Design Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with project leadership and publishing stakeholders to articulate, strengthen, and implement the creative vision, ensuring cohesion across narrative, gameplay, art, audio, and presentation.

• Spearhead the development of the game's narrative, characters, investigative gameplay, and environmental storytelling, ensuring all components contribute to a unified and memorable player experience.

• Guide, mentor, and support the design team, cultivating a robust design culture centered on quality, teamwork, and accountability.

• Work closely with engineering, art, audio, and production teams to establish effective workflows, drive implementation, and ensure alignment as the project progresses.

• Offer clear creative direction and feedback, assisting in translating high-level vision into refined, shippable content while upholding quality and consistency throughout the game.

• Detect creative risks, narrative voids, and production challenges early on, collaborating with discipline leads to balance creative aspirations with scope, schedule, and technical limitations.

• Engage hands-on in writing, narrative implementation, game design, prototyping, and content development as necessary, helping to remove obstacles for the team and advance key features through critical milestones.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in game development, including at least 5 years in a creative leadership, narrative leadership, or senior design position.

• Practical experience in developing content using Unreal Engine 5, with proficiency in utilizing in-engine tools and workflows for prototyping, implementing, iterating, and refining gameplay features.

• Experience in shipping at least one narrative-driven or creatively ambitious game, holding significant responsibility for story, gameplay, or overall creative direction.

• A strong grasp of interactive storytelling, narrative pacing, player agency, and the synergy between gameplay and presentation in crafting engaging player experiences.

• Demonstrated ability to provide creative direction, review content, and ensure quality and consistency across a multidisciplinary team.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of aligning design, narrative, engineering, art, audio, and production around a common creative vision.

• Comfortable in contributing hands-on to writing, narrative implementation, game design, prototyping, or content development while balancing creative aspirations with scope, schedule, and technical constraints.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.