Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
We are looking for a talented Senior Lighting Artist to join our team on a very ambitious project. The ideal candidate should have extensive full-time experience dealing with lighting setups, creating lighting adapted to a set of different contexts and locations, building the atmosphere and mood of a variety of spaces in Unreal Engine.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- As a Senior Lighting Artist, you will be responsible for taking care of the visual coherence of lighting throughout the whole project, ensuring lighting is optimal and technically correct.
- You will be cooperating in the development of technology related to lighting in a big open world game.
- Taking part in creating ideas and solutions for a wide range of locations.
- Working with state-of-the-art lighting systems and techniques, shaders and post-processing effects in dynamic and extense environments.
YOUR PROFILE:
- 5+ years of experience within the Lighting Art discipline with at least 2+ years of experience as a Lighting Artist in game development using Unreal Engine.
- Shipped at least 2 games in Lighting Art role; preferably full cycle on a ‘AAA’ console or PC title.
- Proven experience in creating lighting art for different kinds of locations.
- A solid understanding in game engines, lighting systems and techniques.
- Knowledge in Unreal Engine’s shaders and material development.
- Experience in lighting optimizations, from profiling to implementation.
- Outstanding artistic skills, with a good understanding of color and composition.
- Relentless proactivity in reference materials analysis from the real world and video games.
- Awesome communication skills -in English-, across all disciplines.
- A passion for video games.
- Establish direct and reflected lighting, shadows, and compositing for different moods.
- Design and implement lighting for video game environments.
- A great artistic eye for detail, composition and cinematography.
- Develop innovative strategies and techniques to maximize the visual lighting quality of our games whilst maintaining performance.
- Keep the artistic style consistent with a defined visual style in video games.
- Collaborate with the tech-art team to develop lighting related blueprints and other lighting effects, to create dynamic lighting gameplay elements.
- Assist in developing an efficient pipeline for lighting.
- Work with the leads and other art team members to ensure consistent visual quality.
- Knowledge of platform strengths and limitations.
- Excellent communication skills.
Desirable pluses:
- Experience in lighting big open-world games.
- Background in a wide variety of platforms like PC, VR and WebGL games.
- Working knowledge with RayTracing and Lumen for Unreal Engine.
- Skills in Technical Lighting Art (like light optimizations).
- Knowledge in Shader and Materials development.
WE OFFER:
- Permanently remote position
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
We are looking for a talented Senior Technical Artist Generalist to join our team on a very ambitious project. The ideal candidate should have extensive full-time experience with advanced shaders and material development, VFXs, asset integration, and graphics optimizations in Unreal Engine.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- As a Senior Technical Artist Generalist, you will be joining and supporting a talented team of technical artists focused on complex shaders and materials development, high-quality asset imports and optimizations, state-of-the-art lighting system optimizations, VFX implementations, profiling and graphics optimizations within a gaming title.
- Also, mentor other technical artists to support their growth, manage CI/CD pipeline for artists, and write technical documentation. In short, you will play an important role in the technical art field of a project.
- Enforce technological changes in order to improve the workflows and pipelines.
YOUR PROFILE:
- An accomplished technical artist with 5+ years of experience within the technical art discipline with 1+ years of experience as a Senior Technical Artist in game development using Unreal.
- Shipped at least 2 games in a Technical Art role; preferably full cycle on a ‘AAA’ console or PC title.
- Experience in 3D graphics software such as 3DS Max, Maya, etc. ideally on an advanced scripting level.
- A solid understanding in game engines, pipelines, graphics APIs and processes.
- Advanced knowledge in Unreal Engine’s shaders and material development.
- Experience in graphics optimizations, from profiling to implementation.
- A solid artistic and technical knowledge in VFX.
- Awesome communication skills -in English-, across all disciplines.
- Amazing technical insight; from asset creation in 3D software to in-engine optimizations.
- A passion for video games.
- Relentless proactivity in finding problems and their solutions.
- Passion for problem-solving, particularly as it pertains to debugging technical issues.
- Analyze and improve game performance.
- Deep understanding of the rendering process.
- Knowledge of platform strengths and limitations.
- Experience writing and debugging shaders.
- Good knowledge of multiple art and animation pipelines.
- Technical proficiency in areas of 2D and 3D art.
- Knowledge of art creation pipelines, asset exporting, and process automation workflows.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Strong reporting and documentation skills.
Desirable pluses:
- Experience in developing big open-world games.
