Senior Game Designer Star Wars Digital Collectible Card Game (Laguna Hills) Job at CCG Lab, Laguna Hills, CA

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  • CCG Lab
  • Laguna Hills, CA

Job Description

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior Game Designer to join our team and play a key role in crafting an innovative Star Wars digital Collectible Card Game (CCG). This is an exciting opportunity to join early in the development cycle of a title featuring a high-powered thematic license, helping to design engaging content, systems, and game modes.

As a member of the Design Team, you will have a hand in crafting an all-new CCG. We are seeking designers who want to be on the ground floor of an exciting new game to fill roles for both card design, balance development, and the development of additional modes of play. If you are a passionate designer and have a strong foundation for any school of game design, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities
  • Design cards, build decks and playtest, and deliver feedback on play patterns, power balancing, complexity, and whether or not were achieving our goals for PVP and PVE gameplay.
  • Balance power levels, complexity, and card appeal towards the larger goal of facilitating and maintaining player engagement.
  • Collaborate with other designers and cross-functional teams to achieve product goals.
  • Develop and maintain Game Design Documents and other design materials.
  • Help professionally develop junior game designers.
  • Monitor industry trends and analyze competitor products.
  • Extract and document feedback from playtest and focus groups.
  • Learn the vast intellectual property that our game is centered around.

Qualifications
  • 5+ years of professional game design experience.
  • Experience in a principal or lead design role on a shipped game.
  • Practical and balanced approach to risk analysis and cost/benefit analysis of design decisions.
  • Ability to deconstruct game experiences with empathy for the player.
  • Ability to clearly and granularly articulate your deconstruction of game experiences.
  • Maturity as a critical thinker; have the capacity to be uncertain and to granulate your confidence in your opinions according to each unique challenge the team faces.
  • Passion for CCGs, game systems design, and player engagement.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to present professionally to external stakeholders, players, and peers.
  • Proficiency with Google Workspace tools.

Bonus Points
  • Experience designing for live service games.
  • Experience working with intellectual property licensors.
  • Experience working on Collectible Card Games / Trading Card Games
  • Competitive success as a gamer.

Job Details
  • Full-time in-office position
  • Salary range: 100,000 - 117,000
  • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Location: Laguna Hills, CA (Orange County)

We are an equal-opportunity employer and highly value diversity and inclusion. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States to be considered.

Job Tags

Full time, Part time, Work at office,

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