Creative Director - Games Studio

This is a Full Time Job

The Creative Director will imagine, develop, implement, and drive understanding of the project's design. You will collaborate with studio management, publishing partners, and project leads while ensuring that project requirements are met, and a great player experience is kept at the forefront. You will act as both a manager and a mentor, fostering a team culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and empowerment. You will strive to develop processes and solutions that help to support a sustainable work life for your team.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities
• Craft the game's design vision and rally the development team and external partners around the vision
• Collaborate with project leads and directors to balance priorities and set clear objectives for development
• Provide leadership and guidance to design team members to help them reach their optimum performance levels
• Manage performance within the team in a way that encourages innovation and creativity, while establishing and codifying best practices and process
• Work with all disciplines to ensure that game features and systems meet specifications and Boss Fight's high-quality bar
• Continuously drive understanding, alignment, and excitement for design features within the team and with external partners
• Continuously provide feedback to all stakeholders and team members in a constructive manner, with suggestions and solutions for improvement to process and project
• Serve as a player advocate on the team, drawing from experience, research, playtest data, and feedback to forge an outstanding player experience
• Be accountable for the project quality targets as well as the results achieved
• Manage shared library of resources including game design and process documentation
• Own the design of the next generation of major features for Boss Fight products
• Exemplify reliability, accountability, and professionalism in all work-related interactions
• Lead by example, creating a strong sense of purpose and community, promoting a culture of excellence and inclusivity, encouraging a sustainable work/life balance

Skills
and Abilities:
• Demonstrated fundamentals of leadership, including clear and proactive communication, exceptional mentoring and supervisory skills, and meeting moderation
• Able to manage multiple, competing tasks and be self-directed to meet responsibilities in a quickly evolving environment with little to no direction
• Ability to coordinate effectively drive the roadmap for the Design team
• Ability to coach, manage, mitigate, and prioritize through stressful situations for you and your team
• Excellent attention to detail and strong desire to iterate and improve on processes
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Comfortable interacting and presenting to all levels of the company, especially key stakeholders, and publishers
• Ability to review and create game design documentation including core game systems, game mechanics, interface design, and narrative content

Education and Experience

• 3 years directing projects and teams at the creative leadership level
• 10 years experience in game design
• Experience working on games with Product Management/Analytics to design systems and features that respond to real-world user data and player behaviors
• At least one full design cycle, from inception through live ops, on a high-profile F2P title in the role of either Design Director, Creative Director, or equivalent

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Our core hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm CST, which means you should be available for meetings etc. during this time.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Salary range description

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 $170,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.

Netflix has a unique culture and environment. Learn more here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.