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Senior Systems Designer (Action Shooter)

A visionary game development studio founded in 2012, Firesprite builds innovative showcase titles for PlayStation platforms as part of the PlayStation Studios family.

Would you enjoy the freedom to create AAA games working from anywhere in the UK, including our Liverpool studio?

We are looking for a Senior Systems Designer ground-breaking next generation PvP shooter project with a Games as a Service focus. This is a AAA quality original IP at an exciting stage! Working with a cross-discipline team, you will often be the product owner for features and systems that must fit perfectly into the game. The opportunity is to join at the earliest stages of a multi-year development and help shape an incredible new game experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Imagining innovative and exciting new meta game systems and documenting their aspects
• Examining other successful titles’ meta game and service plans and finding out what makes them tick
• Creating a comprehensive meta system that flows from season to season, keeping players engaged
• Imagining and crafting a meta game that players enjoy from moment to moment; through session to session on to season to season
• Taking these systems through documentation, prototype, and full production on to servicing and evolution
• Tuning and balancing the meta, objectives and systems to ensure the best gameplay, retention and engagement possible, using Unreal Engine and data gained from play
• Owning core game features and working with cross-discipline teams to deliver AAA quality
• Accurately planning your work
• Assisting junior members of the design team

Requirements

• Ability to deliver high-quality work, with very little guidance from others
• Exceptional creativity and design skills
• Love of multiplayer action games
• Great knowledge of meta game systems and a passion and drive to evolve core concepts and drive service forward into something new and exciting
• Energetic and positive attitude
• Passionate about delivering the very best player experience
• Pro-active communication
• Strong knowledge of at least 1 industry-standard engine, ideally Unreal 4
• Working knowledge of Agile development
• Significant professional game development experience with an impressive portfolio

Benefits

• Private Healthcare Plan
• Bonus Scheme
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance
• Pension Plans
• Work remotely within the UK
• Training & Development
• Employee Assistance Programme - Counselling

Firesprite is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We welcome and encourage applications from all suitable applicants regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.