Templar Media ยท 1 month ago
Lead Game Designer
Alpharetta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expTemplar Media is a company focused on creating engaging games, and they are seeking a Lead Game Designer to shape the player experience and enhance the capabilities of their design team. The role involves driving the creation of game designs, coordinating with various departments, and mentoring team members to improve design practices.
Entertainment
Responsibilities
Drive the creation and refinement of game designs
Coordinate with the Game Director and Producer to help define scope, schedule design tasks and meet milestone demands
Perform ongoing design to iterate on, improve, and flesh out the game design throughout the development process from early design to post release add-ons
Work closely with the Lead Level Designer to manage the creation of levels
Work with all departments on the scheduling and integration of the game design, as well as game feature development goals and execution
Lead, coordinate and participate in collaborative efforts to implement and balance gameplay features, based on the design
Mentor the design team to grow their skill sets and capabilities
Establish and maintain best practices and processes for the design team, proactively improving how we do design
Maintain communications with all team members, team leads and executive management,internally and externally
Suggest and lead process improvement initiatives
Qualification
Required
Lead Designer experience on at least one product from start to finish
Strong ability to coordinate and get the best out of a varied and diverse team of designers
At least 7 years of experience as a designer
Shipped title experience with both single player campaigns and multiplayer
Excellent design skills and thorough understanding of game design theory
Demonstrated ability and desire to 'think outside the box'; when designing, challenge existing design paradigms, and push the envelope of design
Ability to clearly articulate complicated systems to other team members and senior management
Strong communication and inter-personal skills, leading to a demonstrated ability to work within a collaborative team structure
Minimum of 2 shipped products with design credit
Preferred
Unreal Engine 4/5 experience
Experience with both single-player and multiplayer gameplay design
Experience with open-world or co-op game design
Experience with combat and stealth game design
Familiarity with mission, quest, or dialogue systems
Understanding of Unreal's Blueprint system and scripting workflows
A love of games, especially action-adventure and cooperative titles
Benefits
Highly competitive salary
Benefits package
Company
Templar Media
Templar Media is a newly founded video game publishing and media company based in Atlanta, GA.
0-1 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase