Lead Designer, Activity

Responsibilities

• Understand the game’s intended position in the market and design towards those goals
• Articulate a compelling vision for gameplay activities, socialize that vision, and get buy-in from stakeholders
• Maintain useful and accurate documentation of designs
• Collaborate with the Lead World Designer to integrate game activities seamlessly into the level design
• Take feedback and direction from the Design Director
• Collaborate with other design leads to achieve a cohesive experience
• Balance the needs of design with those of art, engineering, and production
• Build and lead a world-class team of activity designers
• Mentor and manage the career growth of more junior activity designers
• Design and implement repeatable, open-world activities that scale from few to many players
• Design and implement scripted, narrative-driven activities
• Design and implement pinnacle activities that challenge coordinated groups of dedicated players
• Design and implement limited-time activities for calendar-based events
• Conduct regular playtests of game activities, translate playtest feedback into appropriate actions for the current phase of development
• Maintain game activities in the live service, fixing bugs, and tuning when necessary

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ design experience
• 5+ years in a leadership role
• 3+ years' experience as a people-manager in the design discipline
• Shipped 1+ live-service multiplayer title(s) in a design leadership role
• Shipped 1+ action title(s) in a design leadership role
• Designed and implemented 1+ “endgame” activities for a live-service title

Nice-to-Haves

• UE5 expertise
• C++ and/or scripting experience
• Knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies
• Any analytical framework that you can leverage in the design space (from economics to hermeneutics, anything that helps you think about design in a useful way)