- Background in a wide variety of platforms like PC, VR and WebGL games.
- Working knowledge of Houdini, tool creation for artists and designers.
- Scripting skills in Python, C++, C# and/or MaxScript.
- Modeling and texturing abilities/experience.
- Deep understanding of HLSL and/or GLSL shading languages.
WE OFFER:
- Permanently remote position
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment, and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 13 countries and expertise in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX, and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
We are looking for a talented Senior Pipeline & Tools Technical Artist to join and support our team on a very ambitious project. The ideal candidate should have extensive full-time experience in building bridges between artists and engineers and in doing so, maintain a close relationship with many disciplines to drive both existing and future tech and tools, especially in Unreal Engine.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- You will be responsible for maintaining and improving pipelines and workflows in order for the art teams to work effectively, efficiently and comfortably.
- Also, mentor other technical artists to support their growth, manage CI/CD pipeline for artists, and write technical documentation. In short, you will play an important role in the technical art field of a project.
- Hands-on scripting and technical tools pipeline development to refine and improve the team’s workflow.
- Optimizing pipelines between our artist publishing tools, asset databases, and our version control backend. Continually build and troubleshoot the artist data (e.g. assets, props, textures, materials, characters, etc.) and the pipeline that produces it.
- Connecting various DCCs/tools/systems into cohesive pipelines from content creation through to the game (mainly for Art and Animation teams).
- Contribute to the development of our core proprietary automation frameworks to allow for greater scalability as our project/pipeline needs continue to expand.
- Maintaining existing pipelines and automation processes for on-going development work on released projects.
- Creating user interfaces (Desktop and Web) to interact with and manage our Automation Systems.
- Evaluating and breaking down existing manual processes different teams have – work with them to streamline and automate these processes with minimal downtime.
- Designing, implementing and iterating on services to be consumed within and outside of Technical Art departments.
- Planning and rolling out improvements to our Technical Art development processes – introducing new patterns of working.
- Create tools/scripts to support production/tracking.
- Collaborate with a team of other technical artists, support art teams directly, and work closely with engineers.
- Design, develop and implement tools to manage art assets in the game engine, automate production software tracking and data, and ensure that assets are optimized.
- You will support artists and resolve technical issues as they arise during production, and guide on best practices to ensure consistency in process and data flow between departments and teams.
- Be part of a dedicated team of tech artists to build and enhance a core pipeline for Art and our Animation teams.
- Support Art and Animation throughout the production process and remove potential technical problems.
- Automate and optimize inefficient workflows and processes.
- Develop tools and systems across departments and serve as the liaison between art and engineering.
- Collaborate with engineers on technical design and workflow solutions.
YOUR PROFILE:
- At least 5+ years of experience as a technical artist on a shipped AAA title.
- Deep understanding of Unreal Engine.
- Experience in writing tools, scripts, and pipeline development, ideally for video games.
- Mastery with scripting languages like Python and a working knowledge of Maya and/or other 3d content creation applications.
- Overall knowledge of the 3d content creation process and pipeline.
- Strong coding/scripting skills with OOP knowledge.
- Experience using source control software (i.e. Perforce, Plastic, Git) and working on a code base collaboratively.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think outside the box.
- Ability to design and execute long term work on complex pipelines and tools.
- Comfortable coding in modern IDEs and debugging.
- Understanding of using DCC packages for authoring game Art and/or Animation.
- Strong communication, self-management, and organizational skills.
- Professional experience working in a large team spread across multiple locations and timezones.
- Ability to work within a schedule and deliver effectively to deadlines.
- Knowledge of art creation pipelines, asset exporting, and process automation workflows
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate between technical and artistic language
- Strong reporting and documentation skills
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to new technological changes as per project need
Desirable pluses:
- Experience in developing big open-world games and sandbox tools
- Background in a wide variety of platforms like PC, VR and WebGL games
- Working knowledge of Houdini, tool creation for artists and designers
- Scripting skills in Python, C++, C# and/or MaxScript
- Experience setting up CI/CD systems (GitLab, Jenkins or similar)
WE OFFER:
- Permanently remote position
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide.
- Career growth and development.
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
We are looking for a talented Technical UI Artist to collaborate with a team of UI/UX Designers, Artists, Game Designers and Developers, to create and develop awesome UI content for an ambitious project in Unreal Engine.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge in UI principles, good understanding in logical UI flows, experience in video games UI interfaces development, UI assets import and optimization, and UI animation and motion graphics.
