Design Managers Required!

Job Reference: 15719
Short Skills:
Start Date/Length: Immediate/ Permanent
Salary: Internationally Competitive
Location: Cheng Du
Country: China
Description:

Game Design Manager

We are now looking for Design Managers for our client’s Chengdu and Shanghai studios. You will be working with the senior design manager to manage the design department. The design department manages over 40 designers (and growing) across 2 studios and several simultaneous projects.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the Executive Production team on setting up new projects

• Assign designers on projects, according to the project’s specifics

• Support producers to set up design process on their projects

• Support design leads all along the project to achieve quality and maintain good working conditions

• Review deliveries to clients and improve when necessary

• Review project’s quality and design team’s performance; report to the Production team

• Evaluate designers’ performances and give them personal objectives to improve their performance

• Organize training, best practices, instructions and other material to grow designers

• Collaborate with HR to recruit new designers

Requirements:

• At least 10 years in the Game Industry, in a design position

• All-around designer: has worked on systems, levels, with some experience in UI

• Basic art and code knowledge is a plus

• Must have shipped at least 2 titles as a lead designer

• Strong creative skills, can generate efficient ideas and communicate them

• Excellent communication skills, can listen, filter, summarize and explain to persons of various experience levels and cultures

• Strong organization skills, in particular time management

• Excellent leadership, team building and mentoring skills necessary

• Genuine interest in Human Relations responsibilities and skills & in people’s career growth

• International experience a plus

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