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• Job Title - Senior Mobile Game Designer - Hybridcasual
• Reports Into - Head of Design
• Location - Hybrid / Bangalore

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with over over 1 Billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Ninja Warrior
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 
• Kwalee Artificial Intelligence (K.A.I) - win prizes for proposing useful AI initiatives

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As our Senior Game Designer you have a talent to create fun, exciting game experiences for our players. You’ll be designing hybridcasual games, managing and overseeing hybridcasual projects and coaching of the design team 

Your Team Mates

Our team is a diverse group of designers from all around the world; some working in the office, some remote. As a core department to the company, we're given a large degree of freedom and creative responsibility over every game we make.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Planning, managing and overseeing of hybridcasual game projects
• Motivate, inspire and mentor a small team of designers, encouraging a culture of constant learning
• Support your team members on solving complex design, technical and implementation issues
• Evolving and adapting game designs based on play testing, feedback and live metrics.
• Driving long term player engagement by understanding mobile players needs and motivations.

Your Hard Skills

• Track record of working either on successful hybridcasual games or alternatively has worked on both casual and hypercasual games
• Knowledge of mobile free-to-play game monetisation techniques.
• Ability to work creatively in a demanding team environment.
• Experience managing a team
• Strong creative ideas and imagination, able to entertain players with challenges, humour, surprises and fun.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Sizzle is an exciting new startup that’s changing the world of gaming.  At Sizzle, we’re building AI to automate gaming highlights, directly from Twitch and YouTube streams. 

For this role, we're looking for someone that is a gaming streamer (mobile & PC), plays a variety of games, and can test out Sizzle’s various new features. Specifically, you will test each feature by streaming various games and making suggestions for improving the process. You will also test the quality of highlights produced and make suggestions for improvement.  You will work closely with the AI engineering, front end, product management, and data annotation teams.

You will:

• Stream various games as requested
• Test out each feature and provide feedback on user interface and quality of output
• Watch highlights generated and make suggestions on improvement
• Suggest new features
• Work closely with the engineering, product management and annotation teams to get the features implemented

You should have the following qualities:

• Be a passionate gamer
• Must be a regular streamer on Twitch and/or YouTube
• Play a variety of popular PC and mobile games (e.g. Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, Free Fire, etc).
• Willingness to work hard and hit deadlines
• Work well with people
• Interested in learning about AI and computer vision
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job

Skills:

Gaming, streaming, AI, computer vision, quality assurance, testing

Work Experience:  0 years to 3 years

At Audify Tech Private Limited, we are looking for a talented and creative Unity Game Developer to work at the highest level of virtual and augmented reality. You will be responsible for implementing game functionality, translating design ideas, concepts, and requirements into a functional and engaging game. Our ideal candidate will have 5-8 years experience in Unity Development technologies, strong programming and coding skills, a keen eye for detail, and the analytical skills to identify potential issues with a design plan. Working across many different departments, this role requires a candidate with excellent communication skills, a pro-active attitude and a good team ethic to unify a common vision.

Objectives of this Role

• Take ownership of entire features and components of the game lifecycle and lead the product design and code elements
• Collaborate with other members of the team to deliver large and complex features on time and to a high standard
• Be part of the development process and contribute improvements and suggestions, driving the quality of the code throughout the entire production cycle
• Mentor other developers in the team and help maintain code, product, and process quality
• Partner with Art, Design and Production teams to ensure schedules and goals meet business and project needs
• Conduct code reviews and be part of the hiring process for future colleagues
• Bring meaningful contributions to our product and the entire team

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Plan, design and implement high-quality game features working as part of the wider studio team
• Transform design specification into functional game assets
• Establish an effective strategy and development pipeline
• Quickly create and iterate on prototypes showcasing new designs and interaction patterns
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
• Ensure the best performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and games
• Identify process and application bottlenecks and implement solutions in a timely manner.

