Mythwright

The Design Lead serves as the creative steward for all endeavours within Mythwright’s IP ecosystem. Working closely with leadership and external development partners, you will provide creative direction, strategic design guidance, and hands-on support across multiple concurrent projects, including expansions, sequels, and spinoffs. • Safeguard the integrity of Mythwright’s IP • Provide high-level creative direction that supports franchise vision • Evaluate builds and deliver structured feedback • Ensure alignment between business goals and creative output • Maintain awareness of audience expectations • Shape vision, diagnose project challenges, and contribute directly to game design • Establish and maintain shared design pillars across projects • Support teams through creative and production challenges • Cultivate strong working relationships with partner studios • Assist production in prioritizing work and evaluating progress

Role Description Mythwright is a new games publisher, established by industry veterans with a proven track record of delivering successful titles. We care deeply about supporting creative teams and building long-lasting, collaborative relationships grounded in trust and shared vision. Our focus is on Steam, where we are curating a portfolio of Simulation, Management, Strategy, and adjacent niche games designed for passionate, highly engaged player communities. We believe in championing developers, supporting creative vision, and publishing games that earn lasting loyalty. In this role, you’ll primarily focus on the strategy game Thronefall, but also take ownership of key distribution-related workstreams to ensure every title in our catalogue thrives. The Design Lead serves as the creative steward for all endeavours within Mythwright’s IP ecosystem. Working closely with leadership and external development partners, you will provide creative direction, strategic design guidance, and hands-on support across multiple concurrent projects, including expansions, sequels, and spinoffs. Your deep design expertise and game industry experience will also help inform the shape of third-party titles within our publishing portfolio. Through a balance of high-level creative oversight and practical design guidance, you help ensure the quality, cohesion, and long-term success of projects serving diverse audiences, genres and stages of production. These contributions to the design department help ensure that every project under the Mythwright banner reflects strong design thinking, a clear creative identity, and sustainable development practices. Key Responsibilities - Creative & Franchise Leadership - You safeguard the integrity of Mythwright’s IP by providing a generous balance of creative leadership, design expertise, and collaborative support, serving as a source of clarity regarding project status and creative health. - Success looks like: - Providing high-level creative direction that supports franchise vision - Evaluating builds and delivering structured, ongoing feedback - Ensuring alignment between business goals and creative output - Evaluating milestone feasibility and delivery expectations - Maintaining awareness of audience expectations and community sentiment - Game Design Expertise - You are equally comfortable shaping vision, diagnosing project challenges, and contributing directly to specialised aspects of game design and development. - Success looks like: - Providing teams with clear direction, stepping in as needed to contribute directly - Establishing and maintaining shared design pillars across projects - Advising on genre expectations, audience needs, and market positioning - Supporting teams through creative and production challenges - Elevating feature planning and co-development discussions - Collaboration - You will cultivate strong working relationships with partner studios and act as a trusted creative collaborator providing valuable support throughout development. - Success looks like: - Maintaining constructive communication with development partners - Communicating feedback clearly, candidly, and constructively - Assisting production in prioritizing work and evaluating progress - Participating in production planning and project scoping Qualifications - Senior or lead design roles across multiple shipped titles - Solid experience in IP-critical design spaces, especially level design and UI/UX - Experience working with external studios or co-development teams - Strong systems design and holistic game design expertise - Proven ability to work hands-on, in-engine as needed - Familiarity with publishing or multi-project development environments - Optimism, curiosity, and professional humility Benefits - 2-week company summer break - 2-week winter break to rest and recharge - Normal holiday allowance

• Own growth marketing activities to drive creative and impactful traffic to games • Responsible for optimising every stage of the funnel to drive organic and high-ROI inorganic growth • Monitor, analyse, and report on the performance of games • Build and maintain clear, up-to-date product dashboards • Increase the number and quality of inbound enquiries from developers • Run creative campaigns to attract submissions from new developers

