Creative Director

Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, pushing the design teams to meet or exceed the experiences and production values on their products.
• Coach and mentor our multidisciplinary design team and helping develop our organization’s creative infrastructure
• Develop and evangelize the standards for both the user experience and the game design process across the organization
• Influencing design thinking and design related agile methodology across the organization
• Establishing and developing best practices with the design and creative teams
• Working with other discipline guild leads to deliver against product and team strategy at an organizational level
• Research emerging discipline skills and techniques in the game design field and use them to expand the design guild capabilities.
• Work with Amber executives to develop a strategy and roadmap for the creative development that aligns with the division’s business goals.
• Ensure that the creative design team owns and drives a cohesive vision for their respective products
• Partner with the Head of Business Intelligence to develop methodologies for live events, A/B test features, game designs, optimizing for business-driven KPIs.
• Research, document, and communicate competitive design trends in games across mobile and HD (PC/Console)

• 10+ years of combined Senior / Lead Game Designer roles or similar positions
• At least 3 titles in portfolio, from inception to completion as a design lead
• Experience in leading game design organizations and initiatives
• Knowledge of game design document format and methodologies needed throughout the lifespan of a project
• The ability to translate product vision to designers and others, influencing external and internal stakeholders
• Ability to lead design projects from concept to completion
• Experience working with cross-functional, international teams is a plus.
• Experience with game and user prototyping tools like Unity, Sketch, Adobe XD

• Servant leader
• Altruist personality, constantly seeking to help others
• Self-motivated and passionate about work
• Demonstrates proactive decision making, ownership and high initiative
• Strong analytical thinker
• Enjoys an interactive and agile work environment and collaborates well with various work styles
• Creative and sharp business sense with exceptional interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively under deadlines and in complex business environments
• Must be creative with a unique approach to persistent problems, adding value to existing products and deriving positives from negatives.
• Must be able to take charge of any situation, exerting a dominant vision and encouraging others to support that vision.
• Must have exceptional communication skills and be able to bridge the gap between the business and creative sides of the division.
• Must be able to multitask and manage a number of different projects at once.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing (English)
• Excellent organizational, people and time-management skills