Game Director in Utrecht

Overview

We’re looking for a highly collaborative, passionate, and skilled Game Director that can support our content creation teams in our studio in Utrecht.

Our projects are a collaboration between multiple studios, driven from our partner studio in the US. The Game Director will work together with stake-holders at our partner studios as well as in partnership with the Art Director in-house, to create and guide the consistency in game direction of the project.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the other stakeholders in our partner studios to ensure the consistency of the projects overall game design.
• Take responsibility of the game direction within our studio and shepherd its implementation across the entire development process.
• Collaborate with the Art Director to understand the art direction and effectively convey it in the overall game direction.
• Collaborate with our design lead to help outline and define the overall game direction into gameplay elements.

Essential Requirements:

• You have at least 9 years of previous experience in the games industry or a related industry
• Significant experience with game design.
• You have a pragmatic, hands-on problem-solving mentality.
• You work well in an environment with deadlines and milestones.
• Ability to make critical decisions under high pressure.
• Perfect knowledge of spoken and written English.
• Understanding of best practices for creating high quality gameplay experiences.
• Highly skilled in analyzing and prioritizing accordingly.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Maintains reliable data integrity.
• Maintains and displays a “can do” attitude.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Must be ethical and maintain confidentiality.
• Self-motivated and ambitious.
• Must be able to work under limited supervision.
• Strong ability to collaborate and influence across multiple disciplines.
• Demonstrable leadership abilities.
• Excellent creative mind.
• Open-mindedness and ability to create consensus.

Plusses:

• (Native) Dutch speaker.