Lead Designer

As a Lead Game Designer, you will be highly creative and have a strong passion for playing and creating games. You will lead a team of designers and take responsibility for specific areas of the game design and work closely with all disciplines to deliver on the overall game vision.

Third Kind Games is an independent game studio based in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the heart of the UK games industry. Third Kind was founded in 2016, by a group of industry veterans from many high profile companies such as Activision, Codemasters, Sony, Crytek and we have been growing ever since.
We're now one of the largest independently owned game dev studios, we have also launched our new studio in Poland, built on the same shared TKG spirit and values.
We work with some of the biggest AAA names in the industry such as Blizzard, Amazon, Microsoft and Mythical Games. Alongside our client projects, we're also working on our own IP, so it's a super exciting time at Third Kind Games!
At TKG we want to offer a place where our team can be their most creative, imaginative and curious selves. We dare to dream and turn that ambition into a reality with our combined skills and experience, pushing us lightyears ahead.
We are always expanding and we are looking for others to join us as Third Kinders.

What is it like to be a Third Kinder?

Our team is a diverse group of people. They are collaborative, high performers who embrace ideas and knowledge from everyone in the Third Kind family, with the aim of developing and inspiring ourselves and our games.
Work life balance and flexibility are very important to us and our team. We also actively encourage our teams to explore their creativity outside of work on their own projects.

Role Overview

You enjoy:

• Understanding our consumer needs and ensuring the designs developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment, managing the game mechanics, core loops and game systems that make our games more fun to play.
• Leading and managing Game Designers to deliver projects on time.
• High standards, responsible for delivering high-quality documentation with coherent and compelling visions of game features from you and your team.
• Working with our team to support the delivery of fresh and innovative ideas for games.
• Maintaining a close working relationship with the management team, producers, leads, directors and other teams to raise project quality.
• Mentoring and assisting your colleagues to support their personal development.
  

You Would
What we're looking for from a Third Kinder

• Lead and motivate a team that designs game systems, content and level design to craft an engaging player experience.
• Make useful contributions to our creative planning sessions, scrums, and retrospectives and help us drive the development of our projects and the team.
• Be naturally inquisitive, you keep up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and cascade according to support the development of your team.
• Collaborate and communicate well with internal teams and customers to realise a shared vision.
• Talk and write enthusiastically about game ideas, championing their potential.
• Have the motivation and passion to keep up to date with industry developments and bring efficiencies and increased quality, whilst growing your skill set.
• Show an ability to keep team members motivated and working efficiently and toward project goals.
  

Skills You Need

• 5+ years industry experience in game design positions.
• 2 + years experience leading a small team of designers.
• Strong, passionate communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to deliver fun gameplay features that keeps players wanting more.
• Ambition and motivation.
  

Experience With
Skills it would be great to have

• Unity, Unreal, or similar game engines.
• All stages of a project, from concept to launch.
• Modern console development.
  

If you think this is the role for you please send us your CV and an introductory email, which helps us to get to know you better. We aim to respond to your application within 2 working days.
Usually we will conduct a telephone interview, prior to any face to face or virtual interviews.