Game Designer

About PDT

PDT, an Astronics Company, provides award-winning product development services and contract manufacturing for highly regulated industries. Our innovation team scouts the latest design and technology trends for a diverse client portfolio across Aerospace & Defense, Internet of Things (IoT), Life Sciences, and Medical Devices. 

Position

As a Game Designer you will be working with our product, art, and engineering teams to create genuinely fun and compelling experiences for the many, many, many players who enjoy our games each day.

Skills & Requirements

• Be a champion of player sentiment, with an eye towards increasing the “wow” factor while maintaining healthy game KPIs
• Create new features and systems for current and upcoming games
• Adjust and fine-tune existing features and experiences to make them more enjoyable from a player’s perspective
• Be an evangelist for good game design and educate the rest of the game teams on best practices so that everyone can think like a game designer to some degree

Your qualification

• You’re an avid gamer who enjoys playing a wide variety of mobile, PC, console, and tabletop games
• You have a proven ability to design and adjust everything from short moment-to-moment experiences to multi-week metagame cycles
• You’re comfortable working on free-to-play games in genres such as social casino, casual, and midcore
• You’re not afraid to dive into the numbers to correctly balance complicated features and economies
• You can work patiently and productively with a wide variety of other teams, including other designers, product managers, producers, engineers, artists, and QA
• You naturally communicate and even sell your ideas to your teammates and get them excited about what they’re building
• You’re able to take feedback and adjust accordingly, and whilst you’re able to advocate your point of view, you also have the ability to find the best compromise
• You’re comfortable making sense of game performance KPIs and metrics and how they relate to game design

What we offer

• Up to 5% employer pension contribution with Aviva
• Private Health insurance with Vitality
• Full dental insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• 28 days’ holiday
• Employee assistance programme
• Bonus scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Personal development & career plans
• Relocation support
• A rated visa sponsor
• Study assistance program
• Moving house day