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Gameloft Iberica is currently seeking new talent to reinforce its creation teams. In the last four years, the Barcelona based development studio has consistently created high-quality, successful iPhone and high-end mobile phones and is now expanding. We are currently hiring:

GAME DESIGNER (Sports)

Post description:

Game designers provide the team with creative input and coordinate the quality of design implementation. Their tasks include (note that this is not a complete list):

• Benchmarking: documentation and competence analysis.
• Game design: from the first concepts to the final game system (cameras, controls, etc.)
• Level design: use of key game design concepts to create fun, creative and addictive environments.
• Operational team management: coordinating the graphics and programming teams assigned to the project.

Profile:

Great creativity and passionate about creating video games. The candidate should demonstrate the most of these aspects, which are necessary roles for any designer: 
• Essential: extensive knowledge of all game systems: all video game genres, table-top role-playing games, trading card games, board games, etc. 
• Passion for team sports.
• Extensive knowledge of casual games for consoles, main titles and audiences.
• Able to transmit an idea concisely and developed analytically.
• Leadership, motivation and ability to communicate within the project development team.
• Essential: fluent in English.


Assets:

• Sense of aesthetics: knowledge in specific referents (cinema, painting, sculpture) or artistic schools that allow creating some general stylistic guides.
• Technical knowledge: mathematics, logics, statistics, pseudocode programming.
• Marketing knowledge: analysis and documentation of market tendencies and ability to understand the project's target.
• Drawing / Composition: able to draw artistic sketches and digitally create images or videos. Experience in the use of the relevant tools.
• Good knowledge and practical experience producing 3D actives and related tools (editors, etc.)
• Broad and varied cultural background (history, literature, sciences, cinema, music, TV)
• Demonstration of previous experience in video games for the Nintendo DS and/or Wii is a plus. 
• Experience in designing sports games is a major asset

Benefits:

• The opportunity to work and learn in a professional environment, with people who have a passion for creating video games.
• Open working climate, a young and dynamic team with a free communication style and possibility to lead a team to praiseworthy achievements that will be fairly compensated.
• Motivating salary, permanent contract, full-time job and additional merit pay system


The post is based in Barcelona.


Contact
Interested applicants should send their CV and cover letter to montse.olivan@gameloft.com. Reference: Game designer