Senior Designer (Craft Lead) - Creative Play

As a a craft lead on our creative play team you will enable and guide all the people within the craft, as well as contributing via day-to-day hands-on work on the project. This craft focuses on the in world experience - team consisting of designers, technical artists and gameplay engineers.

To thrive here you are an avid problem solver. You are excellent at sharing learnings with others, as well as gathering ideas from the team and synthesizing shared problems and creating and executing solutions.

You are a mentor at heart - with leadership experience focused on collaboration, listening, and growth. You’ve worked on a range of creative projects within games and other technical spaces, and can draw on a range of lessons learned.

In this role you will collaborate closely with the rest of the team and the studio. You will support peers all around the world - and your ultimate goal is make sure those team members are safe, included and moving forward.

Example of responsibilities

- Having regular 1:1s, make sure people feel seen and listened to
- Recruiting and onboarding new colleagues
- Long-term career development of colleagues, coaching and salary revision
- Be a part of the Embark Manager forum - together drive change!
- Hands on work within the project, regular use of and contribution to the project
- Help out driving user facing focus in product roadmap
- Documentation, communication and following up.


We would love if you have

- A creative and curious mind passionate about creative experiences
- Leadership experience from complex projects, and remote teams
- Proven track record of supporting, guiding and challenging team members as a leader
- Significant product experience - likely in game design, UX, or creative leadership.
- Project work with a lot of UGC, Modding, or direct user creative contribution
- Professional English communication skills.


At Embark we offer competitive salaries, passionate colleagues to share knowledge with and much more, but most of all we invite you to take part of a journey into the unknown, to build creative, surprising and beautiful experiences together.

We welcome game makers of all sex, class, colour, age, gender identity, education, religion, opinion, culture, nation of origin, language, sexual orientation, shape, size, and ability.

Did we leave anyone out? Well, we welcome you, too! We think that the gaming industry is made better when everyone has a seat at the table.

Be yourself at Embark and make games while doing so. Please apply with confidence. We can’t wait to hear from you (in English)!

If this role doesn't quite match what you're looking for, feel free to apply to us via our " Open Application. (https://www.embark-studios.com/jobs/278181-game-maker-open-application)"