Gaming Jobs at Improbable

The Multiplayer Group (MPG) are 300 developers and data scientists, helping our clients and partners build 20+ AAA projects at any one time. We’re probably the most experienced multiplayer dev group in the world and we’re set up to help the games industry make games more easily, to deliver the highest quality, and become long-term partners.

We hire the best people, our talented team is spread across the globe. We’re remote-friendly and big on wellbeing, so if you love the sound of us, we’d love to hear from you!

As our Principal Game Designer, you’ll help develop and deliver high-quality gameplay assemblies for our AAA projects, across our high-profile co-development partners. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing game designs, iterating them into high-quality playables for our partner’s games . You will also be acting as an interface between design and engineering, by helping develop and test new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Understand client needs and ensure that the elements developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment
• Assess the workload vs. production capacity, plan the work, and set priorities for the game design team
• Allocate duties and follow the evolution of the team’s progress on game design deliverables
• Able to drive and follow-up on prototyping (both digital and paper based) with other game designers and software engineers
• Communicate the project objectives, strategies, and general information to all team members so as to give visibility to the advancement of the development of the game and the other crafts
• Actively participate and act as a regular liaison in the decision-making process with management and oversee the necessary adjustments to ensure that the game design team meets expectations
• Attend playtests and be solution-oriented to the problem encountered
• Carry out performance development reviews
• Participate in the selection of team members
• Create a work environment that is motivating for team members and which fosters development and creation

What we need from you:

• Extensive experience as a Game Designer - preferably on AAA titles
• Must have contributed to/shipped multiple products in a Senior or Principal position
• Experience in supervising a team of designers - being our Creative Director’s right-hand person 
• Excellent ability to organise and structure your own and the team’s work
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
• Have the ability to adapt to different situations
• Strong analytical skills
• Working autonomously and able to drive decision making internally as well as externally with our clients
• Experience writing and explaining high quality and thorough design documentation 
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with other game development disciplines

What would help:

• Experience in a generalist role, working across all facets of game design
• Experience in free-to-play design
• Experience in designing games for console and/or PC
• Experience in technical design