Senior Game Designer
Horsham, England, UK•Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria
Posted 5 months ago
Last seen 4 months ago
Active
temporary
Design
Job Summary
Join Creative Assembly as a Senior Game Designer to shape the immersive battle experiences within the acclaimed Total War franchise. This role offers significant impact on game quality, personal development, and the chance to work with industry-leading creatives in a hybrid work environment.
About this job
Creative Assembly is seeking a Senior Game Designer to join the Total War franchise team. This role involves taking full ownership of multiple game features, from research and documentation to implementation and balancing, ensuring the highest quality and an immersive player experience. You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to uphold the game's vision and mentor junior team members.
Requirements
- Significant games industry knowledge and experience, including shipping games and understanding the full development process.
- Demonstrable ability to analyze gameplay features, identify strengths and weaknesses, and recommend improvements.
- Experience using Excel to balance large sets of numbers for unit balance and progression systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Wide-ranging experience playing various video games and understanding their mechanics.
- Ability to listen, be open to feedback, and integrate it into your work.
- Desirable: Shipped at least one title in a Senior Designer position.
- Desirable: Shipped titles or personal projects, including board game designs.
- Desirable: Deep understanding of Total War games and Strategy genres (Grand, RTS, 4X).
- Desirable: Modding experience.
- Desirable: Experience in gameplay scripting using LUA, C#, or other languages.
- Desirable: Experience in designing complex combat simulations.
- Desirable: Experience in using metrics to improve design.
- Desirable: Great attention to detail and strong visual sense.
Benefits & Perks
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Opportunity to Work from Anywhere for a temporary period each year (restrictions apply).
- VISA and bespoke relocation packages for you and your dependents.
- Personalised career development and training opportunities.
- Opportunity to attend and speak at global events.
- Enhanced holiday allowance, maternity and paternity breaks, flexibility with core hours, and no-notice holidays.
- Private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover, and free health care screening.
- Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, and all Bank holidays.
- Join our Diversity and Inclusion Network – an employee-led group.
- Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site.
- Wellbeing support and virtual confidential counselling.
- Community activities including parties, football, and more.
- Studio sites have disabled access.
- In-studio wellbeing programme.
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