Lead Designer, Activity

Lead Designer, Activity

Overview
The Lead Activity Designer will spearhead the design and implementation of compelling activities to entertain and challenge the players. You will collaborate closely with the Game Director and Design Director to create a player-driven open world that feels fresh and relevant for many years to come, leveraging both systemic and scripted content.

Responsibilities

Vision and Documentation

Understand the game’s intended position in the market and design towards those goals

Articulate a compelling vision for gameplay activities, socialize that vision, and get buy-in from stakeholders

Maintain useful and accurate documentation of designs

Collaboration

Work in tandem with the Lead World Designer to integrate game activities seamlessly into the level design

Take feedback and direction from the Design Director

Collaborate with other design leads to achieve a cohesive experience

Balance the needs of design with those of art, engineering, and production

Leadership and Management

As the project scales, build and lead a world‑class team of activity designers

Mentor and manage the career growth of more junior activity designers

Design and Implementation of Activities

Repeatable, open-world activities that scale from few to many players

Scripted, narrative-driven activities

Pinnacle activities that challenge coordinated groups of dedicated players

Limited-time activities for calendar-based events

Playtesting, Maintenance, and Tuning

Conduct regular playtests of game activities, translate playtest feedback into appropriate actions for the current phase of development

Maintain game activities in the live service, fixing bugs, and tuning when necessary

Qualifications

10+ years’ design experience

5+ years in a leadership role

3+ years' experience as a people-manager in the design discipline

Shipped 1+ live-service multiplayer title(s) in a design leadership role

Shipped 1+ action title(s) in a design leadership role

Designed and implemented 1+ "endgame" activities for a live-service title

Passion for online RPGs

Nice-to-Haves

UE5 expertise

C++ and/or scripting experience

Knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies

Any analytical framework that you can leverage in the design space (from economics to hermeneutics, anything that helps you think about design in a useful way)

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