Creative Director
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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