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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 2 days Housemarque's roles stay open a median of 8 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Housemarque's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Housemarque
- low 0 stale, 0 reposted of 5 open
- Hiring momentum
- 7 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
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About this role
As the Head of Design at Housemarque, you will provide strategic leadership for the design discipline, shaping its growth and evolution. Your role involves developing design leaders, establishing best practices, and ensuring that the design team has the necessary tools and processes to deliver on creative ambitions. You will collaborate closely with other leaders in the studio to foster a highly collaborative environment and represent the design function in studio-level planning.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Housemarque as an employer.
What you need
- Extensive experience leading and developing design teams within AAA, PC / Console game development environments
- Strong track record of coaching senior designers and Design Leads
- Deep understanding of game design principles
- Knowledge of modern game development pipelines, tools, engines and production workflows
- Ability to translate studio ambitions into a clear long-term strategy for the Design discipline
- Capability to balance creative ambition with production realities
Nice to have
- Experience leading a Design discipline across multiple projects, teams or development phases
- Experience scaling or transforming a Design organisation
- Experience working on high-quality action, action-adventure or systems-driven games
- Experience within a first-party studio or another environment involving significant cross-studio collaboration
Worth weighing
- No specific salary or benefits mentioned
- Focus on leadership and strategy rather than hands-on design work
- Role involves navigating complexity and ambiguity in project management
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Listed by Housemarque on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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