Senior Live Operations Designer

Job Description

Just 13 miles south of Manchester and a 15-minute train journey, is the attractive market town of Wilmslow. Here amongst the boutique shops and independent cafes and bars is the stunning Playdemic studio. Acquired by EA in 2021, Playdemic is home to the top 10 grossing, BAFTA winning mobile smash – Golf Clash. Having opened at the beginning of 2020, our award-winning, bespoke studio space offers conventional desk space as well as indulgent breakout areas, meeting rooms and alternative workspaces. The office has been designed to create an environment that encourages and allows our team to do their very best work.

As a Senior Live Operations Designer within the Golf Clash team at Playdemic reporting to the Lead Designer, you will collaborate and liaise with Production, Designers, Artists, and other live-op content creators to produce designs and input data for our weekly releases.

You will share daily updates with your senior peers and other Live-op team members. Once settled in the role, you will mentor Junior Designers and train them on Data management and data entry.

Responsibilities

Live Op Content Planning:
• Create a 12-month live op roadmap with Development Manager & Marketing team
• Collaborate with the Marketing team to identify Licensing opportunities
• Collaborate on theming design with UA/Marketing team and artists
• Collaborate on Ball stats planning with the Business Intelligence and design teams

Live Op Management:
• Manage the Live Op designer team
• Weekly Tournament, Bundle, Ball and Season Pass data
• Checkpoint Challenge Data setup and maintenance
• Golden Shot Data setup and maintenance
• Work with the Artists and designers to design Golf Courses
• Work with the development teams to fix bugs in the above areas
• Maintain data setup documentation, including Step by step guides, workflow diagrams and examples of data setups.
• Optimisation of Live Ops. Work with the Analytics team to monitor performance and make improvements.

Key Skills
• Experience working on a live game with experience working on Live Operations Content Delivery and Data
• Experience with game databases and data structures
• Excel experience, especially with balancing game systems
• Technical skills with game development tools including Confluence and JIRA

Bonus Skills
• Prior experience working in a Mobile Game Development Studio
• Experience supporting games, with a significant user base, through maintenance, new feature deployment and live operations.
• Interest in mobile games, with an understanding of the free-to-play genre
• A degree in a game design related subject, or equivalent experience
• An eye for efficiency to improve workflow in the level-design process.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r06zn1-3-145-186-6-42 in your application.