Senior Game Designer
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard, optional 4 day working weeks (if preferred) are supported too.
Summary:
Netspeak Games is a growing mobile games studio in need of a Senior Game Designer to join our game team, bringing an experienced eye to the design of Sunshine Days, with a particular emphasis on free-to-play design patterns, economy design, and running a live game. Netspeak Games is a highly agile studio committed to working in a data-centric way, with a working culture built around values of inclusivity, diversity and collaboration. As a senior member of the team, you will be actively involved in creating and perpetuating that culture through your work.
Your impact as a Senior Game Designer:
Create a living world to continually surprise and delight our players
Design and implement seasonal events
Iterate on existing content and systems in response to player research and data and insights
Design a sustainable, monetizable in-game economy
Plan work for game design team and give feedback to game designers
Help develop solid, repeatable processes around implementation of content
Your mission:
Your role is to help drive quality and scalability into every corner of the game. You will bring the benefit of your experience to live events, the game economy, and the player’s journey. You will work closely with the creative director, the commercial and data teams, and the game team. You will design features and shepherd them through to implementation. Sunshine Days is a highly ambitious game and, as an MMO, it will need both a breadth of content and highly refined gameplay systems if it is to succeed, and you will help us create both. In this respect, you’ll be right in the middle of things, and your work will bring you into contact with every part of the game, and you’ll have a major impact on its eventual success.
What you will bring to the team:
Experience working in free to play across multiple titles
A growth mindset and an eagerness to learn and embrace new challenges
Experience in workload management and skill leadership
- Locations
- London Office
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Yearly salary
- 50000 - 80000 GBP
London Office
Perks and benefits
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⚡️ Time to recharge
To do your best work, you need healthy work/life balance, headspace, and plenty of time to recharge your creative batteries! We finish early on Fridays and operate with zero-cruch. We also don't set a limit on paid time off, and make sure everyone takes at least 25 days annual leave.
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👶 Families welcome!
We offer enhanced pay support for pregnant employees.
(Weeks 1 – 12 at 100% pay. Weeks 13 - 20 at 50% pay. Weeks 21 – 24 at 25% pay. Weeks 25 – 39 at the Statutory Maternity Pay rate).
For secondary carers we offer four weeks at 100% pay. Several Netspeakers are proud parents, and we’re often happily treated to guest baby appearances in meetings!
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🎓 Monthly learning
We want all Netspeakers to grow, experiment, learn, and develop while they’re here. Every month, we devote half a day to independent learning - setting time aside to read books, attend talks, try out new things, skill up via courses & more.
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✨ Work together, play together
Our games are fun. Our workplace should be too! We’re a friendly bunch, always looking for a chance to do playful stuff as a team. We run D&D Thursdays, MTG lunches, and all Netspeakers are invited to play games together for the last hour of every Tuesday. (Expect frequent tasty treats through the post too!)
Remote first
What you bring to the table is way more important than where you sit at it. If you’ve got the stuff, you’re a Netspeaker - whether you’re working from home, our London office, your local hotdesk, or all three.
Diversity & inclusion
We’re committed to making Netspeak an equal & empowering workplace, for all.
Our internal D&I working group regularly explores ways we can better represent marginalised groups in our game, Sunshine Days. Meanwhile in the real world, we’re working hard to welcome and support staff from all backgrounds, races, beliefs, identities, sexualities & more.
We’re also dedicated to remaining open and transparent about what we’re doing to be inclusive at Netspeak, and what we still need to work on. Right now, we’re 60% female and minority genders, 30% LGBTQIA, and 20% BIPOC. Our senior team is 50% male/female and 8% BIPOC.
All work, all play
We’re an ambitious studio with big dreams! So pushing ourselves to do our best work is kind of a given. The pay-off? We really take care of our staff. Providing unlimited holiday, monthly learning sessions, early-finish Fridays & more 💛
About Netspeak Games
Hi 👋 We’re Netspeak Games - a remote-first games studio, dedicated to making wholesome social games!
Netspeak was founded on the idea that great games start with great, happy teams. So from the very beginning, we’ve made it our mission to build a company with people at its heart.
Creativity, care, and community is our DNA. Here, we celebrate our differences. Cherish our imperfections. Seek and value diversity. We’re energetic, joyful makers, daring to do things differently. And we’ve worked hard to build a company culture that empowers our team to be their brilliant, best, authentic selves.
Pooling our collective ideas, perspectives, and creativity, we build beautifully-crafted wholesome games, designed to surprise & delight! 💛
Senior Game Designer
Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch, family-first studio that celebrates diversity and community. Unlimited holiday as standard, optional 4 day working weeks (if preferred) are supported too.
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