Lead Game Designer

Templar Media; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Professional but non-corporate environment

Job summary

Templar Media in Alpharetta, GA is looking for a Lead Designer to shape player experiences and enhance a talented design team's capabilities. You will oversee game design processes, mentor team members, and collaborate with various departments to create best-in-class gameplay features.

The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience, can lead a diverse team, and pushes innovative design solutions. Templar offers a competitive salary and benefits, plus a professional yet non-corporate work environment.

Qualifications

• Lead Designer experience on at least one product from start to finish.
• Strong ability to coordinate a diverse team of designers.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a designer.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and refinement of game designs.
• Coordinate with the Game Director and Producer to define scope.
• Mentor the design team to grow their skill sets.

Skills

Game design ability

Leadership

Communication skills

Tools

Unreal Engine 4/5

Job description

About the Role

• As Lead Designer you will have the opportunity to shape the complete player experience of Templar games and to grow the design capabilities of a great design team even further.
• The Lead Designer should have excellent game design ability in both single and multiplayer and be a proven leader.
• Finally, the perfect candidate will be a designer that doesn’t accept the status quo and is willing to push the envelope in their designs and try new things.

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.

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”; when designing, challenge existing design paradigms, and push the envelope of design.
• Ability to clearly articulate complicated systems to other team members and senior management.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, leading to a demonstrated ability to work within a collaborative team structure.
• Minimum of 2 shipped products with design credit.

Preferred Qualifications

• Unreal Engine 4/5 experience.
• Experience with both single-player and multiplayer gameplay design.
• Experience with open‑world or co‑op game design.
• Experience with combat and stealth game design.
• Familiarity with mission, quest, or dialogue systems.
• Understanding of Unreal’s Blueprint system and scripting workflows.
• A love of games, especially action‑adventure and cooperative titles.

Benefits

• Templar offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
• A professional but non‑corporate environment.

Location & Employment

This position is full‑time onsite at our studio in Alpharetta, GA.