Game Designer

About Star Stable Entertainment

Star Stable Entertainment was founded in 2011, sparked by a desire for a game that could make a difference. Although half of gamers are girls and women, they were under-represented in the gaming industry, both as characters and creators. We dreamed of an epic online world where tween and teen girls could share an amazing experience. And we wanted to challenge how things were done in a male-dominated industry.

The result was Star Stable Online, which has gone on to become the world’s number one horse game with over 21 million registered users across 180 countries. We’re thrilled to welcome fun-loving players to the island of Jorvik, with its breathtaking scenery, beautiful horses, and magical quests. And we’re proud to see each player's special bond with their four-legged friends and the passionate community of Star Stable players.

As of 2022, our company has 200+ employees with a female to male ratio of 54/46, unheard of in the gaming industry. Our world has expanded into the Star Stable Universe and includes books, music, animated series, and mobile apps. And we continue to champion diverse characters and narratives, encouraging our audience to be their true selves. It’s wonderful to see our dream resonate with so many players around the world, and we can’t wait to share more stories and experiences with them!

The Position

Your role is to design experiences for our game in the form of new features, systems, content or underlying design architecture. As a game designer you need to collaborate with multiple teams and disciplines and coordinate work to ensure cohesive design and implementation.

You're responsible for

- Conceptualising, prototyping, testing and implementing gameplay systems/features independently and in line with the design vision for our game.

- Facilitating design processes and organisation in the projects you work with.

- Collecting feedback from peers, players and stakeholders, and iterating on your designs based on these insights.

- Actively working together with designers and other disciplines to improve the quality of our game, our design pipelines and ways of working.

- Supporting decision making within your team/domain and guiding your peers toward our shared goals.

- Actively working together with designers and other disciplines to improve the quality of our game, our design pipelines and ways of working.

To thrive in this role, we believe that

- You have 5+ years of experience working as a game designer.

- You have significant experience working with game design for live games.

- You have expertise in commercial and proprietary game engines, tools and technical pipelines.

- You have an expert understanding of game loops, systems and their impact on the player experience.

- You have the ability to use data to qualitatively inform design decisions.

- You’re user-focused, curious and solutions-oriented.

- You posses a strong understanding of player behaviour and how to design for different types of users.

- You've got excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

- You know how to effectively document and convey ideas, complex concepts and design visions.

- You have a strong collaborative mindset and know how to work efficiently in an agile team environment.

Interested? This is what we can offer you:

- Flexible working opportunities.

- We’re more than 50% female-identifying! #YES to #WomenInTech!

- We’re known to throw good parties from time to time.

- We may be a big group, but we’re a tight-knit team! A diverse team of friendly, fun, and supportive co-workers from 20 different countries!

- 30 Vacation Days.

- ITP1 Insurance plan.

- Parental pay top up to 90%

Apply!

At Star Stable Entertainment, you will be a part of diverse culture with a no-crunch policy, a prioritised work-life balance, and a workforce eager to test and try new things! We are on an adventure to scale our unique impact in the world with new franchises across desktop/mobile, a long-form animation, and a licensing program all currently in development.

If you are excited about making a difference and being part of an exciting journey then we would love to hear from you!