Lead Game Producer, Arcade
Description
ABOUT US
ARRISE sets the benchmark for service delivery and excellence in the iGaming industry. Playing a key role in the success of its clients, which include Pragmatic Play, a brand relied upon by the world’s biggest online casinos for its cutting-edge products, ARRISE helps to deliver exceptional gaming experiences to millions of players worldwide.
Our global team of over 10,000 talented and driven professionals are shaping the future of iGaming. Headquartered in Gibraltar, we have offices spanning Canada, India, the Isle of Man, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and the UAE, and more exciting destinations on the horizon.
At ARRISE, we take pride in creating growth opportunities at all levels, constantly investing in our people while welcoming new colleagues and forging strategic partnerships that open new opportunities for success.
To achieve this, we bet on ourselves. We know that success is a collective effort, and our team is driven by ambition, collaboration, and a shared commitment to grow and succeed—while embracing every step of the journey.
Be part of the future of iGaming with 10,000 ARRISERS! See a job that excites you? Apply now, and our friendly recruitment team will connect with you soon. Your journey starts here!
OUR VALUES
PERSISTENCE
We never give up and are determined to be the best at what we do.
RESPECT
We value and respect our clients, players, and our team members; promoting professionalism, integrity and fairness without compromise.
OWNERSHIP
We take ownership of our work and consistently deliver in a reliable manner; always providing the highest level of quality.
Whatever your role or experience level, you’ll play an important part in delivering our success.
And you can expect to learn, have fun, and make lifelong connections along the way.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Our award-winning team of game creators are looking to grow so that we can release even more transformative experiences to the millions of players that enjoy our games every day. Experienced industry veterans will understand that producing blockbuster titles is no easy feat, requiring an obsessive eye for every detail including the game design, mathematics, and artwork.
That’s where you would come in: we’re looking for a superstar game producer who can work with our team to take arcade game concepts, breathe life into them, and help turn them into hits.
If you’re able to expertly communicate your vision, guide game production from start to finish, inspire top design, production and development personnel, and work tireless to build games in service of entertaining our players, you’ll fit right in.
Reporting to the VP of Game Production and working closely with everyone involved in building a game, this is a hands-on role that can be on the ground with the team or based remotely.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIESCore Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the game production team to help define, conceptualise and iterate new game visions. This will include participating in design reviews, team meetings, and brainstorming sessions.
- If there are similar games out there, research competitive arcade games and determine the feature set that we will be supporting for our arcade games.
- Lead new arcade games from start to finish. This will be particularly heavy on the conceptual development at the beginning and requires a full blueprint for the game theme, narrative, animations, sequencing, structuring, and production.
- Present concepts clearly, concisely, and effectively to the team and to stakeholders.
- Execute upon concepts and established visions for arcade games. This means working with the game art director (and game art team) to define the creative vision and ensure that media assets are delivered, game producer and development team to ensure they understand the sequencing and flow of the game (down to the fine details of each animation) and what to build, sound designers for scoring and sound effects, and anyone else who may be part of the overall game development process that contributes to delivering a polished hit.
- Prepare tidy, thoughtful, and well-structured specifications for games and supervise their implementation to ensure they are delivered according to the original vision.
- Provide quality control over design outputs and production.
- Assist the teams with questions about the game direction and to help guide the specifications.
- Adjust designs based on feedback from stakeholders or from broader technical challenges, constraints, or limitations that may arise during the production process.
- Feedback on other proposed designs and requirements within the team, particularly in cases where it may affect the dependencies and connected interaction design.
- You will be playtesting your games like crazy: prepare to mark your own homework and ensure that all the details in your direction have been (a) implemented according to your vision and (b) play as well as you thought they would. You need to make sure that all the visuals, graphics, animations, micro-animations, flow, music, and SFX click together in a way that will resonate with the player.
Strategic Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve our game direction to weave consistence and game familiarity throughout our universe of arcade titles (where you are involved) while still giving us enough flexibility to try new things.
- Discover how to incorporate elements of our branding into games or how our game direction style can become an intrinsic element of our corporate branding strategy.
