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Principal Designer - Accessibility

Are you a Games Designer with a passion for accessibility and ensuring games can be enjoyed by everyone?

We are looking for someone like you to become our all-new Designer and join our passionate and talented team, where we are building on the years of success that Rebellion has enjoyed.

What you’ll be doing:

The Rebellion Design team designs, creates and maintains games from concept to shippable quality. Working closely with the other specialist teams to implement fun and immersive gameplay utilising the game mechanics.

This Designer role is a new role, created with accessibility at its heart. You will be an advocate for accessibility across all Rebellion projects, working as part of the design team to advise on accessibility and usability of our games, ensuring our games can be enjoyed by everyone. You’ll be a subject matter expert and point of contact for accessibility at Rebellion, liaising with accessibility experts, keeping up to date with changes and advancements in that area and advising on how we can implement accessible options into our games.

You’ll have a background in games design, understand the limitations of games and a passion for accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Design, and provide design support for, features and mechanics to make new and existing systems more accessible in new and in-development titles.
• Playtest and support the QA team to report back any accessibility concerns in games that are already in development.
• Be a subject matter expert and a point of contact for Rebellion on accessibility.
• Liaise with our partners to understand the latest developments in accessible options and have a strong understanding of how to implement these into games design.
• Conduct research on accessibility in the games industry and have a strong knowledge of developments and changes.
• Liaise with other specialisms within Rebellion to ensure accessible options can be created.
• Work with Leads and devs from other specialisms to determine training needs and allocate training.
• Be involved in projects as early as possible highlighting accessibility and advising of areas for improvement.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of creating game design documents and prototype specifications
• Expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / time-bound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction.
• Expert knowledge of production pipelines
• Proactively ensure the game design serves all audience’s of the game, and is accessible for all.

Benefits

• Holiday: 26 holiday days annually, increasing with service to 31 days, plus national public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance: Our PMI scheme offers comprehensive cover to access private medical treatment, taking the stress and strain out of waiting for treatments via the NHS
• Pension Contribution: Tax efficient salary sacrifice contributory pension scheme where Rebellion matches 4% of salary, plus 10% of any contribution you make
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Cash-back on treatment costs, from flu jabs to chiropractors
• Dental & Vision: Cash-back on routine or emergency costs, free eye tests
• Income Protection: Financial help if unable to work due to illness or injury
• Critical Illness: Financial help if diagnosed with critical illness
• Life Assurance: Financial security for your loved ones at a difficult time
• EAP: Wellbeing hub, including confidential telephone support and counselling
• Active Rewards: Earn discounts and other perks for physical activity, from trainers to cinema tickets
• Gym Membership: Discounts to over 3,000 participating UK gyms, pools & fitness events
• Loans: Interest free, tax-free loans
• Relocation: Assistance with relocation planning and costs
• Cycling Cycle Scheme: Save around 30% of the cost of a new bike and equipment though salary sacrifice tax & NI savings, spread repayments over 12 months
• Discounts: 50% off most 2000 AD merchandise, plus Active Rewards and more through health schemes, from high street retail to holidays
• Referral Bonus: Up to £2k bonus for internal staff referrals that lead to hires
• Flexible Hours: Flexible start and finish times
• Great Friendly Culture: Friendly, creative and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and recognition of the importance of work-life balance (anti-crunch)
• Social & Charity Events: Annual Summer BBQ & Christmas Party, social groups such as photography and board games, charity events including football, go-karting and supporting Special Effect
• Digital Freebies: GDC Vault access, all Rebellion Steam titles, digital copies of 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing comics, graphic novels and ebooks, physical game and film libraries

About Us:

Rebellion is a leading developer and publisher of games, and is also one of Europe’s biggest independent studios operating across books, comics, TV and film. Our Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 35 million players worldwide. The Zombie Army franchise is a spine-chilling zombie shooter, and the recently released Evil Genius 2 is a satirical spy-fi lair builder where YOU are the criminal mastermind!

And those are just the projects you know about – there are loads more!

Diversity and Inclusion at Rebellion

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to develop a 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 would like to invite all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neuro-diversity and beyond because we believe a representative team makes better games and provides a better working life.