Senior Game Designer (Gameplay Expert)

Interested in working for an exciting company that is redefining the way people play video games? Interested in working for a world class company in a fun, and rewarding environment in Barcelona? Then Gameloft is the company for you!

GAMELOFT, present in 20 countries around Europe, North America and Asia (more than 5,000 employees), is a leading international developer and distributor of video games looking for new talent to reinforce its creation teams.

Gameloft Barcelona, the studio behind the mobile gaming hits Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Asphalt 8, Asphalt 9 and Disney SpeedStorm is hiring!

Our Barcelona studio is looking for a Senior Game Designer with extensive experience in Gameplay Systems design:

Responsibilities:

• Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, following briefings.
• Taking care of all aspects of game design: prototyping these mechanics, documenting, implementing in game and fine-tuning them.
• Overall work in creative, benchmarking, documentation and analyzing tasks
• Follow-up, maintenance and continuous improvement of assigned features
• Team coordination: coordinating with art and development teams assigned to the project with the associated producer

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Game Design basic rules (3Cs, gameplay systems, learning curve, difficulty balancing, progression balancing, UI, accessibility…)
• Proven experience (3+ years) in gameplay-related designs
• Proven experience in a senior design role
• Able to convey ideas concisely as part of a detailed analysis, and to clearly formalize complex concepts and ideas
• Able to illustrate and/or prototype your ideas visually using standard industry production tools (Photoshop, PowerPoint, Figma, Confluence, Sketch-up, 3D Studio Max, Unity, etc.)
• Good documentation skills
• Passion for creating video games
• Knowledge of classic console and freemium mobile game market,
• Motivation and ability to communicate as part of the project development team;
• Able to listen to feedback from other people and constantly critique your work to achieve the best possible quality
• Good level of English

Assets:

• Experience working in racing games
• Experience with multiplayer systems
• Racing fan or gamer
• High visual creativity
• UI skills
• Design / Composition: able to draw sketches and digitally create images or videos

Why Join the World of Gameloft?

• Because you want to be part of an exceptional experience within a company that is constantly growing!
• Because you want to work with talented people who are industry pioneers!
• Because you want to be part of an international environment with daily contact with other countries & cultures!
• Or, just because you’re looking for a great place to work!

Benefits:

• Permanent contract, full-time job with excellent Social Benefits.
• 25 vacation days per year
• Private medical health insurance
• Flexible compensation with Ticket Restaurant Card
• Flexible work from home hybrid model 
• Free language courses
• Birthday day off!
• 1 month of remote work 
• Merit based salary progression system and a competitive initial salary package.
• Career-development opportunities.
• Excellent local working conditions (quality of offices, geographical location of office in the centre of Barcelona).
• ... and Thursday afterwork beers!

We can’t wait to find our next great talent!

Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted and your CV will be saved in our files for a period of 6 months.

Want to know more? Please visit our Website: www.gameloft.com

If the offer interests you, Join the Game!