Lead Combat Designer

• Define and drive the player sandbox design principles to create a whole new combat space.
• Help set the direction for extensible combat systems and player mastery.
• Work closely with the Leadership Team to achieve experience goals.
• Help build compelling second-to-second gameplay experiences
• Collaboratively plan, design, and evaluate top notch abilities gameplay
• Work with audio, effects, and animation developers to make in-game sandbox affordances clear to players

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Previous experience as a Combat Designer on a AAA or large-scale mobile game
• Experience designing, documenting, and building game feel systems with a focus on mechanics and philosophies that drive it
• Intuitive understanding of how second-to-second action games work and why people play them
• Excitement for collaboration with designers, artists, programmers, audio professionals, quality assurance and producers to achieve a common goal
• Ability to creatively align with the team and then take initiative locally and externally
• Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams
• Ability to handle ambiguity, including giving and handling feedback despite that ambiguity

• Experience in Animation; able to talk anticipation, follow through, character and timing
• Experience designing, documenting, and building weapon systems, damage systems, abilities, or any other sandbox system on any scale
• Portfolio demonstrating the drive to make great feeling action gameplay
• People management experience
• Discipline-leadership experience
• Experience successfully leading interdisciplinary teams through several game development cycles
• Experience hiring, training, mentoring, and managing peer and junior designers