The Potato Page creates and sells party games designed to get people playing together. Its range includes quick-to-learn games for two players, family gatherings and travel, with options suited to different group sizes and settings. The company works across gaming and retail, bringing social games to customers through its products.
Game Designer
Design and test inclusive tabletop games at Big Potato, from developing original concepts and pitching ideas to supporting product launches.
Opis
- Shape new games around creative briefs, player needs and price points
- Build quick playable prototypes and test them with colleagues and external players
- Use feedback to refine concepts and run further tests
- Track games, play and broader cultural trends to spark new concepts
- Pitch game ideas and communicate the thinking behind them
- Create names for new products
- Contribute to short instructional videos explaining how to play
- Playtest product samples ahead of launch
- Create games that welcome players from all backgrounds
- Identify ways to lower the environmental footprint of products
Zahteve
- Have developed original ideas into real products, projects, formats, writing or experiences
- Know how to turn an early idea into something people can try, use or respond to
- Regularly test your work, consider feedback and make changes based on what you learn
- Understand what makes an experience fun and why
- Bring plenty of ideas and be willing to pitch them, while accepting that some will not succeed
- Stay organised while coordinating people, deadlines, logistics and follow-ups
- Take an interest in culture, trends and the ways people play
- Write clearly, explain ideas simply and summarise what you learn
- Make a habit of creating for people across genders, races, sexual orientations and backgrounds
- Enjoy playing games of all kinds
- Have worked to a brief, for a defined audience or within a budget
Ugodnosti
- Four-day working week
- 16 days of annual leave for full-time employees, plus bank and public holidays
- Annual £500 holiday bonus, pro rata
- Share in the business through the Employee Benefit Trust after 12 months
- Private healthcare through BUPA at no cost
- Access to the Government Pension Scheme
- Free eye tests and a cycle-to-work scheme
- Discounted gym membership and monthly yoga at no cost
- Paid monthly social events, plus summer and Christmas parties
- Free games
- Free fruit, snacks and drinks, including soft drinks, tea, coffee, wine and beer at the office
- Dog-friendly office