What are the responsibilities and job description for the Design Manager position at Eleventh Hour Games?
What is your role?
As a Design Manager for Eleventh Hour Games, you will develop and implement successful design strategies by outlining how the design team will create the project’s deliverables.
This position will require a candidate with deep understanding of ARPGs, specifically adapting to Last Epoch. This role is ideal for someone who craves ownership and has strong communication skills, both written and verbal. The role requires excellent communication skills and autonomy as you will be working with a fully remote team.
Qualifications
- 5 years of industry experience in a leadership role, 3 years experience in Game Design focused role(s)
- Experience with management practices, including team member feedback and evaluation processes
- Professional experience and passion for leading teams and growing skills/mentoring individuals
- Professional experience with project management software (Clickup)
- Strong understanding of the Systems-based Action RPG Genre
Pluses
- Demonstratable working experience with Unity or Game Engines, Figma (or other visual tools)
- Strong understanding of Last Epoch gained through extensive playtime
Responsibilities
- Leading your team to define development timeframes, dependencies, and areas of risk to be considered in project planning.
- Manage the design team through modeling, coaching, and caring to grow their skills and deliver maximum impact.
- Lead direction of the Design team by collaborating closely with game developers, producers, artists, and designers to fully comprehend and specify game features and system needs.
- Collaborate effectively with the producers, engineers, artists, and other key studio leads to determine project design specifications, system mechanics, and ensure successful product implementation and execution.
- Work with the Design Producer to create and maintain design documentation.
- Work closely with World and Design Manager to ensure game meets established art and design goal
- Contribute innovative and creative design ideas to systems and the game world.
- Utilize many types of feedback, including from the team, playtests, data analysis, and user research feedback to create clear actionable items that improve products and design processes.
- Champion best practices and standards across projects.
Why Eleventh Hour Games?
EHG is a fast growing Indie Studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge epic games. Epic games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our debut title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!
- Flexible fully remote working arrangements
- Team focused environment, including casual game nights
- 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 5 floating holidays at the start of each year (increased with company tenure)
- 90% paid health coverage premiums for U.S. based employees dependents
- Dental, Vision for U.S. based employees dependents
- 401K for U.S. based employees
