Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- Games
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Wiesbaden
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you translate the game vision into clear features, design precise specifications, oversee implementation, and iterate game mechanics based on feedback and playtests.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We are looking for an experienced Game Designer who can translate an existing vision into clear, actionable features and systems.
- Your focus is on meticulously developing existing ideas, making them playable, and overseeing the feature from conception to completion within interdisciplinary teams.
- You work closely with feature teams from various disciplines and take ownership of translating the existing vision into concrete, deliverable features.
- You bring a strong technical understanding of real-world processes: you analyze how processes work in reality, identify the relevant rules, dependencies, and edge cases, and translate this into clear, playable mechanics with understandable feedback and good readability.
- You create precise specifications, data models, and parameter sets, define expected system behavior as well as acceptance criteria, and ensure that complex systems can be implemented consistently, testably, and with good iterability.
- You closely oversee the implementation, clarify questions with Engineering/Art/QA, assist with debugging design-vs.-implementation issues, and drive iteration based on playtests and feedback until the desired quality is achieved.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- You hold a degree in Game Design or a comparable field of study with a good to very good grade.
Qualifications
- Good German and English in spoken and written form.
- Strong in operational design work: clear specifications, acceptance criteria, prioritization, and communication with cross-functional teams.
- Analytical, structured working style and confident in handling feedback/playtests.
- Good understanding of the various disciplines of game development.
Experience
- Several years of professional experience as a Game Designer, ideally in a senior role with ownership of features/systems.
- Experience in the simulation genre.
- Experience in designing complex, rule-based systems/mechanisms.
- Experience with progression, unlock, and reward systems including tuning and balancing.
- Ideally, you have experience with/in: Unreal Engine 5, Confluence, Miro, Excel, and similar tools, technical understanding of specific game development practices, analytics, and evaluation.
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What we offer
- Working at weltenbauer. means taking responsibility for topics, projects, and clients to achieve a common goal.
- In doing so, we all pull together and support each other.
- The foundation of our daily collaboration is based on agile values and principles, supporting colleagues and supervisors, a professional work environment, and a good dash of humor.
- We offer you a modern workplace where you can work either completely remotely or in a hybrid mode, partly at the company and partly from home.
- You coordinate with your team on how often you meet in person for on-site meetings and when everyone can work undisturbed from home.
- If you travel to Wiesbaden for a personal meeting, we will accommodate you directly at the company's apartment near the office.
- All employees have a personal time account with us.
- This allows us to organize our work flexibly and compensate 100% of overtime.
- With flexible start times in the morning, it is also possible to begin the workday at an individual time.
- All employees can regularly dedicate part of their working time to personal development in project-relevant topics.
- Furthermore, every employee has the opportunity at least once a year to attend an external conference or training event at the company's expense.
- That inspires, broadens horizons, and is fun!
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weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH
weltenbauer. Software Entwicklung GmbH, based in Wiesbaden, is an experienced software developer focused on creating video games and innovative 3D software for industrial applications. The company collaborates closely with international partners and takes full responsibility for turning game ideas into concrete, deliverable features. With strong technical expertise and agile working methods, the team realizes complex virtual worlds.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior Game Designer
- Location
- Wiesbaden
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
