Lead Designer: Shape Bold Co-op & Open-World Games

Templar Media; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Templar Media in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Lead Designer to shape the complete player experience of our titles and to grow the design capabilities of the team.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of design experience, shipped titles in single and multiplayer, excels at cross‑functional collaboration, and isn’t afraid to push the envelope. This is a full‑time onsite role with a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• Lead Designer experience on at least one product from start to finish.
• Strong ability to coordinate and get the best out of a varied and diverse team of designers.
• At least 7 years of experience as a designer.
• Shipped title experience with both single player campaigns and multiplayer.
• Excellent design skills and thorough understanding of game design theory.
• Demonstrated ability and desire to “think outside the box”; challenge existing design paradigms.
• Ability to clearly articulate complicated systems to other team members and senior management.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills, leading to a demonstrated ability to work within a collaborative team structure.
• Minimum of 2 shipped products with design credit.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and refinement of game designs.
• Coordinate with the Game Director and Producer to help define scope, schedule design tasks and meet milestone demands.
• Perform ongoing design to iterate on, improve, and flesh out the game design throughout the development process from early design to post release add-ons.
• Work closely with the Lead Level Designer to manage the creation of levels.
• Work with all departments on the scheduling and integration of the game design, as well as game feature development goals and execution.
• Lead, coordinate and participate in collaborative efforts to implement and balance gameplay features, based on the design.
• Mentor the design team to grow their skill sets and capabilities.
• Establish and maintain best practices and processes for the design team, proactively improving how we do design.
• Maintain communications with all team members, team leads and executive management,internally and externally.
• Suggest and lead process improvement initiatives.

Skills

Lead Designer leadership

Team coordination

Game design

Communication

Design theory

Multiplayer design

Open-world design

Tools

Unreal Engine

Blueprint scripting

Job description

Templar Media in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Lead Designer to shape the complete player experience of our titles and to grow the design capabilities of the team.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of design experience, shipped titles in single and multiplayer, excels at cross‑functional collaboration, and isn’t afraid to push the envelope. This is a full‑time onsite role with a competitive salary and benefits.