- Thoughtfully consider how arcade games fit into the broader design language of the business and how an individual game’s direction may extend to sequels or series, particularly premier titles.
- Develop creative concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance our brand and proposition strategy.
- Understand what our competitors are doing differently and to help us identify elements that we may want to incorporate.
- Work to streamline our game production pipeline to reliably deliver high-quality, fully polished games at pace.
- Evaluate technologies that can help augment our game direction pipelines.
- Keep an eye on broader design trends and tools, especially within the gaming and entertainment spaces, to ensure that we are keeping up with best design practices and exceeding customer expectations.
- Provide thoughtful, considered feedback on the overall roadmap and design strategy.
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Education, Qualifications, and Background:
You must have worked in a game production capacity for designing social or real money gaming arcade games. The more projects you can demonstrate, the better. Be prepared to discuss your roles in those projects and how you set the vision and shaped the final product.
You must understand the arcade/instant win landscape for real money gaming. Be prepared to discuss competitive products.
Key Experience Areas
You must have a clear understanding and respect for our players, ideally knowing what they like, what they’re looking for, and how to give them more of the things they love. This should come from experience having developed a substantial body of work. You need to polish every detail by weaving static artwork, animations & micro-animations, and music & sfx in a way that is compelling and immersive for the player.
You must understand how to produce clear specifications and guidelines directly illustrate your vision and expected execution for new arcade games. You must be extremely comfortable working with different game production talent to visually develop conceptual mechanics and present them to players in a way that’s simple and easy to grasp.
You must be familiar with communicating excitement, anticipation, and relative value in a way that is easily understood by the player. You must understand technical constraints and creatively work around them when necessary. Although our approach is to design the dream and figure out how to deliver it, there may be practical considerations that you should intrinsically understand.
Having the ability to delve into graphic design, motion graphics, animation, or video outside of product and UI design is a plus. Ideally you will have some technical background or knowledge. Understanding how developers build the interfaces and the challenges they face is tremendously valuable when designing games.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
You should:
- Stating the obvious: love arcade games – to succeed in this role, you need a passion and respect for the product you’re building.
- Take ownership of your deliveries as if they were for your own company. This includes exuding a startup mentality where you are working to constantly ship great product.
- Be exceptionally well-organised and structured with your time. There are going to be a lot of moving parts to this role so you must bring method and structure to your approach, particularly when you consider that we have many game titles in parallel pipelines.
- Be extremely creative and thrive in an ultra-creative environment – your role is to bring life to games and rally teams around that vision.
- Adapt quickly to different teams, different types of teams (internal versus external), working styles, and art styles.
- Be ready to adopt a mobile-first mentality and understand how to design games for small form-factor designs before moving onto desktop.
- Be obsessed with details. Creating amazing player experiences means every single detail matters. In a such a highly competitive industry, all these small aspects can stack up to make all the difference.
- Bring an infectious gaming mentality that the team can adopt and easily work with.
- Take critical feedback well. A lot of different stakeholders are going to be looking at the designs and prototypes and providing their input – this is a critical part of the collaboration process. Knowing how to accept and act on feedback is vital to this role.
- Discuss constructively and diplomatically. Having many different views means that we won’t always agree – but we need to focus on collaborating solutions that deliver optimal outcomes for our customers. You will also be providing feedback to different individuals and teams to take designs forward and that needs to be done well to keep things moving.
- Be an expert communicator both visually and verbally. Your designs and prototypes should nearly speak for themselves; however, you still need to be able to walk different audiences through them in detail. For example, explaining them to stakeholders versus relaying the details to development.
- Exude transparency, openness, and objectivity. We’re here to build great games and need to collaborate effectively.
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work to very tight deadlines. We work to visualise things quickly and make decisions to push the business forward.
- Speak English natively or be completely fluent.
BENEFITS
- Highly competitive salary
- Detailed company training on the highest standards
- Friendly and supportive culture
- Tremendous growth opportunities in a large, fast-moving international company
