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Ready At Dawn is looking for a Senior Game Designer to join us in creating a co-op action-adventure VR title set in a brand new universe. Game Designers collaborate with Design, Engineering, Art, and Production teams to guide the creation of new features, gameplay sequences, and sometimes even workflows for the content and systems they build. An ideal candidate is a self-starting problem-solver with proven skills in game design and communication, possessing past experience prototyping, building, scripting, and debugging shippable gameplay.

Senior Game Designer - Ready at Dawn Responsibilities

  • Work hand-in-hand with other developers to prototype gameplay concepts and bring them to shippable quality
  • Design, implement, iterate, prove out, and balance diverse gameplay systems
  • Discuss design concepts at a high level and at a low level, in both formal and impromptu settings
  • Connect high level game design goals to specific, implementable mechanics and sequences that will deliver the desired gameplay experience
  • Plan and specify progression and tuning values to deliver on game pacing goals over time
  • Create and maintain design documentation to share ideas, concepts, and specifications in clear, concise formats
  • Anticipate problems, prioritize tasks, and organize collaborators to meet project objectives and deadlines
  • Develop mastery of our in-house tools and modified Unreal engine
  • Stay up-to-date on trends, technologies, and innovations in the game industry in order to solve design and implementation problems in our own games

Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience as a game designer, with a history that includes some pre-production experience and at least one game/major-release in a game design role
  • Experience communicating with collaborators across multiple disciplines to execute on designs
  • Experience prioritizing feedback from leads, peers, and playtesters to iterate and improve on designs
  • Experience analyzing best practices and specifying gameplay systems based on specific game design goals
  • Experience working both independently and as part of a team
  • Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Up-to-date knowledge of game mechanics in the current highest-rated titles in the action/adventure genre
  • Intermediate knowledge of some industry scripting tools
  • Interest or existing experience in VR

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$112,000/year to $161,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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