Lead Game Designer

Description

Sony Online Entertainment
Job Title: Lead Game Designer for New Flagship Project
Location: San Diego, CA
Based in San Diego, Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) has an array of games in development at studios in Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA, and Taiwan including The Agency, Free Realms and DC Universe Online. These new titles are being designed to push the envelope of online entertainment quality, innovation and delivery.
SOE, the company responsible for the pioneering, global EverQuest® entertainment phenomenon, has developed and/or published a number of ground-breaking and genre-defining games, including EverQuest®, EverQuest®II, Star Wars Galaxies®, PlanetSide®, The Matrix Online™, EverQuest® Online Adventures, Champions of Norrath™, Untold Legends™ and Field Commander™.

This is an exciting opportunity to conceive and lead the game design of our new flagship project and we are looking for a Lead Game Designer to ensure its success!
Relationships
• Leads the design team, providing day-to-day and long-term direction, goals, mentoring, and guidance.
• Works with the Producer to define design goals, scheduling, and milestones.
• Works with other team leads to service their needs, champion the needs of the design team, and maintain an excellent flow of cross-disciplinary information.
• Works with the Franchise Creative Director to establish the creative vision, long-term design goals, and maintain the quality of the game’s design and content.
Responsibilities
• Owns the creative vision of the game.
• Responsible for the execution quality of the creative vision for the game.
• Manages the design team to successfully meet project goals and deadlines.
• Provides training, guidance, and feedback to the design team.
• Responsible for meeting design team deadlines and goals, and assuring the quality of all design work.
• Establishes and maintains a great, inclusive, creative working environment.
• Establishes and maintains best practices and processes for the design team.
• Creates and maintains design documentation, including the overall game design document.
• Establishes and maintains core gameplay mechanics and content guidelines.
• Makes decisions on how to accomplish current design goals.
• Coordinates workflow, scheduling and assignments with other team leads, and aids the information flow between both the designers and to other disciplines.
• Communicates the design vision for the product both internally to the team and company, as well as externally to the press and public.