Game Director hos Sharkmob i Malmö

The role

As Game Director, you will be a key creative and design leader on the project, responsible for defining and championing the vision for the game's core loop, gameplay, and meta-game.

You will work closely with the Chief Creative Officer, producers, directors, and discipline leads to turn that vision into a cohesive, engaging, shippable, and commercially successful game. You will balance creative ambition with production realities, player feedback, data, and the evolving needs of a live multiplayer game.

This is a hands-on leadership role on site. We are looking for someone who enjoys spending time in the build, playing alongside the team, understanding the game at a detailed level, and helping teams make strong decisions about gameplay, systems, quality, and scope.

You will not be expected to have every answer yourself. A big part of the role is creating clarity, bringing together expertise from across the team, and making decisions when the project needs them.

Requirements

• Significant professional game development experience, including experience in a senior creative, design, or game leadership role
• Experience shipping at least one multiplayer game, ideally with substantial ownership of gameplay, systems, or creative direction
• Strong systems-design instincts and an ability to reason about areas such as progression, economies, risk and reward, encounter pacing, and session structure
• Experience leading or working closely with multidisciplinary teams across areas such as design, art, engineering, UX, and production
• A strong understanding of multiplayer game development and the ways player behaviour, telemetry, playtesting, and community feedback can inform design decisions
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to create alignment around a vision across both development teams and senior stakeholders
• The ability to make thoughtful design and scope trade-offs while working within real production constraints
• A collaborative leadership style, with the confidence to make decisions while drawing on the expertise of the people around you
• Bonus points
• Any of the following would be a bonus, but we don't expect one person to bring all of them:
• Deep knowledge of multiplayer shooters and a strong understanding of why different approaches within the genre work
• Experience designing or directing games that combine PvP and PvE systems
• Experience with extraction shooters or session-based multiplayer games
• Experience working on a live-service game after launch
• Experience with Unreal Engine or another large-scale proprietary game engine
• A background in competitive FPS or TPS design, including areas such as weapon balance, movement, hit registration, networking constraints, or combat readability
• Experience working closely with UX, user research, analytics, or player-insights teams
• Experience taking a multiplayer game through alpha, beta, soft launch, or other large-scale external testing
• Experience building games for console and PC audiences
• An understanding of matchmaking, skill distribution, retention, and the social dynamics of multiplayer games
• Experience growing or mentoring senior designers and design leads
• Experience presenting a game or creative vision to external partners, press, or player communities

Above all, we're looking for someone with strong creative judgement, a genuine curiosity about how players experience games, and the ability to bring a team together around a clear and compelling vision.