Director / Lead Planner

This role serves as a director or lead planner in the Fourth Business Division and is responsible for core game design and advancing projects as a whole. The director responsibilities include creating game design documents, defining game requirements, planning and maintaining project milestones and the overall schedule, judging deliverable quality, establishing the team development structure and environment, and driving team development.

The lead planner works with the director to establish the foundation of the game, manages planners’ work schedules, maintains the quality of planner outputs, builds the planning team’s development structure and environment, and coordinates with leaders of other sections to support smooth team development.

The division develops and operates mobile and multi-device game titles, including One Piece Bounty Rush, Sakatsuku: Road to World, Hokuto no Ken LEGENDS ReVIVE, D×2 Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation and Chain Chronicle.

Applicants must have experience working as a director or lead planner on a team of 50 or more people, experience participating from the development phase through release, and experience designing and building a game system that forms the core of a game. Experience developing and operating multiplayer or online games is welcomed. Practical experience directing and managing progress for development involving external studios is also welcomed.

The position is listed as a regular employee role. Depending on skills and experience, a contract employee offer may be made. The work location is in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The listed annual salary starts at 9 million JPY.