About Offworld Industries:
Offworld Industries Ltd. (OWI) is the independent studio behind the successful military first-person shooter game, “Squad”. OWI was formed in 2014 by more than 15 developers who had worked together on the well known Project Reality mod for Battlefield 2. The founding purpose of the team was to bring a standalone successor of this acclaimed mod to market and build a game development studio and a livelihood from that foundation.
Fast forward to 2023, OWI has nearly 120 employees and is rapidly growing. We have been expanding the studio into serving as a publisher supporting mods and have just released our new title into early access, "Starship Troopers: Extermination", a 12-player PvE first-person shooter based on the 1997 cult-classic film.
We are built on passion, unified spirit and continuing efforts to break the mold. We strive to become a leader in creating large-scale multiplayer games as well as supplying others with the ability to do the same. We are looking for a talented Lead Game Designer for our current and upcoming Unreal Engine based multiplayer games. If you are passionate about making great games and a team player, we are looking for you!
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Project Lead to establish and maintain the creative vision for the project.
- Oversee all design tasks for the project, including the creation of game/technical design documentation.
- Review and curate all design pitches and share them with the leads group.
- Delegate areas of ownership and oversee the work of the design team when it comes to designing features, gameplay mechanics and game balancing.
- Review design work to ensure design/product goals are met and a consistent quality is achieved.
- Provide timely feedback and direction to designers.
- Facilitate communication between designers, producers, artists, and engineers to ensure design vision and process are clearly defined and understood.
- Identify design solutions to evolve game meta and shape overall user experience.
- Interpret playtest feedback and disseminate actionable items to the design team.
- Be the bridge between the design and programming teams when it comes to interpreting design requirements for game features.
- Drive and follow-up on prototyping with other game designers and programmers.
- Active development towards improving the stability of the game through debugging and optimizing game logic/behaviour.
- Work with team members to support and share knowledge of UE4 features / tools.
- Encourage creativity through sharing ideas and creating content with team members.
- Manage team of designers through regular meetings, reviews, and mentoring sessions.
Requirements:
- Extensive experience in designing gameplay mechanics and features.
- Strong understanding of design principles and able to share this understanding with other designers.
- Have 7 years experience as a professional game designer
- Have shipped at least 1 title in a senior game designer capacity.
- Have excellent communication skills.
- Work well within a creative, fast paced team.
- Able to take and provide constructive feedback.
- Experience developing and maintaining a live product.
- Understand game design principles of shooters (either FPS or 3rd person)
Desirable Traits:
- Experience using UE4 Blueprints.
- Interest in shooters
- Experience with source control software (Perforce).
- Experience with task management software (Jira).
- Mentoring skills to enable the growth of young up and coming design talent.
- A champion eager to celebrate and share the achievements of their team and the studio.
- Self-motivated problem solver and solution-finder that removes roadblocks for their team.
- Able to work on the small day-to-day details of game production and on the big-picture and long-term goals and deadlines in the same day.
This is a full-time permanent position.
This role offers:
- Competitive salary
- Health and dental benefits
- Wellness spending account
- 3 weeks paid vacation and 2 weeks paid studio shutdown over the December holiday period
- Annual employee anniversary gifts
- Wonderful colleagues!
If you meet the above qualifications, and OWI sounds like the kind of company you want to be a part of, please apply now with a cover letter and a copy of your resume .
Offworld Industries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, language, citizenship, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, physical and/or mental handicap, financial ability or any other characteristic protected by law.