Null Signal Games is looking for a new Lead Designer! As the head of the Netrunner Design team, the Lead Designer should possess both a deeply rooted sense of game design and an ambitious product vision for Netrunner. The Lead Designer manages the Design team, meaning they work with Null Signal Games’ game designers on a daily basis and report and work directly with our VP of Product.. This is a job with high importance and high impact – from day one, you’ll be setting the design direction for the Netrunner products that people around the world play and love.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Manage the Design team, including:

• Serve as the primary stakeholder for Design in cross-team conversations

• Mentor designers

• Own hiring decisions for the team

• Lead product design for new sets by working with the Narrative and Visual leads to create compelling narrative gameplay experiences

• Lead coordination with the Development and Rules teams after a set is design-complete to ensure that individual designs function as intended

• Produce designs for cards as necessary to help to build the structure for a set, and to fill in gaps in a set as they arise

• Act as a leader within Null Signal Games, including driving and participating in discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of business and organizational decisions
  

Required skills:

• Proven track record of game design skills

• Proven track record of ability to make tough decisions

• Strong management skills, including mentoring, cross-team communication, and long-term planning

• Ability to serve as a public face for Null Signal Games, including in articles and interviews

NOTE: Null Signal Games is a volunteer organization. All roles at Null Signal Games are unpaid.