Lead Designer - (Chicago, IL)

Hothead Games is mobile game development studio focused on free-to-play for iOS and Android devices. Millions of people play our games and this generates large amounts of data. Transforming this data to make it both meaningful and actionable is a key priority at Hothead. You thrive on small teams and have a generalist set of design skills making you proficient in areas ranging from documentation, meeting facilitation, gameplay and economy tuning and review structures. You understand the importance of vision, making timely decisions and understand that the best ideas come from gathering many sources and strong collaboration. What You'll Do: • Develop and shape game systems and mechanics and get buy-in from the team. • Write high-quality game design documents that contain strong compulsion loops and clearly communicate concepts and qualifications to the team. • Design and create visual graphic mock-ups and wire-framed screens for in-game menus and HUD elements for optimal user background.