Directeur du design / Design Director Quebec, Canada

2K Games, Inc.; Quebec; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Gearbox Entertainment Company is seeking a senior game designer to define gameplay vision and lead design efforts for flagship projects. You will collaborate with Creative Directors, designers, and engineers to refine core pillars and gameplay loops, while driving quality through in-engine iteration.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience shipping multiplatform titles, strong leadership, and deep knowledge of action games and Unreal Engine 4/5.

Qualifications

• 15 years of experience as a designer in the video game industry.
• Shipped multiple multiplatform titles from pre-production to certification, including in leadership roles.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5.

Responsibilities

• Define the gameplay vision in partnership with the Creative Director to leverage the project's core pillars.
• Work closely with game designers and other project directors to refine and improve game systems, including 3Cs, combat, artificial intelligence, weapons, character skills, power growth and environmental interactions.
• Communicate the design direction clearly and concisely to all project team members and partners.
• Provide clear feedback to the team to foster a culture of quality and accountability.
• Actively contribute to the project's development by working directly in-engine.
• Collaborate with project leadership to establish the project scope and priorities.
• Guide, inspire, and support multidisciplinary teams throughout the project.

Skills

15+ years design

Tools

Unreal Engine 4/5

Job description

Qualifications

Who We Are

The Gearbox Entertainment Company is home to a world-class team that entertains the world with award-winning and genre-defining video games. Our games are entrenched with rich universes that are expanded upon via transmedia storytelling, live experiences, and consumer products. Gearbox Entertainment has become widely known for developing successful game franchises such as Borderlands, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and Brothers in Arms, as well for continued development of acquired properties including Duke Nukem, Risk of Rain, and Homeworld.

The company was founded as Gearbox Software in 1999 by a team of industry veterans and is headquartered in Frisco, Texas. The Gearbox Entertainment Company is proud to be part of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).

For more information, visit www.GearboxSoftware.com.

What We Are Looking For

Define the gameplay vision in partnership with the Creative Director to leverage the project's core pillars.

Responsibilities

Define the gameplay vision in partnership with the Creative Director to leverage the project's core pillars.

Work closely with game designers and other project directors to refine and improve game systems, including 3Cs, combat, artificial intelligence, weapons, character skills, power growth and environmental interactions.

Communicate the design direction clearly and concisely to all project team members and partners.

Provide clear feedback to the team to foster a culture of quality and accountability.

Actively contribute to the project's development by working directly in-engine.

Collaborate with project leadership to establish the project scope and priorities.

Guide, inspire, and support multidisciplinary teams throughout the project.

Qualifications

Experience

15 years of experience as a designer in the video game industry.

Shipped multiple multiplatform titles from pre-production to certification, including in leadership roles.

Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or 5.

Action Games Expert

Deep knowledge of action games, particularly shooters.

Can clearly analyse and articulate complex mechanics, systems, and game loops.

Sets the project's quality standard and a clear-cut design direction.

Servant-Leader Mindset

Supports the design team by actively removing production roadblocks, including making calls to keep the team moving forward.

Encourages autonomy and trusts the expertise of senior designers.

Maintains a flat, collaborative management style rather than top-down direction.

Hands-on Approach

Desires to maintain direct ownership of specific design tasks.

Builds, iterates, and polishes features and data sets directly in-engine.

Other Requirements

Fully bilingual (fluent in both French and English).

• Willing and able to come into the Montreal or Quebec Studio.

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Gearbox Entertainment is committed to ensuring that all team members work in an environment free from discrimination and harassment, and one that reflects the diversity of the world it strives to entertain. As an equal opportunity employer, Gearbox Entertainment does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, or genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Gearbox Entertainment is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals to participate in the job application process, to perform the essential functions of a job, and to enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment equal to those enjoyed by individuals without disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point during the job application process, please contact us for more information.

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