# Lead Game Designer

**Company**: Ubisoft
**Location**: Barcelona, CT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Game Development
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

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## Skills

### Required
- game design
- F2P mobile gaming
- UX
- level design
- system design
- monetization strategies
- data analysis
- Excel

### Nice to have
- Prior experience in leading a team
- Videogames design degree or equivalent
- Spanish
- Catalan

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