Technical Game Designer, Amazon Games

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DESCRIPTION :

Amazon Games is looking for a Technical Game Designer to partner with us as we build exciting new casual games with a multiplayer component. You will help build on an entirely new category for gaming and should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects. In this role, you'll lead thinking on what kind of great games will be best for all kinds of casual game players. You will assess content, help developers design for Amazon customers, and invent new game benefits.

The opportunity to delight millions of gamers is massive, but it's also an ambiguous challenge. You will leverage your game design knowledge to help define and prioritize content for Amazon customers who play games. You'll work with world-class third-party game developers to assess and design great exclusive content. You thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and will collaborate with engineering, marketing, and other stakeholders to resolve ambiguity and balance competing priorities.

Key job responsibilities

• Be part of a multi-disciplinary brain trust and work closely with external developers to ideate, build, and launch great original games
• Provide compelling vision to develop inventive new game ideas
• Ability to work on multiple concurrent projects and interface with all levels within the organization with candor and respect
• Be able to take the high strategic view as well as dive deep and execute
• Work directly with marketing and business development partners to evaluate potential games against intended audience
• Remain up to date with products and services across the game industry, and also within Amazon, Twitch, and Amazon Game Studios
• Quickly prototype design ideas and iterate through playtesting and player feedback
• Work with developers to ensure your content and features are delivered at the highest quality
• Work with engineers and artists to refine our workflows and improve our tooling

About the team

Amazon Luna is a cloud gaming service that makes it easy for anyone to play high-quality games on the devices they already own-including Fire TV and tablet devices, smartphones, tablets, web browsers, select smart televisions from LG and Samsung, and more with no need to purchase new gaming consoles or equipment. Luna brings more than 50 games to Prime members at no additional cost, including GameNight, an evolving collection of more than 25 approachable, local multiplayer games designed to bring friends and family together in the living room. To play GameNight titles, simply scan a QR code on your TV and your smartphone becomes your controller. With simple and responsive touchscreen inputs and support for multiple local players, GameNight offers and easy and approachable way to play whether you're an experienced gamer of a casual fan.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,600 / year in our lowest geographic market up to $205,000 / year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits. For more information,

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