Senior Game Design Consultant

The opportunity
As a Senior Game Design Consultant, you will leverage your extensive experience to lead clients in elevating their games’ KPIs through expert guidance and strategic recommendations. You will engage in a diverse range of responsibilities, from conducting in-depth game audits and shaping innovative design strategies to transforming game data into actionable insights. You will also play a key role in refining our consulting services, ensuring we deliver best-in-class support to our clients.

What you'll be doing

• Lead Client Engagements: Partner with clients to provide advanced, tailored advice that improves game design, monetization, and player engagement.
• Conduct Comprehensive Game Audits: Oversee game teardowns, evaluating game mechanics, monetization strategies, and retention features, and providing actionable feedback.
• Collaborate with Analysts and Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with Unity analysts to develop data-informed game design strategies.
• Deliver High-Impact Presentations: Create and present detailed reports and recommendations to clients, highlighting findings and suggested improvements.
• Stay Ahead of Industry Trends: Continuously monitor gaming market trends, player preferences, and emerging technologies, integrating these insights into client recommendations and team discussions.
• Contribute to Thought Leadership: Occasionally we speak at events and write blogs, articles, and other industry-related content to share insights and establish thought leadership within the gaming community.

What we're looking for

• Extensive Experience in Game Design: Proven track record in senior game design roles, with a strong understanding of free-to-play models, ad-based monetization, and live-ops.
• Expertise in Data-Driven Design: Skilled at interpreting data and using insights to guide design decisions.
• Exceptional Communication and Presentation Skills: Ability to clearly convey complex ideas and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong Analytical and Strategic Thinking Abilities: Deep understanding of game economy design, player engagement, and monetization strategies, with a focus on maximizing both player experience and revenue.
• Proven Leadership Skills: Experience managing client relationships and navigating challenging situations with diplomacy.

You might also have

• Knowledge of UI/UX and Accessibility Best Practices: Familiarity with designing user-friendly and accessible game interfaces.
• Experience with Advanced Analytics Tools: Proficiency in using analytics software and tools to interpret game data and support recommendations.
• Familiarity with a Variety of Game Genres: Versatile design skill set that can be applied across different types of mobile game genres.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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