Description
As a Lead Game Designer at Ubisoft, you will define, structure, and drive the overall game design vision in collaboration with the Game Director, Creative Director, and Production.
You will lead, mentor, and support a team of designers, fostering growth, ownership, and high-quality output.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and managing the design process, including planning, prioritization, and delivery of features and systems
- Designing and overseeing gameplay systems, mechanics, and player progression
- Aligning design direction across disciplines and communicating vision, decisions, and constraints clearly to stakeholders
- Driving a data-informed, KPI-oriented design approach for a live environment
- Identifying, prototyping, and iterating on key features based on playtests, player feedback, and data insights
- Defining and articulating a clear vision for tools, pipelines, and workflows to enhance team efficiency
- Ensuring timely delivery aligned with project goals, scope, and quality expectations
- Developing and maintaining clear and actionable design documentation
- Supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance evaluation, and career development of team members
Requirements:
- Proven experience in game design, including experience on at least one shipped AAA or AA title
- Proven experience in a leadership role (Lead or Associate Lead Designer)
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams across the full production cycle
- Familiarity with live production environments and iterative development processes
- Strong expertise in game systems design, balancing, and player progression
- Broad understanding of gameplay design across multiple systems
- Proficiency with game development tools (e.g., Jira, Hansoft, Perforce)
- Experience working with Anvil Engine and its toolset
- Experience with visual scripting and/or data-driven design approaches
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data to inform design decisions
Nice to have:
- Experience contributing to multiple projects or different phases of production
- Familiarity with large-scale game systems and content pipelines
- Experience improving team workflows, tools, or production efficiency
- Active interest in games and game design trends
We offer:
- An international, professional, collaborative, modern, and creative environment
- Attractive remuneration package
- Performance rewards
- Creative & endless fun projects
- Ubisoft Connect account with access to all Ubisoft titles on PC
- Premium healthcare insurance
- UBIVERSARY for your working milestones
- Team building, Lunar New year Celebration, Projects celebration
- Beers and treats every Friday
- Staff clubs
- Premium gym club access
- Free in-house entertainment facilities