- In short, as a Technical UI Artist, you will be in charge of developing cool features and implementing awesome seamless and immersive user interfaces.
YOUR PROFILE:
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical UI Artist in video games development using Unreal
- Shipped at least 1 game as a Technical UI Artist; preferably full cycle on a ‘AAA’ console or PC title.
- A solid understanding in Unreal Engine’s UI pipeline, tools and techniques
- Experience in asset optimizations, from implementation to profiling
- A solid artistic and technical working knowledge in UI development
- Able to develop UI solutions while following creative and artistic direction
- Motivated to solve problems and ability to think both artistically and technically, considering accessibility and optimization issues
- Awesome communication skills -in English-
- Relentless proactivity in finding problems and their solutions
- A passion for video games
- Deep familiarity, experience, and knowledge using Unreal Engine
- Knowledge of UI layout development and UI asset optimization
- Experience in features implementation, working with a team of artists and developers to plan, estimate, implement and iterate them
- Creativity to provide ideas and feedback in regard to UI tasks.
- Good understanding about UI best practices, workflows and pipelines
- Expertise in UI screen implementation, animations and transitions
- Ability to adapt to new technologies and state-of-the-art techniques.
- Strong collaborative nature within a multidisciplinary team of artists, developers and directors
- Capable to provide a bridge between artists, designers and engineers
Desirable pluses:
- Skills with UI Visual Effects implementation and/or development
- Experience in developing big open-world games
- Knowledge in Visual Scripting and/or Blueprint development
- Skills in UI Shader development using Unreal Engine Materials
- Working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and/or After Effects
- Experience in Agile methodologies
WE OFFER:
- Permanently remote position.
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects.
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide.
- Career growth and development.
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities.
- Flexible working hours.
- An inclusive culture and open communication.
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
We are seeking a passionate Senior 3D Animator to help deliver fantastic gameplay experiences. You will collaborate with the development team to bring our iconic characters to life. The ideal candidate is passionate about games and demonstrates an explicit knowledge of animation principles through their work. Join us, where the goal is just to make great games.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- Work closely with the Lead Animator and team to create industry-leading appealing animation and immersive, memorable, and seamless gameplay experiences
- Give characters unique personalities that embody the artistic and gameplay style and vision of the project
- Constantly push the animation quality to a higher level
- Collaborate with character and tech art teams during all character creation phases
- Collaborate and iterate quickly with designers and programmers from prototype to final
- Work in engine creating, implementing, tuning, and regularly testing animation assets with attention to detail
- Organize complicated sets of animation data and assets
- Help establish and refine animation pipeline and tools
- Coordinate with all departments to achieve project goals
YOUR PROFILE:
- Strong understanding of animation principles
- Experience animating humanoid characters and creatures
- Experience with animation systems in Unity.
- Creative problem-solving at all stages of development
- Strong communication skills, a team player, and a positive attitude
- Able to provide objective feedback and take direction well
- Strong work ethic and self-motivated, able to maintain the high quality of in-game animation and consistent progress without constant supervision
Desirable Pluses:
- 3-7 years of experience as a 3D animator in the game industry
- Expert with Maya or similar package
- Working knowledge of modelling, skinning, and rigging for games and how it pertains to animation
- Familiarity with development tools such as Perforce, JIRA, and Confluence
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
Magic Media is currently seeking a Senior Systems Designer that can perform at a wide variety of game genres, platforms and target audiences and who is able to execute a game’s vision and bolster its systems through skillful and thorough Systems Design.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- Work on multiple projects in a fast-paced international environment.
