Senior Game Designer - The Sims

Job Description

Locations: This is a fully remote position, available across most European locations.

Welcome to Maxis, home to tinkerers, craftspeople, & storytellers. Our drive is to inspire everyone to make a better world through creative play. As the developer of The Sims, we create games and experiences for millions of people around the world and are always looking for new ways to inspire our players. Maxis is a place where you can do what you love and help others grow while doing it; a place where your unique voice can be heard and seen. We put creativity and inclusivity at the core of our work and don't settle for seeing the world only as it is, but strive to build a world as it could be. Read on to see how you can join our team and dream big.

As a Senior Game Designer on The Sims 4, you'll work with a team of enthusiastic industry craftspeople from all walks of life. You will use your passion and knowledge to design player-first experiences that surprise, delight, and invite millions of Simmers around the world to Play with Life.

You will report into our European Senior Development Director.

Responsibilities:
• Design and own features from concept through implementation to completion.
• Establish player experience goals for designs, implement and tune features to meet those goals.
• Mentor more junior members of the team and provide feedback to other Designers.
• Improve designs based on play test feedback, game metrics, team input and community feedback.
• Think creatively using the tools and time available to build unique and fun experiences for players.
• Adopt and become proficient in new or proprietary development tools to implement and debug your work.
• Think about the future when implementing content, resulting in smartly scripted scalable systems and good design patterns and practices.
• Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, animators, modelers, engineers, quality assurance, and producers to get support from the team and guide a project from initial design to final production.
• Advocate for the design vision and get the team excited to work on it.
• Balance your design vision with input from your peers to find practical solutions that achieve the intended player experience.
• Become an expert on the game and our community, drawing from our large, varied player base and our past games to make and defend intelligent design choices going forward.
• Help establish best practices for the team and improve process and efficiency.

Requirements:
• Shipped a AAA HD title.
• Excellent creative skills with experience creating detailed design documentation and maintaining it throughout a project life cycle.
• Design and implementation experience with game features that focus on open-ended player creativity.
• Effective at working both autonomously and in groups of different profiles.
• Experience with games in The Sims PC franchise and other simulation games.
Other desirable skills:
• Led and mentored a small team of Designers.
• Comfortable with Visio, JIRA, online collaboration suites such as Confluence.

More About Maxis:

Many team members have a tenure of over a decade. Here are some top reasons folks join our team and stay:
• Work life balance. We work diligently to ensure we make incredible products while prioritizing our team member's wellbeing. We uphold a people first mentality.
• Commitment to diversity. We take immense pride in the diversity of our team members. We know unique perspectives and experiences are critical to our success as a team in order to produce the leading simulation game in the world.
• Creative autonomy. We firmly believe good ideas come from anywhere. Joining the team means contributing to the whole production process, from concept through final in game experience.
• Purpose. We provide meaningful content that impacts our player's in game and real world experiences, motivating us to push the boundaries of what's possible.
• Community. We thrive at Maxis because of our incredibly supportive and creative colleagues and players that bring fun and positivity into doing what we love.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g30nbn-3-143-218-146-42 in your application.