Game Designer

This is a Full Time Job

Game Designer, Amazon Games

Amazon Games is looking for a Game Designer to partner with us as we build exciting new casual games with a multiplayer component. You will help establish an entirely new category for gaming and should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects. In this role, you'll lead thinking on what kind of great games will be best for all kinds of casual game players. You will assess content, help developers design for Amazon customers, and invent new game benefits.

The opportunity to delight millions of gamers is massive, but it's also an ambiguous challenge. You will leverage your game design knowledge to help define and prioritize content for Amazon customers who play games. You'll work with world-class third-party game developers to assess and design great exclusive content. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and will collaborate with engineering, marketing, and other stakeholders to resolve ambiguity and balance competing priorities.

Key job responsibilities
* Provide compelling vision and thought-leadership on games to peers and stakeholders.
* Generalize requirements (functional and technical) gathered from a diverse set of customers, industry trends, and larger technology trends. Determines minimum viable product requirements.
* Participate in strategy planning by developing (or helping to develop) marketing-related ideas into full concepts and prototypes.
* Constantly stay up to date with products and services across the game industry, and also within Amazon, Twitch, and Game Studios.
* Drive key projects worldwide with complete independence.
* Work with developers to ensure your content and features are delivered to high quality

Qualifications
• 4 years experience as a game designer working in the game industry
• Experience working with third-party developers to build great content
• Experience creating and documenting high-quality design guidelines and development strategies
• Has shipped games across a variety of platforms on time and on budget
• A portfolio that demonstrates process and capabilities in crafting compelling gameplay
• Experience communicating with customers, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe products, and technical designs
• Experience working on live service games