Product Design Director jobs in Wisconsin
Product Design Director manages and coordinates design, development, and enhancement of new and existing products/product lines. Evaluates and ensures design feasibility and design optimization. Being a Product Design Director assists in the determination of project milestones and timelines. Ensures team meets project milestones and completes projects within the established timeline. Additionally, Product Design Director evaluates issues, provides resolution, and communicates to management. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to top management. The Product Design Director typically manages through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate complexity. Provides input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility. May give input into developing the budget. To be a Product Design Director typically requires 3+ years of managerial experience. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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Design Director
- Lost Boys Interactive
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Madison, WI
FULL_TIME
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Lost Boys Interactive is Hiring! If you are looking for a remote home to bring your Design Director skills and experience, look no further. Bring your passion for creating awesome games, and we'll provide an amazing team for you to work with along with a great environment and exciting AAA projects to work on! We also offer a full suite of benefits!
As a Design Director you will create the vision and own the experience quality for a full game project. You will also work with the other directors to plan, detail, and review the work being developed for the game. The Design Director will work with the Associate Design Director and/or Seniors to manage the design team and mentor them to better craft and quality. The Design Director will be responsible for helping scope and determining design team composition.
The Design Director will need good communication skills and a great understanding of engines, good design process and how to convey vision and intent clearly to rally the team and stakeholders around decisions and changes. You will need to know how to negotiate features and solve challenging problems based productively and positively in ways that get us to action and solutions that result in the best experience achievable.
Lost Boys Interactive is a member of the Embracer Group family. We are a rapidly growing AAA game studio based in Madison, Wisconsin, with full remote work available from any state in the US. We provide top-tier development for our partners as well as working on our own AAA game projects. We have world-class projects, resources, and infrastructure, but our company’s success comes from the talented and passionate people who work together each day to produce great games together.
Supportive, Collaborative, Safe, Accepting, Respectful, Kind, and Fun are a few words that our employees use to describe their experience at Lost Boys Interactive. Do these words describe the kind of studio you would like to call home? Apply today to start your Lost Boys adventure!
Please note: You must reside in the US and have prior AAA experience to qualify for this role. We are sorry, but Lost Boys Interactive is not able to sponsor visas at this time.
Essential Job Responsibilities:- Work with other disciplines leads to ensure the features being developed will bring the vision to life
- Understand genre needs and ensure that the elements developed by the team will contribute to player satisfaction and enjoyment
- Assess the workload against production capacity, help plan the work, and set priorities for the game design team and influence plans for the team
- Assign tasks for the design team and evaluate quality of the deliverable and give feedback for improvement
- Able to drive and follow-up on prototyping (both digital and paper based) with all disciplines
- Communicate the project objectives, sprint objectives, strategies, and general information to all team members so as to give visibility to the advancement of the development of the game and the other crafts
- Actively participate and act as a regular liaison in the decision-making process with management and oversee the necessary adjustments to ensure that the game design team meets expectations
- Supervise and be responsible for providing clear and structured project documents to ensure that gameplay intentions are understood and that team members are working on the right elements (ingredients, game system, gaming modes, behavior specifications, etc.)
- Participate in the hiring and mentoring of team members
- Help manage any conflicts that arise within the team
- Drive a positive and productive culture in the design department and the project team
- Minimum 5 years in the industry leading teams
- Must have shipped a minimum of 3 titles as a designer and at least 2 titles as a lead designer or higher
- Proven examples of solid game design work
- Curiosity and drive to understand how things work
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
- Adaptability, autonomy, proactivity
- Structure, attention to detail, efficiency
- Ability to clearly express ideas (spoken and written)
- Ability to understand and communicate in technical language
- User focus
- Programming/scripting experience
- Management experience
- Strategic thinker
- UE4 and Unity experience is a
Lost Boys Interactive LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
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Senior Product Design Engineer
- CyberCoders
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Menomonee Falls, WI
FULL_TIME
- We are the industry's leading manufacturer of commercial washrooms and industrial safety applications. We are looking for a Product Design Engineer III to join us in our Menomonee Falls, WI location.P...
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Product Design Engineer
- Collaborate Solutions, Inc
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Middleton, WI
FULL_TIME
- Description for Product Design Engineer:This Product Design Engineer will be joining the existing Product & Textile Engineering for an opportunity to be immersed in cutting edge Product Design with an...
- 9 Days Ago
Product Design Engineer III
- Springs Window Fashions
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Middleton, WI
FULL_TIME
- DescriptionSprings Window Fashions has been part of the window treatments industry since 1939. Headquartered in Middleton WI, we have over 8,000 associates and 18 locations worldwide. Our products are...
- 9 Days Ago
Product Design Engineer
- WEATHER SHIELD MFG INC
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Medford, WI
OTHER
- Job Details Job Location: Medford, WI Salary Range: Undisclosed DescriptionDesigning award-winning products that solve our customers’ jobs-to-be-done is at the heart of what we do. As a Design Enginee...
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Design Engineer (Product Development)
- thestaffinghub
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Milwaukee, WI
FULL_TIME
- Job DetailsRole Summary: As a Product Development Engineer, you will be responsible for new product development and product enhancement work, including design, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing ...
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About Wisconsin
Wisconsin is bordered by the Montreal River; Lake Superior and Michigan to the north; by Lake Michigan to the east; by Illinois to the south; and by Iowa to the southwest and Minnesota to the northwest. A border dispute with Michigan was settled by two cases, both Wisconsin v. Michigan, in 1934 and 1935. The state's boundaries include the Mississippi River and St. Croix River in the west, and the Menominee River in the northeast.
With its location between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Wisconsin is home to a wide variety of geographical features. The state is divided into five dist...
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Income Estimation for Product Design Director jobs
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What does a Product Design Director do?
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Integrators of information, technology, materials and methods who can adapt and apply multidisciplinary 2D and 3D design skills, business and entrepreneurship skills across industries.
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Design thinking is a method for the practical resolution of problems.
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