementations of your designs through python scripting.
  • Work collaboratively with a tight interdisciplinary team to implement content on a live service cadence.
  • Provide high-quality feedback to peers and help uplevel content quality across the team.
  • Execute on design goals within defined frameworks, adapting to constraints while maintaining player-centric outcomes.
  • Surface gaps in tools, workflows, or documentation, and propose actionable improvements.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and art partners to align on design requirements and implementation constraints.
  • Required Qualifications :

  • 5+ years of professional experience in game design on at least one live service game.
  • Demonstrated ability to execute within established design structures and contribute meaningfully to ongoing live operations.
  • Operates with a high degree of autonomy, while staying aligned with design direction set by leads.
  • Thrives in small team environments, creating high quality player experiences from limited resources.
  • Strong implementation skills, able to prototype and build content with sustainable, production-ready execution.
  • Exceptional clarity in communication, with a strong ability to convey concepts to remote and interdisciplinary teammates.
  • Desired Qualifications :

  • Experience designing for hero collector or strategy mobile games.
  • Experience mentoring or providing design process feedback.
  • Experience with developing games in Unity.
  • Experience with scripting languages, preferably Python.
  • It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees of Bee Talent Solutions. The Company makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled employees and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

    Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories :

  • Safeguarding confidential and sensitive data while employed by us and while on assignment at a customer of ours
  • Communication with others, including employees and third parties such as vendors, customers (including their employees), and / or players, including minors
  • Accessing our or our customer’s assets, secure digital systems, and networks
  • Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players, employees, and temporary workers
  • These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization and within the organization of any customer to whom you may be assigned while employed by us. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security.

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