Top Design Jobs

Design, prototype, iterate, polish, and ship single-player and cooperative shooter levels using Unreal Engine. Collaborate with artists, mission designers, writers, programmers, narrative designers, and enemy designers to create engaging combat and mission experiences. Own level vision from paper design through final product, incorporate feedback, meet deadlines, maintain quality standards, and mentor junior level designers.

Designs, balances, and implements gameplay systems including progression, economies, rewards, stats, and game modes. Tunes systems using feedback, metrics, and playtests; analyzes systemic outcomes; documents design logic and balancing guidelines; and collaborates with engineering, art, production, and design teams. The role supports player agency, emergent storytelling, meaningful trade-offs, and long-term engagement in a large-scale sports game.

Leads a multiplayer game feature team by setting design objectives, managing and mentoring designers, defining sprint and milestone priorities, evaluating gameplay, and coordinating cross-functional execution. The role requires expertise in multiplayer systems, competitive PvP design, gameplay theory, feedback analysis, tradeoff management, Unreal Engine, and Blueprint visual scripting.

Leads and mentors gameplay animators developing high-end player-character and AI animations. Establishes animation vision, pipelines, workflows, tools, onboarding, Unreal Engine training, and motion-capture planning. Creates hand-key and motion-capture animations, collaborates on production roadmaps and sprint planning, delegates tasks, resolves blockers, supports hiring, and promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration and a positive team culture.

Leads and mentors a gameplay animation team creating high-end player-character and AI animations for a AAA game. Responsibilities include setting animation vision, improving pipelines and tools, training team members, planning motion capture, producing hand-key and motion-capture animations, supporting milestones and hiring, and collaborating across disciplines. The role requires strong expertise in gameplay animation systems, rigging, facial animation, anatomy, and animation principles.

The Senior Mission Designer will create and oversee mission ideas, prototype gameplay experiences, mentor other designers, and collaborate with the team to enhance game mechanics.

Lead and mentor a lighting team to create dynamic, optimized real-time lighting and cinematics in Unreal Engine 5. Establish pipelines, best practices, and cross-discipline collaboration with Tech and Production to deliver AAA-quality visual results.

Lead and mentor a team of world builders and level artists to create stylized, high-quality environmental art. Collaborate with Art, Design, Narrative, and engineering leads to design modular level architecture, manage asset lists and workflows, provide feedback, and ensure artistic consistency across a AAA game project.

Lead and grow a lighting team to define and execute real-time lighting for immersive AAA games. Establish visual standards, optimize lighting workflows, collaborate with Art, Tech, and Production to meet runtime and timeline constraints.

The Senior Combat Designer will script engaging gameplay encounters and collaborate with various teams to create immersive experiences for BioShock 4.