Unreal: Technical Gameplay Designer – Prototyping & MP

Bilinguallink; Pointe-Claire; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Total Rewards

Flexible Time Off

Growth

Connection

Job summary

Final Strike Games is seeking a Technical Gameplay Designer to help craft engaging gameplay and AAA user experiences in Unreal Engine 5. You will rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship features with a cross-disciplinary team in a remote Canada setting.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of game design, shipped titles on PC/console, and strong communication skills. Knowledge of Gameplay Ability System, AI, and multiplayer networking is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of game design experience.
• Designed, developed, and shipped 2+ titles on PC or Console.
• Unreal Engine 4/5 knowledge and experience, including usage of the Gameplay Ability System.
• Experience developing core mechanics for a variety of game experiences.
• Excellent communicator who can take feedback and direction well and is willing to learn and teach others.
• The ability to sell, present, and talk through your design thinking, game mechanics and overall design goals to all levels of management.
• Able to develop and champion a strong design vision for a game system from concept to completion.
• Strong ability to quickly analyze and adapt designs to continuously improve them.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new tools, technologies, and development methodologies.
• Deep knowledge of the current state of the art for gameplay systems designs.

Responsibilities

• Execute across all stages of development: from verbal ideas to paper sketches to feature documentation and in-game implementation.
• Rapidly iterate on playable prototypes in UE5.
• Own design features and drive them forward.
• Work closely with a cross-disciplinary team of engineering, art, and production.
• Implement assets in-engine and manage files through source control.
• Work with the stakeholders to understand project goals, priorities, and vision.
• Write & maintain design documentation and processes for owned features & work as needed.
• Frequently manage JIRA items for owned features & work.
• Participate in playtests to collect feedback and create action items for owned feature teams.
• Identify and fix Design bugs.

Skills

Game design

Unreal Engine

Gameplay Ability System

Prototype iteration

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Unreal Engine 4/5

Job description

Final Strike Games is seeking a Technical Gameplay Designer to help craft engaging gameplay and AAA user experiences in Unreal Engine 5. You will rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship features with a cross-disciplinary team in a remote Canada setting.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of game design, shipped titles on PC/console, and strong communication skills. Knowledge of Gameplay Ability System, AI, and multiplayer networking is highly valued.