Game Designer, Activities

What You’ll Do
Epic Games is looking for a Gameplay Designer to help create compelling gameplay experiences across combat, progression, systems, moment‑to‑moment mechanics, and live gameplay content for our collaboration with Disney. In this role, you’ll partner closely with design leadership, art, engineering, animation, UX, audio, production, and QA to deliver high‑quality features from concept through ship.

You will own and iterate on gameplay systems, mechanics, and content while balancing player experience, readability, accessibility, engagement, and long‑term retention. The ideal candidate is highly collaborative, deeply player‑focused, and comfortable working in a fast‑paced cross‑disciplinary environment where iteration and feedback are core to development.

Work in close collaboration with project leads and directors to design, prototype, tune, and ship features and systems that support the engagement, gameplay, and creative vision of the project

Document and create clear, actionable design documents, and iterate on these features, working with a team of developers across multiple disciplines, and oversee their successful implementation from start to finish

Get hands‑on creating the scripting, data, and content required by those features, diving into the engine, and leveraging other tools

Be responsible for soliciting and rapidly integrating feedback from across the team on your own initiative, ensuring we’re continually delivering a fun and fresh experience to our players

Help establish and maintain design pipelines, best practices, and cross‑discipline communication standards to scope, prioritize deliverables, and hit milestone goals

What We’re Looking For

5+ years of experience shipping first or third‑person shooter titles as a Gameplay Designer, working on itemization, gameplay systems, combat, ability systems, features, and content

Strong scripting and technical capabilities; bonus points if you have experience with Unreal Engine and the Ability System

Experience working on live‑service multiplayer environments

Demonstrated talent and a deep understanding of gameplay feel, player motivations or intent, gameplay mechanics, weapon/itemization use, and combat systems contributing to delivering the most emergent player experience

Ability to break down high‑level creative direction into actionable gameplay features and production‑ready tasks

Ability to work independently, take initiative, and react quickly to changing project needs, drive decisions, and then own the outcome and vision

Commitment to quality, rapid iteration, and delivering exceptional player experiences

Benefits
Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, and a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well‑being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company‑wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer.

Recruitment Agency Note
Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) and will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party.

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