Generalist Designer

vSmall Team - Creative Freedom - RPG Fantasy Survival Sandbox

Location
Guildford
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
Salary on application
Posted
26 days ago

If you have DevOps or software developer experience and you’re seeking a new role in Guildford, we want to hear from you. Skillsearch is helping a games studio recruit a full-time Generalist Designer, and the role comes with an attractive salary and benefits package. 

As a Generalist Designer, you’ll play a key role in developing innovative, meaningful and technically exciting games enjoyed by a diverse audience of millions.  

In your first few weeks in this Designer role, you can expect to: 

  • Contribute to a humble, empathetic and ambitious development team 
  • Directly create new missions, stories, expeditions or features 
  • Make good use of feedback from those around you to shape your work or develop your skills 
  • Collaborate with and amplify the work of coders, artists and other designers 
  • Bring a player’s perspective to features as they’re developed. 

To apply for this role, you will need demonstrable ability to take an idea and turn it into a game or interactive experience, either as a professional shipped game or as a self-published or university project. You will also require the following: 

  • Hands-on skills, such as in mission scripting, systems implementation or technical art 
  • Able to respond to (and provide) feedback constructively 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication 
  • Proactive approach to problem solving with good analytical skills 
  • Organised, self-motivated and able to work independently. 

You'll receive an excellent salary and benefits package for your knowledge, expertise and flexibility. 

We'd love you to apply for this full-time Generalist Designer position in Guildford, and we're waiting to hear from you. Please contact Hassan from Skillsearch at hh@skillsearch.com today. 

Here at Skillsearch, we're a recruitment company. In the simplest form, this means we place people at new companies - but it's so much more than that. For the past 30 years, we've been busy helping people (like you) with sought after skills find jobs in the Games, Interactive and Enterprise Systems industries all around the globe. Our company comprises a team of dedicated consultants that work across various niche technologies, including Games, Virtual Reality, AR and XR, Workday, Oracle, Peoplesoft, and eCommerce. We are always exploring other cutting-edge markets. Follow us to see a few of the jobs we're working on, find out which events you can see us at, and keep up with news in the technology, gaming and interactive world. Welcome to Skillsearch! 

Years of experience and salary levels are shown purely as a guide. We will only consider applications from candidates that can demonstrate the skills or experience required for the role.

Please be aware that while we would love to respond to every application we receive, due to high numbers we cannot guarantee this. We do however appreciate any time you invest into the application and will make sure to get in touch should anything in future more closely fit your skillset.

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Andy Demetriou

Principal Game Design & Production Consultant

Andy leads our Game Design and Production division on our games team and his favourite games are narrative-based, survivor horror and strategy so Andy is a great person to have on your side during a zombie apocalypse! Aside from gaming, his spare time is dedicated to trying lasagne from as many different Italian restaurants as humanly possible. We all support his pursuit of this mission during office lunchtimes - especially if there are leftovers! Get in touch with Andy for all your lasagne, apocalypse and Game Design/Production needs!

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