Athena Studio
We are looking for talented game designers who have a great passion for puzzle/casual/arcade game genre. She/he will be working with awesome team members toward a designated goal under the supervision of a PM. His/her main tasks are:
- Research and select promising ideas to create prototypes that can bring great experience to players of the puzzle genre
- Detailing the gameplay ideas into Game Design Document
- Design and balance game system in-game economy, difficulty progression.
- Design levels for puzzle games.
- Monitor and analyze game performance and user data to improve existing features and game KPI metrics.
- Leading the collaborative process with other designers, artists, engineers to transform game concepts into high-quality products with strong player engagement, retention, and monetization.
- Continuously review development progress to ensure the final product quality meets the high expectations.
- Improve existing features or deliver new features into existing games: increase KPI metrics.
- Leading the A/B Test effort to find out more insight, and share with others.
Nice to have if you have experience in Product Owner position
- Backlog Planning (Refine/Grooming)
* Break Game Design Document into smaller components
* Set goal, priority, and assign issues & related tasks for each sprint.
- Sprint Planning & sprint review: Prepare document before the meeting
KNOWLEDGE
- Knowledge about Game mechanics, game flow, tool support for game designing.
- At least 1-year experience in Analytics, statistical, probability skill
- Graduated from University that requires Math, Probability, Logic skill
- Prototyping or ideation know-how
- Knowledge about Games statistic & tracking
- Plus:
* User psychology & biology
* Statistic in casual games (hybrid monetization model)
* Background in technical or programming
* Knowledge about Mobile game market, game trending especially in casual and puzzle genre
ABILITIES
- Drive for result, Self-motivated & Self-organized
- Self-critique and accept outside critique
- Identify and solve issues proactively
- Keen eye for details
- Passion for playing and making games
- Sense of responsibility and teamwork spirit
- Blending between Player Focus + Innovation + Decision Making
- Superb communication skills, both verbal and written
- Plus
* Experience shipped one or more puzzle/arcade/casual games
* Game balancing, including in-game economies and difficulty progression
* Ability to create a prototype by yourself with any creation software or game engine (Unity3d, cocos, Game Maker,...)
* A dedicated balance between left/right brain
English
Speaking: Intermediate - Reading: Intermediate - Writing: Intermediate
Millions of users are enjoying our casual games every day. It creates a huge opportunity for us to grow but also creates great challenges to overcome and serve more and more users.
Every day at Athena, we try to apply science and art into our products to make them beautiful, exciting, fun and useful. Our mission is to create 5-star products which entertain and enrich people’s life. We believe that when technology, art, and hard working come together, the masterpieces will be born.
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