Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.
Design Director Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Design Director to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Achieving high client satisfaction;
- Clients Appointed as primary client contact for new and existing projects;
- Guiding and influencing workflow;
- Articulate the context of strategic design work within client’s business with an understanding of business strategies and current market contexts;
- Actively inputting on design strategy process, including learning our client’s strategic tools;
- Leading briefings and design critiques;
- Traveling to key business meetings when required, including international travel;
- Challenging senior creative team members with innovative and inspiring thinking;
- Selecting creative team members and allocating them against projects;
- Working in collaboration with client service peers;
- Inputting and building thought processes for presentations;
- Interviewing new creative recruits;
- Understand how design decisions impact across other disciplines;
- Oversee the creative process;
- Build confidence, manage expectations and gain buy-in & trust from external partners.
Requirements:
- An exceptional portfolio showcasing innovative thinking and design solutions;
- Proven track record partnering with multiple disciplines on projects and practices;
- Proven experience building, managing, and sustaining successful teams;
- Graduate degree in Visual or Interaction Design, Product Design, Human Factors, HCI, or equivalent professional experience;
- Accurate and on time completion of time sheets;
- Understands how art and design intersect to create special and memorable experiences;
- Ability to confidently talk about free-to-play game design and ‘sell’ a creative vision both internally and externally;
- Ensure that administration, company protocol and standards are maintained;
- Take pride in your environment – i.e. creating a tidy and inspiring space to work within;
- Develop and display a thorough knowledge of digital software required in your role;
- Experience working with and successfully managing external stakeholders;
- Confident in line managing teams of designers, including reviewing work, probations, appraisals, disciplinary action, etc;
- A strong back-catalogue of previous free-to-play titles, proving the direct impact of design direction and decisions on previous projects;
- Collective responsibility; they are a team, so think proactively and do not assume someone else has it covered;
- Embody the three core values of the organisation.