Gameloft is hiring a Senior Game Designer for our Barcelona studio to craft compelling gameplay experiences for mobile titles. You'll be responsible for designing, prototyping, implementing, and fine-tuning fun and immersive gameplay mechanics from concept to final polish.
What You'll Do
- Design fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, following project briefs.
- Own all aspects of game design: prototyping mechanics, documenting, implementing in-game, and fine-tuning.
- Perform creative work, benchmarking, documentation, and analysis tasks.
- Manage the follow-up, maintenance, and continuous improvement of assigned features.
- Coordinate with the art and development teams assigned to the project, alongside the producer.
What We're Looking For
- Strong knowledge of Game Design fundamentals (3Cs, gameplay systems, learning curve, difficulty balancing, progression balancing, UI, accessibility).
- Proven experience (3+ years) in gameplay-related design.
- Proven experience in a senior design role.
- Ability to convey ideas concisely in detailed analysis and to formalize complex concepts clearly.
- Ability to illustrate and/or prototype ideas visually using standard industry tools.
- Good documentation skills.
- Passion for creating video games.
- Knowledge of the classic console and freemium mobile game market.
- Motivation and ability to communicate effectively as part of a development team.
- Ability to listen to feedback and constantly critique your own work to achieve the best quality.
- A good level of English.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on racing games.
- Experience with multiplayer systems.
- Being a racing fan or gamer.
- High visual creativity.
- UI skills.
- Design/Composition skills: able to draw sketches and digitally create images or videos.
Technical Stack
- Photoshop, PowerPoint, Figma, Confluence, Sketch-up, 3D Studio Max, Unity
Team & Environment
You will coordinate with art and development teams assigned to the project alongside the associated producer.
Benefits & Compensation
- Permanent contract, full-time job with excellent Social Benefits.
- 25 vacation days per year.
- Private medical health insurance.
- Flexible compensation with a Ticket Restaurant Card.
- Flexible work from home hybrid model.
- Free language courses.
- Birthday day off.
- 1 month of remote work per year.
- 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).
- Thursday afterwork beers.
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid model based in our Barcelona office.
Gameloft is an equal opportunity employer.
