
Niantic
Game Designer
Full-time
Hybrid, Tokyo, Japan
13 days ago
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Responsibilities
- Become a pro at game balancing by leading the fixing of core systems, events, and future releases.
- Be the point of contact on data analysis and data driven decision-making, working with colleagues from neighboring departments to drive product updates into fruition.
- Communicate designs with clear and concise documentation.
- Deliver clear and concise engineering-ready product specs.
- Be a key player in contributing to roadmap planning.
- Break down multi-faceted issues into workable components to guide our product from creation to launch.
- Work with team leadership to define the operational properties of project development, including development processes, production planning, status reporting, risk management, resource management and budgets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.
Qualifications
- Demonstrate exceptional organization, communication, and management skills.
- Experience working on game design and game balancing.
- Experience working and shipping features for a high profile game with a significant amount of daily active users (ideally on a mobile platform).
- Experience working with external developers and A/B split testing.
- Experience working as a horizontal leader of cross-functional teams (design, engineering, production, etc.).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others.
- Fluency in Japanese language.
Plus If...
- You have an interest in AR and mobile games.
- You have vast knowledge of the Free-to-Play game market.
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