Location: Cambridge, UK – This position can accommodate flexible working options. However, candidates must be based (or be willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our Cambridge office to be able to attend onsite as required.
Are you a creative, systems-minded designer with a passion for RuneScape and a drive to build content that millions of players will experience?
As a Junior Game Designer on the RuneScape Design team, you’ll design and implement engaging content across a variety of areas of the game from initial concept through to scripting and release. You’ll get hands-on with RuneScript, our in-house scripting language (full training provided), and quickly build the skills to bring your ideas to life in one of the longest-running MMORPGs in history.
Working within multi-disciplinary teams, you’ll contribute to weekly updates for a passionate, dedicated player community and grow your craft with the support of experienced designers around you.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design varied and engaging content across multiple areas of RuneScape, taking creative ownership of smaller tasks while contributing to larger projects alongside your team.
- Script your designs using RuneScript, our in-house language, developing the technical skills needed to bring your content to life directly in the game.
- Build and maintain clear design documentation to support collaboration and keep development on track.
- Continuously deepen your knowledge of RuneScape’s existing systems, content, and community so your work integrates seamlessly into the broader game.
- Collaborate closely with designers, engineers, artists, and community teams to contribute to high-quality weekly updates.
- Engage with the RuneScape community – supported by our embedded Community Management team – to develop an understanding of player needs and desires.
What we’re looking for:
- A strong working knowledge of RuneScape, including its skills, quests, progression systems, and player behaviours – this is essential.
- Understanding of MMORPG content loops, progression design, and systemic game design principles.
- Some experience with scripting or programming, demonstrating the technical aptitude to learn RuneScript.
- Proven ability to manage your own time, communicate progress clearly, and know when to ask for support.
- Experience working collaboratively within a team environment, whether in game development, modding, or a related creative field.
What we offer:
When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
- Discretionary annual performance bonus.
- Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
- Life Insurance.
- Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.
- Flexible working hours.
- 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!
Right to Work Statement
This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.
About Jagex
We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.
As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit https://www.jagex.com/ .
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.
Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.
Inclusion & Accessibility Statement
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.
Skills Required
- Strong working knowledge of RuneScape (skills, quests, progression systems, player behaviours)
- Understanding of MMORPG content loops, progression design, and systemic game design principles
- Some experience with scripting or programming demonstrating technical aptitude to learn RuneScript
- Proven ability to manage time, communicate progress clearly, and ask for support when needed
- Experience working collaboratively within a team environment (game development, modding, or related creative field)
- Be based within a comfortable commuting distance of the Cambridge office or willing to relocate
- Permanent right to work in the UK (employer cannot provide visa sponsorship)
What We Do
A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games on PC, Console & Mobile that empower our communities. Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers. Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. Jagex has added to its skill set with the acquisitions of Pipeworks and Gamepires in 2022, bringing our expertise to titles such as SCUM, helping to make SCUM a forever game. It also works with external partners on products such as Melvor Idle and This Means Warp; bringing these titles to new and existing audiences. Jagex employs more than 600 people at its Cambridge headquarters and around the world at Pipeworks in North America, and Gamepires in Europe. We’re always on the hunt for talented people to work across the business, to help the company to achieve its goals.
