Nerd Ninjas is a fully remote, fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of creative professionals that work hard and play hard. We’re creating fun and interesting projects across VR, AR, mobile, and desktop.
We seek an experienced Game Designer and Live Ops QA person to play a crucial role in shaping the future of a title known all over the world. You’ll collaborate with a talented team of developers, artists, and other game designers to conceive, design, and implement engaging and innovative features that captivate a global player community. This is a unique opportunity to leave your mark on a game that has redefined the boundaries of mobile AR gaming.
Benefits
- Work on one of the top-grossing mobile games of all time.
- Spend time with game designers to learn how live events are thought about and created.
- Our unique culture is fun, healthy, and anti-drama (you'll love it!).
- Competitive salary.
- 100% paid Medical, Dental, & Vision.
- Flexible schedule.
- Work fully remote in the Pacific Time Zone.
- Travel to Spokane, WA twice a year for very fun and memorable team-building retreats.
Responsibilities
- Use admin tools to set up and execute in-game promotions and events.
- Compile event and feature design specs.
- Rigorous playtesting for live events.
- Resolve errors for events before they go live.
- Set up event experiments with game designers.
- Work with engineers to improve the process of setting up future events.
- Play games (internal and external) in order to suggest ideas to the game team.
Requirements
- Genuine love and passion for video games!
- Strong collaborative spirit.
- Solid understanding of Free-to-Play and geo mobile gaming.
- 4+ years of work experience in the video game industry, especially game design, QA, or live ops.
- Good knowledge/intuition for player motivations in order to keep the audience engaged and improve game features.
- Highly focused attention to detail and organization.
- Extremely proficient with spreadsheets.
- Self-motivated go-getter.
- Ability to work remotely during core team hours, M-F: 9:00am - 5pm Pacific Time.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication.
- Must be a US resident.
Pluses
- Been a part of multiple successful title launches or ongoing support.
- Proficiency with additional design tools (Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, etc)
- Strong ability to understand, breakdown, and create game specs, including seasonal, live ops event specs.
- Experience working on a live game, operated as a service.
- Basic understanding of how the business and economics of mobile games works.
- Experience with Jira (or other task/bug tracking software).
- Experience with Unity3D (or Unreal).
- Knowledge of F2P (free to play) methodologies.
- Wide general knowledge of gaming systems, state-of-the-art genre conventions.
- Live in or around Spokane, WA or the greater Pacific Northwest.