Mythwright is a new games publisher, established by industry veterans with a proven track record of delivering successful titles. We care deeply about supporting creative teams and building long-lasting, collaborative relationships grounded in trust and shared vision. Our focus is on Steam, where we are curating a portfolio of Simulation, Management, Strategy, and adjacent niche games designed for passionate, highly engaged player communities. We believe in championing developers, supporting creative vision, and publishing games that earn lasting loyalty. In this role, it’s your job to own growth marketing activities using your experience to drive creative and impactful traffic to all the games under your responsibility, including growing the wishlists (pre-launch) and revenue (post-launch) through optimisation and experimentation. Key Responsibilities: 1 - Wishlist Growth You will be responsible for optimising every stage of the funnel to drive both organic and high-ROI inorganic growth. Success looks like: - Running effective campaigns to drive wishlist growth - Optimising store pages for conversion and visibility - Ensuring messaging / communications match our products (for review scores) - Continuously experimenting with new creative approaches, platforms, and services - Collaborating with external agencies to produce high-quality assets (trailers, key art, etc.) to support your campaigns 2 - Data and Dashboards You will be responsible for monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the performance of the games under your responsibility, ensuring insights lead directly to action and improvement. Success looks like: - Building and maintaining clear, up-to-date product dashboards that are updated weekly - Tracking and analysing both organic and inorganic growth performance - Reporting concise, actionable outcomes and ROI for each campaign or experiment - Collaborating with developers to align campaign performance with product vision 3 - Inbound Enquiries  You will be responsible for increasing the number and quality of inbound enquiries from developers looking for publishing support. Success looks like: - Building and maintaining a strong, high-quality online presence - Running creative campaigns to attract submissions from new developers - Experimenting with outreach approaches to improve conversion rates from initial contact to partnership discussions

Role Description We’re looking for a Principal/Lead Designer to work on a Simulation Game. This is a highly hands-on role, with more than ninety percent of your time spent directly in the build, leading prototyping, gameplay, and practical design work. You’ll contribute to and strengthen the ambition of our internally developed simulation games, focusing on systems that turn everyday work into rich, shareable play and eventually leading a small team of designers. You’ll work closely with a small, multidisciplinary team to build imaginative and replayable simulation games that connect with players, always balancing believability with fun. Qualifications - Experience leading design on simulation, sandbox, or systems-driven games. - Ability to translate high-level ideas into practical, in-build gameplay work. - Ability to balance real-world authenticity with gamified fun. - Excellent communication skills that help make designs clear, concise, and inspiring. - Comfortable operating in lean, agile environments. - Comfortable with creative acceleration tools and staying hands-on. - A genuine love for sims and for turning everyday life into extraordinary play. - Located within a UK/EU timezone. Requirements - Lead Prototyping: - Responsible for driving prototyping in the studio. - Work with a build-first mentality, using quick, hands-on gameplay tests. - Strong gameplay instincts and a practical, solutions-first mindset. - Success looks like: - Prototypes that deliver clear, accessible, and engaging mechanics and systems. - Fast, focused iteration with daily builds, feedback, and rapid adjustments. - Quickly validating or discarding ideas. - Spotting promising new directions for mechanics and systems to investigate. - Using tools to aid discovery, from rough hacks to new technologies. - Lead Design: - Responsible for the design of our games, turning high-level vision into compelling gameplay. - Work closely with the team to shape strong core loops and clear player experiences. - Success looks like: - Clear design pillars that guide each game in development. - Systems and loops that are fun, approachable, and support replayability. - Design decisions grounded in rapid prototyping and real player feedback. - Content produced efficiently without compromising player value. - Games that create joy and land at eighty-five percent or higher on Steam. - Recruiting & Managing Design Team: - Responsible for recruiting and managing a small but world-class design team. - Help foster healthy collaboration across Tech, Art, and Production. - Success looks like: - A design team, supported through onboarding, mentoring, and daily leadership. - Designers who feel aligned, empowered, and able to do their best work. - Seamless collaboration between design, technical, and art teams. - A reliable network of contractors who can provide targeted support. - A studio culture shaped by curiosity, iteration, and shared ownership. Benefits - 2-week company summer break. - 2-week winter break to rest and recharge. - Normal holiday allowance.

• In this role, the Senior External Producer will play a critical part in ensuring Mythwright releases a portfolio of high-quality titles. • You will manage cross functional projects across multiple platforms, working closely with external and internal development partners to deliver games that meet creative, commercial, and quality expectations for our diverse global audience. • You will act as a trusted production partner providing structure, visibility, and support while balancing creative ambition with practical delivery constraints. • You will be responsible for building and maintaining strong, productive relationships with our external partners; ensuring alignment across creative vision, scope, schedule, and budget. • You will be responsible for maintaining clear visibility across all assigned projects, ensuring progress is tracked accurately and communicated effectively to internal stakeholders. • You will be responsible for overseeing the end to end release process, ensuring games are delivered smoothly, compliantly, and to the expected quality bar.

• We’re looking for a Principal/Lead Designer to work on a Simulation Game. • This is a highly hands-on role, with more than ninety percent of your time spent directly in the build. • Leading prototyping, gameplay, and practical design work. • You’ll contribute to and strengthen the ambition of our simulation games, focusing on systems that turn work into play. • Leading a small team of designers and collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary team. • Building imaginative and replayable simulation games that connect with players.