- Ability to create effective game systems that fit our client’s vision and provide solutions that match industry standards
- Create clean and structured sheets that make the necessary values easily available to developers and fellow designers
- Design and balance game systems that uphold the core mechanics
- Ability to work methodically and using predictive and iterative models
- Strong mathematical skills, with emphasis on Statistics and Probability; being able to formulate indexes to identify strengths and weaknesses of the game systems
- Perform in-engine balancing, tweaking and polishing tasks related to systems design
- Work within a multidisciplinary team towards shared goals
- Estimate, prioritise and coordinate systems design activities
- Coach teammates in systems design tasks
- Communicate and cooperate with Customers and other Stakeholders
- Participate in different Design Department activities to collaborate and coordinate with fellow game designers
YOUR PROFILE:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Professional experience in systems design: +5 years
- Ability to create game systems for a wide variety of game genres and for a wide variety of audiences
- Deep knowledge creating Game Design Documentation
- Knowledge of Game Theory and Game Design
- Fluent English and excellent communication skills
- Experience working with Art and Programming departments
- Experience tuning game systems for FTUE and game tutorials
- Experience working on games from pre-production to release and LiveOps
- Shipped multiple game titles as Game Designer
- Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, capable of working autonomously and energetic
- Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
Desirable Pluses:
- Experience in other fields of game design, such as game mechanics, level design, game narrative…
- Experience working with Unity and Unreal game engines
- Basic scripting skills to adjust features created by developers
- Experience developing for PC and console platforms
- Knowledge of NFT Game Design
- Experience in developing sandbox games
- Experience in developing big open world games
- Experience with mobile and WebGL games
- Experience with play to earn concepts
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
Magic Media is looking for an Unreal Engine Network Engineer who is self-motivated, goal-orientated, and a strong team player with in-depth knowledge about gameplay networking. The ideal candidate will have extensive full-time programming experience in games. We are looking for someone who is passionate about the digital content production process and who is willing to work with content creators and engineers of other disciplines to build awesome Unreal Engine gaming titles.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Discuss, design and integrate new networking components and replication architectures
- Optimization of network performance
- Create systems for both real-time gameplay and multiplayer events & progression
- Produce clean, well-documented code
- Conduct code reviews on code of other team members
- Continuously test, debug, profile, analyze, and optimize on applicable console and PC
YOUR PROFILE:
- Strong understanding of Unreal Netcode, replication and multiplayer elements
- Minimum 1 year experience with Unreal Engine
- 2+ years with C++, both within the confines of Unreal and in general
- 1+ handling game client-server communications
- Experience with Unreal networking protocol, including Online Subsystems, connections, sessions, and game state serialization
- TCP/UDP Network Layer
- Experience on Linux systems
- Experience using profiling tools
- Experience with networking and serialization fundamentals
- Excellent communication skills
- Fluent in English
Desirable pluses:
- Worked on AAA game titles
- Experience launching at least one shipped title
- Experience with general development within Unreal Engine, like simple and complex AI, UI, cinematics, optimization, engine functionality, particle effects integration, sound integration, and general gameplay mechanics
- Solid technical foundation (e.g. Computer Science / Maths Degree or equivalent)
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
Magic Media is currently seeking a mid 3D environment artist, who will be responsible for the creation of different kinds of props and prepare and dress 3D spaces inside a team of artists or tech artists (with less lead overview than a junior). The candidate should have demonstrable experience creating and dressing any kind of 3D space in different styles and pipelines specifically among the videogame industry. This includes modelling the mesh, texturizing and preparing the assets to be delivered under developers or tech arts demands. As a mid it could be required to assist the juniors in some punctual tasks and completing estimations or other documentation.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- You will need knowledge of the standard 3D packages, 3Ds max, Maya, Blender…
- Have a good understanding of 3D spaces and good taste dressing them
- Proficient skills in illumination and RT rendering
- Some tech knowledge in engines like unity and unreal
- Capability to achieve expected visual goals and style without full defined blueprints
- Good understanding of which style and visuals are expected in each task or project.
- Ability of art creation pipelines, asset exporting, and process automation workflows
YOUR PROFILE:
- +3 years experience and involved in various game developments
- A passion for video games
- Capability to assist workmates.
