Lead Game Designer (Combat/Systems)

LEAD GAME DESIGNER (11 BIT STUDIOS)

🕹 Unannounced Project
🧠 Lead
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote / 👔 Office (Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱)

🦄 Description
11 bit studios is looking for a Lead Game Designer to help define the gameplay vision of an unannounced project. You will collaborate with Directors and other domain Leads, guide a team of designers, shape foundational systems, and provide feedback across gameplay, combat, systems, story, and level design.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Collaborate with Directors to define gameplay pillars
• Translate the game vision into clear design goals
• Work with other domain Leads to solve development challenges
• Lead and mentor a team of designers
• Provide regular feedback and support to the design team
• Collaborate with other departments on foundational gameplay systems
• Review gameplay, combat, systems, story, and level design
• Maintain consistency across the overall player experience
• Define actionable solutions within production constraints

📚 Required Skills
• Experience as a Lead Designer or Design Director
• At least eight years of experience in gameplay or systems design
• Experience with combat design
• Strong design team management skills
• Ability to work in a hybrid model in Warsaw
• Experience working on indie or AA games
• Understanding of indie and AA production constraints and advantages
• Polish and English at B2 level or higher
• Ability to create clear project documentation
• Ability to define technical requirements
• Ability to work within project and time constraints
• Strong communication skills
• Strong knowledge of current games and industry trends

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience defining gameplay pillars for new intellectual properties
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary Leads
• Experience developing foundational gameplay systems

🍪 What we offer
• Hybrid work with three office days and two remote days per week
• Additional remote days throughout the year
• Flexible working hours
• 20 or 26 days of fully paid holiday leave
• Transparent salary brackets
• Annual bonus and motivation programme
• Private medical package
• Psychological support
• Weekly office yoga
• Multisport membership
• Team training budget
• English and Polish classes
• In-office library
• International working environment
• Relocation budget for candidates from abroad
• Attendance at game development events
• Referral programme
• Annual company events
• Dog-friendly office
• In-house gym
• Car and bicycle parking
• Chill zone with video, board, and arcade games
• Company merchandise
• Preferential loans

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