As the Game Director at Liminal you will creatively shape the future of UGC by driving the design direction of the product and organization. You will be critical to making the product vision a reality and unlocking performance from our talented team of developers.

At Liminal, we believe that good ideas can come from anywhere. You will join a team of other low-ego developers eager to learn from your experiences and will partner across disciplines in an environment where engineers and artists will be enthusiastic about your creative influence on every aspect of the product.

Responsibilities

• Vision.
  • Direct the overall vision for Liminal’s product and player experience. Keep the overarching product vision alive as it takes shape through the efforts of many contributors and stakeholders.
  • Synthesize, maintain, and articulate Liminal’s design principles in order to empower each team member to make autonomous decisions consistent with our design philosophy.
  • Drive the design and implementation of key features while synthesizing ideas from across the team.
• Strategy.
  • Drive Liminal’s overall creative strategy.
  • Identify and prioritize design challenges and formulate strategy in partnership with the rest of Liminal leadership.
• Leadership.
  • Shape the design organization at Liminal by owning staffing needs, leading hiring panels, debriefings, and onboarding.
  • Drive excellence across design by defining and iterating on design processes.
  • Support a culture of growth by managing and mentoring design staff to their full potential.
• Craft.
  • Innovate in designing a UGC experience for every aspect of an action-adventure game: story, game design, character, environment, and more.
  • Maintain a high quality bar for all aspects of product design.
  • Provide constructive feedback and high-level direction to designers, engineers, artists, and other developers.
• Teamwide Buff.
  • Contribute to an environment that fosters innovation and helps others take smart risks, learn from failures, and own the outcomes.
  • Ensure that results do not come at the expense of long-term growth, retention, or psychological safety at the company.
  • Model the Liminal values and support teammates in doing the same.

Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on game design experience.
• 3+ years experience leading design teams.
• Demonstrated portfolio of player-facing design work in shipped products.
• Track record of leading a game from experimental concept to launch.
• Demonstrated record of integrating cutting-edge and transformational technologies into innovative game or product designs.
• Experience managing designers at various career stages and with diverse specializations.
• Deep experience with rapid prototyping strategy (problem decomposition and prototyping scoping) and execution (design and evaluation).
• Keen eye for elegance in design. You can synthesize ambitious and potentially sprawling feature visions and distill them into minimal, practical, and user-friendly designs. Ability to balance the details with the big picture.
• Ability to clearly explain and document ideas.
• Excellent interdisciplinary communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills.
• Keen ability to elicit and perceive the talents, interests, and growth potential of individual contributors and then apply this information towards staffing and strategy.
• Comfort with navigating ambiguity and articulating and evangelizing effective strategies for surmounting design challenges.
• Top-notch interaction design skills. You are excited about transforming complex and difficult experiences into simple, fun, and easy-to-use toys.
• Fluency with action-adventure game design conventions.
• Self Aware: Self-awareness and a willingness to connect with others with empathy
• Feedback Oriented: Proactively ask for feedback from others to develop awareness about strengths, and act on development areas
• Growth Oriented: Invests time in being a better designer and leader.
• Bonus: Proven leadership in designing and shipping player-facing authorial/UGC tools.
• Bonus: Experience integrating cutting-edge and transformational technologies into innovative game or product designs.