- Capability to follow specific pipelines with few lead overview (autonomy)
- Experience in various standard 3D packages creating environments
- Excellent communication skills
- Reporting and documentation skills
Desirable pluses:
- Tech Experience with Unreal or Unity assets integration or illumination
- Non-RT Rendering skills
- Animation, VFX and lighting basic skills
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
Magic Media is currently seeking a Lead Game Designer that can perform at a wide variety of game genres, platforms and target audiences and who is able to lead a project’s game design team. The perfect candidate should be capable of working on multiple projects and cooperating with Producers, Customers, and other Stakeholders -internal and external- in a fast-paced international environment.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Create thrilling games that fit our client’s vision and provide solutions that match industry standards
- Game theory and game mechanic’s design
- Create detailed documentation of the Game’s Design both for Clients and for developers
- Formulate ideas that meet the stated requirements and present them to the team in an effective manner
- Translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations
- Give feedback in a constructive and effective manner
- Design game mechanics, systems, game economy and everything that the game may need
- Work within a multidisciplinary team towards shared goals
- Estimate, prioritize and coordinate game design activities
- Coach teammates in game design tasks
- Communicate and cooperate with Customers and other Stakeholders
- Participate in different Design Department activities to collaborate and coordinate with fellow game designers
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
YOUR PROFILE:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Professional experience in game design: +5 years
- Previous experience as Lead Designer of a team of more than 3 designers
- Leading the development of at least one large game title from A-Z
- Ability to create games of a wide variety of game genres and for a wide variety of audiences
- Deep knowledge creating Game Design Documentation
- Fluent English and excellent communication skills
- Experienced working with Art and Programming departments
- Experience creating and tuning FTUE and game tutorials
- Experience in game economy, monetization and balancing
- Experience working on games from pre-production to release and LiveOps
- Shipped multiple game titles as Game Designer
- Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, capable of working autonomously and energetic
Desirable Pluses:
- Strong mathematical skills, with emphasis on Statistics and Probability
- Experience developing pitches
- Experience working with Unity and Unreal game engines
- Basic scripting skills to adjust features created by developers
- Experience developing for PC and console platforms
- Knowledge of NFT Game Design
- Experience in developing sandbox games
- Experience in developing big open world games
- Experience with mobile and WebGL games
- Experience with play to earn concepts
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!
Magic Media is a pioneering media, entertainment and tech group powered by creativity and innovation. We have a physical presence in 14 countries and expertize in the areas of art, animation, cybersecurity, game development, software development, VFX and video production amongst others. We work with leading developers and publishers within the games and tech industry, providing support and solutions designed around individual needs and carried out by global experts.
Magic Media is currently seeking a Senior Economy Designer that can perform at a wide variety of game genres, platforms, target audiences and who is able to execute a game’s vision and bolster its systems through skillful and thorough Economy Design.
WHAT WILL YOU DO:
- Work on multiple projects in a fast-paced international environment.
- Cooperate with producers, customers, and other stakeholders both internal and external.
- Create effective game economies that fit our client’s vision and provide solutions that match industry standards
- Ability to create economic game systems for a wide variety of game genres and for a wide variety of audiences
- Create clean and structured sheets that make the necessary values easily available to developers and fellow designers
- Design and balance game systems core to the game economy
- Ability to create effective and well-documented sheets
- Strong mathematical skills, with emphasis on Statistics and Probability; being able to formulate indexes to identify strengths and weaknesses of the economy design in the game
- Perform in-engine balancing, tweaking and polishing tasks related to economy design
- Work within a multidisciplinary team towards shared goals
- Estimate, prioritise and coordinate economy design activities
- Coach teammates in economy design tasks
- Communicate and cooperate with Customers and other Stakeholders
- Participate in different Design Department activities to collaborate and coordinate with fellow game designers
- Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
YOUR PROFILE:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Professional experience in economy design: +5 years
- Deep knowledge creating Game Design Documentation
- Fluent English and excellent communication skills
- Experience working with Art and Programming departments
- Experience tuning game economies for FTUE and game tutorials
- Ability to work methodically and using predictive and iterative models
- Experience in F2P monetization and balancing
- Knowledge of Game Theory and Game Design
- Deep up-to-date knowledge of the free-to-play market in mobile platforms
- Experience working on games from pre-production to release and LiveOps
- Shipped multiple game titles as Game Designer
- Must be proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, capable of working autonomously and energetic
Desirable Pluses:
- Experience in other fields of game design, such as game mechanics, level design, game narrative…
- Experience working with Unity and Unreal game engines
- Basic scripting skills to adjust features created by developers
- Experience developing for PC and console platforms
- Knowledge of NFT Game Design
- Experience in developing sandbox games
- Experience in developing big open world games
- Experience with mobile and WebGL games
- Experience with play to earn concepts
WE OFFER:
- An opportunity to hone and improve your skills by applying them to a diverse variety of engaging projects
- Be part of an international Group with offices worldwide
- Career growth and development
- Working closely with a team of like-minded people in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- Ongoing training and professional self-improvement opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- An inclusive culture and open communication
At Magic Media, our passion lies in gaming. Our vision is to create and deliver engaging and interesting games for our clients. We can deliver this high-quality work on any platform, whether it be on console, PC, or mobile. We know that reputation and results go hand-in-hand. Therefore, we work hard to find experts and talented creators to deliver the best results.
If you do not meet all the requirements, but believe you’d still be a great fit for the role, don’t worry! We’d still love to hear from you, please get in touch!