Netflix Lead Game Designer Studio 

United States, California, Los Angeles 

185619285

At Night School designers invent new ways to experience interactive stories. Our studio’s goal is to create world-class narrative games, and that all begins with a strong, actionable design.

In our studio, designers bridge innovative gameplay with our ability to tell amazing stories. This involves working closely with narrative, writing, art, and engineering to bring these ideas to life. This role will require a deep understanding of not only high-level design principles; but of strong implementation, cinematic techniques, and storytelling integration. As a Lead Designer, you work with the Game Director to define a game’s design vision, take ownership over the design process for the game, and get your hands dirty with content implementation during production.

Responsibilities Include

• Strong collaboration with cross-discipline game and studio leadership

• Partnering closely with Narrative to create best-in-class story rich designs

• Owning various level designs all the way from greybox to final

• Planning, writing, and executing on project goals for the design team

• Creating and maintaining design documentation

Skills & Requirements

• 10+ years of game design work with Lead experience highly preferred

• 3+ shipped games as a hands-on game designer

• Experience implementing gameplay content using proprietary and industry-standard tools

• Strong game design and communication skills

• Strong Unity skills and fluency

• Familiarity with the language of cinematic storytelling

• Familiarity with programming and logic concepts

About You

• Passionate about storytelling, video games, and video game development.

• Enthusiastic about innovation and exploring groundbreaking design ideas to tell stories in new ways within games.

• Strengths include being goal-oriented, conscientious, tenacious, thoughtful, meticulous, organized, and being both a great listener and communicator.

• Self-starter that works well autonomously and willing to find solutions, be curious, and ask questions when needed.

• Guides a team to achieve their goals from a “bottom up” rather than “top down” management approach.

• Filters team creative ideas, ambitions, and goals through the lens of strategy and pragmatic next steps.

• Proficient at interpersonal communication, negotiation, and diplomacy.

• Receptive to and skilled at giving and receiving critique and feedback.

• Lifelong learner who wants to bring experience and knowledge to the project and team every day.

Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $90,000 - $600,000.