Jobs at Digital Extremes

Create imaginative concept art for characters, environments, weapons, and other game assets. Collaborate with art, creative, and game design teams to establish visual direction, develop production-ready artwork, and iterate within an established style. Apply strong anatomy, perspective, lighting, composition, color, materials, and texture skills while meeting deadlines and adapting to changing creative requirements.

Develop and execute global influencer marketing campaigns for video game launches across platforms including Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. Manage creator and agency relationships, coordinate cross-functional initiatives, track budgets and KPIs, forecast campaign outcomes, and identify new partnership opportunities. Support community creator programs, livestreams, paid social, events, and content initiatives while maintaining project management tools and reporting campaign performance.

Leads game design for core player experiences, including UI, character movement, combat, enemy AI, mini-games, and cooperative gameplay. Mentors designers, collaborates with animation, programming, level design, and tools teams, and drives concepts from development through polish. Uses playtests, player feedback, and gameplay data to refine designs and combat encounters while documenting creative direction and supporting efficient iteration.

Own the end-to-end co-op and internship program, including onboarding, orientations, check-ins, student engagement, university relationships, and career-fair representation. Support recruitment operations through candidate screening, sourcing, interview coordination, ATS management, pipeline reporting, candidate communications, and hiring-team debriefs. Contribute to recruitment branding, campus outreach, analytics, HR projects, and administrative tasks while serving as a key contact for students, managers, and educational institutions.

Create high-quality real-time visual effects for video games using 3D software, particle systems, shaders, and postprocessing effects. Optimize effects for memory usage and gameplay performance, collaborate with art, design, audio, and development teams, and iterate based on creative feedback. The role also involves researching new techniques, following production schedules, communicating across disciplines, and maintaining a strong artistic standard.

Build full-stack web products extending gaming experiences and communities. Develop responsive interfaces from Figma designs, create animations, optimize performance and Core Web Vitals, and build high-performance PHP/Laravel APIs and backend services. Work with data models, storage layers, REST APIs, and web technologies while collaborating with designers and product managers. Participate in code reviews and agile CI/CD workflows.

Designs and implements game modes, missions, quests, events, and AI systems. Collaborates with designers, programmers, and other departments to bring features to production, troubleshoot bugs, support live content, and maintain shipped features. Provides mentorship to junior technical designers and promotes scripting best practices. Requires strong Lua or similar scripting skills, basic C++ and Visual Studio knowledge, and substantial game development experience.