Skills and Qualifications

• 5-8 years experience with Unity 3D/Content Development
• Strong 3D math skills
• Strong C# object-oriented programming and scripting language skills
• Experience working with game assets (meshes, animations, materials etc)
• Experience profiling and optimising game and render performance (GPU and CPU)
• Experience working on a physics-based game project, source control systems such as Git in a multi developer team environment.
• Understanding UX design process and experience working with UX design team and/or development team

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Masters degree is preferred

The Games Lead will work with a cross-disciplinary team to manage the development process on a new, unannounced FPS shooter game.

This person will work primarily with engineering and QA to support and facilitate the on-time and on-budget delivery of our game.

Responsibilities

• Manage hybrid Scrum-based development process using different tools such as Clickup.com, Asana, JIRA, spreadsheets, Miro, and other tools used to manage teams and processes.
• Work with engineering in planning and development oversight: manage daily check-ins, track progress, and lead end-of-sprint retros.
• Ensure we are getting the most out of engineering, work closely with design to ensure on-target implementation, and track against the schedule to keep on time and on budget.
• Ensure that we are utilizing the most effective development processes possible.
• Create reports that quantitatively track our progress every week and highlight progress and areas for improvement.
• Coordinate QA and support for maximal efficiency and effectiveness.
• Own the product roadmap, development schedule, and overall project P&L.
• Ensure we approach development focused on a key risks-based approach working closely with all disciplinary leads and the CEO.

Qualifications

• Prior lead PM or producer role on at least 1 successful F2P mobile title full lifecycle.
• Experience working on at least 3 mobile game titles, full lifecycle.
• Expert knowledge of all major development processes: You should know the whys (why are we doing things in specific ways?) and not just the actions/motions of the practices.
• Expert knowledge of all major PM tools (Asana, JIRA, and Monday at the minimum).
• Excellent leader and motivator of teams.
• World-class problem solver.
• Appropriate alignment with our company’s Values.
• Ability to think outside of process (when necessary).
• Willingness to abandon politics and bullshit and instead focus on problems & solutions and the delivery of as high quality of a product as our team can possibly create.
• An extremely hard working and get it done work attitude.

Responsibilities Include

The ideal candidate should be both creative and detail-oriented, has proven mobile game design experience, and is comfortable working with stakeholders ranging all the way from product and marketing teams to the engineering team. The work environment is fast-paced and results driven.

Roles and Responsibilities

 Own the entire design of new features existing games or new games and take full responsibility for coordinating with various stakeholders until go live

 Generate new and innovative feature ideas, enhancements to the existing products and collate

requests from both internal and external requestors

 Create innovative user experience design including usability and interaction design flow for features

 Create functional and design documents, business cases, user experience flow and wireframes, conduct reviews with requestor groups and development teams and be the main contact for the specifications/design during the game development and implementation phases.

 Interact with all relevant stakeholders to drive timely, seamless and successful rollouts/launches.

 Define, track and improve key product metrics and monitor those metrics. 

Skills and Experience Desired

 Have a passion for games

 Minimum 5+ years of Game Design experience in mobile and ideally designing free to play games within-app purchases

 Experience in designing games for Android and iOS is a must

 Strong analytical, organizational and creative skills

 Exceptional levels of attention to detail

 Must be proficient in Excel, Formulas, and able to provide visual designs with mock-ups in any tool ofyour choice.

 Experience with live game events/sales design and content calendar planning

 Strong analytical abilities and able to synthesize game systems and mechanics to improve game

features and systems

 Understanding the specifics of social and mobile games

 Knowledge of the market and the main trends of social and mobile games

 Knowledge and experience with the main game metrics

 Ability to create a high-quality, addictive online and social game feature-sets

 Experience with multiple aspects of game design discipline: concept, game progression, combat,

interface, monetization, and retention

 Experience in designing games and monetization models for F2P games.

 Thorough understanding of mobile gaming ecosystems.

 Knowledge of designing traditional card, board and dice game is a plus.

 Proven ability to create detailed game design documents.

 Understanding of social networks and social gaming markets is a plus.

 Ability to work in a fast-paced cross-functional team environment is a must.

 A very hands-on and keen eye for detail, with the ability to present business and technical issues,

ideas, and recommendations clearly in verbal, written and presentation formats.

 Positive, pro-active attitude with a will to deliver quickly, adhering to tight deadlines.

Location: Bangalore