Senior Game Designer

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

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).