Lead Game Designer

Ubisoft Barcelona Mobile brings together dedicated and experienced professionals that are focused on crafting high-quality F2P games for mobile.

As a Lead Game Designer, you will define, structure, and drive the overall game design vision in collaboration with the game core team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and support a team of designers, fostering growth, ownership, knowledge sharing and uphold high-quality design standards.
• Own and manage the design process, including planning, prioritization, and delivery of features and systems.
• Balance creative goals with production constraints to support reliable planning and delivery.
• Design and oversee gameplay systems, economy and monetization, mechanics, and player progression, ensuring coherence and consistency across the game.
• Align design direction across disciplines and communicate vision, decisions, and constraints clearly to stakeholders.
• Drive a data-informed, KPI-oriented design approach for a live-f2p environment, leveraging player metrics, business goals and analytics to guide decisions and improvements.
• Identify, prototype, and iterate on key features based on playtests, player base and game support feedback, and data insights.
• Define and articulate a clear vision for tools, pipelines, and workflows to enhance team efficiency, scalability, and delivery quality, and long-term project sustainability.
• Ensure timely delivery aligned with project goals, scope, and quality expectations.
• Develop and maintain clear and actionable design documentation.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance evaluation, and career development of team members.
• Create a fun, engaging and outstanding player experience.

Qualifications:

• Fluent English is mandatory.
• Previous proven experience as Senior or Lead Game Designer on F2P, with at least 1 full release cycle on Mobile/F2P including LiveOps.
• Extensive knowledge of F2P mobile gaming industry, staying up to date on trends, game genres, key competitors and best practices.
• Proficient in all aspects of game design such as UX, level design, system design, with a strong acumen on social multiplayer design, economic design, pacing & monetization strategies for F2P games.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and manage team workload effectively.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data to inform design decisions.
• Excellent documentation skills to clearly communicate design intent and ensure team alignment.
• Solid understanding of production pipelines, workflows, and development methodologies.
• Capable of providing inspiring creative leadership.
• Skillful at complex Excel spreadsheets.
• Ability to take direction and feedback.
• Be a team player: we use agile development methods, where the team members are in permanent contact.

Benefits:

• Ticket Restaurant: 220€ per month, and a flexible compensation plan.
• Flexible working hours: 40-hour workweek with start times between 8 AM and 10 AM.
• Reduced schedule in July and August, Easter, Christmas holidays, and special days.
• Personal Matters Hours: 24 hours paid for by Ubisoft.
• Holidays: 25 days per year + 1 day on your Ubi-Birthday.
• Health insurance with Cigna.
• Life Insurance with AXA.
• Office Gym.
• Mobile Device Grant of 400 EUR.
• Language training for English, Spanish, and French.
• Professional development training & programs.