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Experienced Designer - Onsite

Are you a Games Designer with at least one released title looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact?

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are on the lookout for an Experienced Designer to join our passionate and talented Rebellion North team to work on a new unannounced sports game!

The Experienced Designer is a new role dedicated to creating high-quality designs and prototypes for gameplay features following the project's creative vision. You will contribute to the game’s vision by writing detailed specifications of gameplay features to be used throughout the production process, and conducting gameplay evaluations with the team, providing feedback and suggestions to improve the game.

As part of the design team, you will play a key role in supporting the Lead Designer to develop the project and improve the gameplay.

This role would suit an experienced Designer who has worked on at least one game for the full development cycle, looking to bring their skills to a brand-new unannounced IP.

The Rebellion Design team delivers design for multiple high-end projects with a focus on optimising gameplay and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality detailed game design documents and prototype specifications that can be used throughout the production process
• Develop and iterate the game design through close collaboration with Artists, Code, and other disciplines
• Conduct gameplay evaluations with the team providing feedback and suggestions to help fine tune and improve the game
• Track and update the progress of day-to-day tasks using the designated tracking tools
• Communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders to confirm task direction and consistency of own work
• Implement and incorporate feedback from Producers and Leads into their work
• Assist with optimisation and debugging to fix the issues raised by testers
• Apply best practices, production pipelines, and workflows
• Support the Lead Designer in any ad hoc tasks and duties

Requirements

• High-level knowledge and understanding of creating game design documents and prototype specifications
• High-level knowledge and understanding of professional game engines and knowledge of Unreal Engine would be preferable
• Easily able to adapt to and help create new processes or pipelines
• High-level knowledge and understanding of the video game development process
• High-level knowledge and understanding of production pipelines
• Effectively able to communicate ideas and thoughts about your work to colleagues both verbally and in writing
• Able to provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex problems with minimal assistance
• Able to manage workload with limited direction

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can to be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neuro-diversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all of our live vacancies: Rebellion : Careers