Creative Director

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a chance to join a cutting-edge trailblazing studio, working with fast-paced emerging technologies and to be part of the digital ownership revolution.

Our client is a developer and publisher of new gaming experiences and collectibles that utilise NFT and blockchain technologies at their core.

They are looking for a passionate Creative Director to join the team and help deliver ground-breaking games to millions of players around the world. The successful candidate will assist a new CCG where players have true ownership of their personal game content, as well as define gamified content for both original IP and iconic brand-based extensions throughout web 3.0, Metaverse and NFT game content.

This is an exciting time to join, they have been paving the way for NFT utilising games since 2017. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be the creative ambassador across the studio's game projects, as well as provide input to help steer gamified web 3.0 brand extension content for external partners, alongside the Studio Director
• Manage, mentor, and regularly review the internal game designers, providing them with clear career progression and self-development goals
• Ensure design teams have the proper techniques and tools to deliver top quality; systems, gameplay and content designs
• Define and drive problem-solving culture both on your design team and for the team at large
• Effectively communicate and evangelize the vision for reality studio projects upwards to executive management, outwards to external partners and inwards to the development teams
• Guide development of features and systems to drive increased KPIs
• Work closely with other development leads to ensure that gameplay and meta system requirements are fully captured across all disciplines
• Work with the Studio Director to ensure design practices, standards and pipelines are followed and optimised for our products and teams
• Work with Production to identify/track development risks and issues, providing mitigations and solutions for design related tasks
• Participate in project scheduling, helping other designers to estimate tasks and identify dependencies
• Help to maintain the flow of information and feedback for designers across the team, working in a clear, concise, and constructive manner
• Manage, mentor and nurture existing design staff, lead by example, drive change, and inspire others to generate new ideas
• Identify and propose additional design staffing needs

• Maintain a close working relationship with the Studio Director, producers, leads, and other teams to continually push quality
• Ensure that gameplay and feature implementations meet the quality standards and not only make best use of any licensed IP but stay within the boundaries of any licensor requirements
• Champion and encourage creative, original, and inventive thinking within the team
• Recognise and seek to understand different people’s perspectives to reach a suitable compromise or solution for the good of the project.

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 4+ years experience in the Games Industry
• Shipped multiple titles in a lead, principal, or director design role
• Strong design skills across a variety of techniques and styles
• Experience in team leadership and management
• Expert knowledge of the video game development processes and pipelines
• Gain and maintain an excellent Knowledge of all the latest games that are in direct competition with the products that are being developed at the studio
• A creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills
• Enthusiastic team player with a can-do attitude
• Have advanced presentation skills
• Experience of working and implementing design content to a game engine such as Unity
• Enjoy working with people and helping to find solutions to issues collaboratively
• Excellent verbal and written communication with a keen eye for detail
• Be comfortable managing and inspiring team members with your natural leadership abilities
• Remain cool, calm and collected when faced with issues
• Embrace and help others to embrace positive changes within the Studio
• BE PASSIONATE ABOUT GAMES

BONUS ATTRIBUTES:

• Free-to-play or play-to-earn game experience
• Enjoy a wide spectrum of games covering many genres
• Be interested in blockchain technologies such as NFTs and Generative Art Projects
• Experience developing on iOS & Android as well as desktop applications and web-based games