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Senior / Expert / Principal Level Designer

Location: Work from home or in-house from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

Level: Senior, Expert, Principal

About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.

Your Role: Design and build gameplay experiences that take players on an unforgettable journey.

Requirements

Your Skill: This is a fully hands-on role using Unreal Engine. You will take ideas, concepts, research, and story beats and proactively build compelling and ambitious gameplay prototypes. You will use your considerable experience to develop the strongest ideas alongside art, audio and code into compelling playable content. You will coordinate with a cross-discipline team to craft these into fully polished experiences that are robust, original, and world-class. You can also mentor a team of more junior designers in the pursuit of those same goals.

Your Experience: You are evangelical about the player experience and have played a hands-on role in designing levels and playable content on highly acclaimed character-action games. You also have a passion for narrative and characters, and you understand how to make gameplay that feels cinematic while still being interactive. You have several games under your belt as a Senior or Lead Designer, or as a Game or Creative Director. You are demonstrably an expert in Unreal Engine (or similar), have competent scripting skills and good experience in other art, design, editing and layout tools. Complementary experience in film, animation, writing or similar is desirable but not essential.

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. For those based in the studio, we offer complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm? We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

Our Process: We are an equal opportunity employer. Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is a crucial and permanent part of our business strategy. To help us ensure a fully equal, diverse and inclusive working environment, we carry out anonymised screening. Our anonymised screening automatically obscures your personal information from your application and encourages a more inclusive hiring process by mitigating unconscious bias from the start.

Where possible, we kindly ask that you submit anonymised reels/portfolios to support our ED&I commitments.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.

Please note, this advert closes on Tuesday 12th October