Lead Game Designer · Exient Publishing
Feb 2025 – Present · MaltaMobile, PC and out-of-home titles built for licensed IP holders including Netflix, PlayStation, Rovio and Outright Games.
- Lead and mentor a team of four designers: one-to-ones and growth, workload planning, and acting as design’s point of contact with every other department.
- Led design on Bad Dinosaurs, a launch title for Netflix Playground. I audited an inherited design document for the questions it never answered, decided what to keep and what to change, and cleared Netflix’s launch bar for the April 2026 release.
- Designed for children eight and under, an audience that cannot read a tutorial: one clear action at a time, oversized targets, visual feedback that rewards exploring, no fail states and no dead ends.
- Work with leadership on creative direction across internal and work-for-hire projects, and contribute concepts for pitches and licensing opportunities.