Senior Game Designer

Hutch; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mobile games developer in London is seeking a Senior Game Designer to design levels and game features for their projects. The role emphasizes collaboration within a small, empowered team. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in mobile game design, familiarity with Match-3 genres, and effective communication skills. Benefits include flexible hours, remote work options, and a four-day work week.

Benefits

4-Day Work Week

Flexible working hours

Remote working 2 days per week

Private health care

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Access to mental health initiatives

Free snacks and drinks

Social events and parties

Qualifications

• Strong experience with game design in the mobile games industry.
• Intuition for game mechanics and systems.
• Ability to work independently and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on game design and feature development.
• Create new and intuitive Match-3 levels.
• Analyze gameplay data for user experience issues.
• Manage external contractors for development.

Skills

Game design experience

Design mentality

Communication

Collaboration

Unity experience

Tools

Unity

Job description

Senior Game Designer | Games Design | London

We’re Hutch, a mobile games developer & publisher with studios in central London, Dundee and Canada. Our mission is to build the most diverse and engaged automotive gaming community on mobile. Our games have been played by over 300 million people, with new titles in development.

We believe in putting our people first. Here you can make games without sacrificing quality time with family and friends. We strive to ensure our people are happy and healthy. Our teams are small and empowered, they have the independence to take on creative and technical challenges together, to work collaboratively, to make great games and have fun along the way.

We believe in; Looking after our people, small empowered teams, complete transparency, test, learn repeat, community at the core and the freedom to focus on what truly makes a difference to our players.

We’re driven by our players! Come and Join the mission!

Senior Game Designer

Hutch is looking for a Senior Game Designer to join the team in London, working on an existing Hutch project. Reporting directly to the Creative Director, you will be responsible for designing levels, game features and mechanics, and gameplay balancing for one of our live games.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and drive overall game design and feature development
• Collaborate with the design team to create new and intuitive Match-3 levels
• Work with the broader game team of artists, programmers, quality assurance and analysts
• Look through gameplay data to help address user experience issues
• Work with and manage external contractors to support development
• Evolve and iterate on existing features or systems leveraging data insight

Requirements

• Strong experience with game design in the mobile games industry
• Strong design mentality and intuition for game mechanics and systems
• Familiarity with Match-3 mobile games, casual puzzle games and their mechanics (F2P)
• Ability to work independently and efficiently as part of a small, fast-moving team
• Excellent communication and collaboration
• Experience with Unity

Bonus Points

• Experience working on Match-3 projects
• Game Economy balancing and management
• An understanding of Lean development

Benefits

Benefits

Life at Hutch

Our HQ is in the heart of Shoreditch in central London. We have additional offices in Dundee and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. We're an agile, creative team with people at the core of our values. We reward our employees with;

• Hutch is now a 4-Day Work Week company*
• Flexible working hours
• Remote working 2 days per week
• Excellent salary
• Private health care
• Enhanced Maternity (18 weeks) and Paternity leave (6 weeks)
• Access to mental health initiatives such as private mental health coaching
• Support to learn, develop and progress within Hutch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Social events, game launch parties, Thursday night drinks and much more

*This will mean that Hutch employees will work a maximum of 4 days per week (30 hours/week) Mon-Thurs, with zero reductions in pay (compared to a 5 day working week).

Our Values

• Transparent - Being transparent and open helps us to be trusted and fosters integrity.
• Humble - When we are humble we show humility, we let go of egos and we are self-aware.
• Collaborative - We value teamwork, the spirit of collaboration and the results of working together.
• Driven - We have drive and ambition and always push for the best results rather than settling.
• Adaptable - Demonstrating the ability to adapt ultimately helps us grow and helps us thrive in different situations

We value diversity and as an equal opportunity employer we encourage applications from all suitable applicants. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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Come and find out more about Hutch. We make racing games, but it’s not the only thing that drives us - https://www.hutch.io/