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Lead Technical Designer, Remote - United Kingdom
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Summary
The job is for a Lead Technical Designer at d3t or Coconut Lizard studios. The role involves managing tech designers, creating tools, tuning variables, mentoring, documenting, communicating with clients, and participating in decision-making processes. The company offers benefits such as flexible working hours, private medical and dental insurance, employee share scheme, anti-crunch ethos, income protection & life assurance, annual bonus, free parking, game vouchers, tech and bike scheme, company socials, monthly studio lunches, project launch/wrap parties, annual d3t events, breakout areas with perks, and a flexible working policy.
Requirements
- 6+ years in a Senior or Lead Tech Designer role on at least two AAA titles
- A good understanding of the concepts which go into programming which are relevant to scripting languages and scripting editors
- Confident use in using an editor, such as Unreal 4/5 or Unity
- Experience of a proprietary engine
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to enable effective communication between Design and Engineering teams
- Experience with tools and visual scripting editors such as Blueprints
- Experience with high level languages such as python, Lua, or scripting languages embedded into engines
- Excellent ability to organize and structure your own work and that of the team (follow ups, control, schedule)
- Interpersonal skills to mentor and develop individuals within a team
- Client focus (internal and external)
- Strong analytical skills
- Reliable and responsible and thrives as part of a team
- Possess a passion for making games, alongside being hungry to learn and expand your areas of expertise
- Ability to adapt to changing situations with a flexible and professional attitude
Responsibilities
- Effectively carry out line-management duties for tech designers in your charge, including career progression, mentoring, reviews, discipline and others when necessary
- Review and feedback latest build to ensure that it conforms with the development requirements of the game
- Create, or facilitate the creation of tools for other designers to use
- Tune and expose variables that can be modified at either run-time or in data, to capture the ‘game feel’ element
- Use your experience to enact positive change within the tech design team, contributing to the game design and features to inspire and guide the other tech designers
- Mentor others, bring your experience to bear, and help steer the department’s direction
- Create and maintain accurate, succinct, and informative documentation to communicate concepts, objectives etc
- Communicate with clients to ensure all parties have full awareness of current and projected objectives, difficulties, and deadlines
- Take part in discussions with prospective clients regarding potential projects
- Liaise with the Production team to assess progress towards short- and long-term objectives
- Liaise with other discipline leads and seniors to maintain awareness of progress and impediments
- Actively participate in the decision-making process with management and oversee the necessary adjustments to ensure that the game meets expectations
- Promote and build a strong cooperative culture between disciplines
- Participate in the selection, on-boarding and mentoring of team members
- Create a work environment that is motivating for team members and which fosters development and creation
- Carry out all other related tasks for the department
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supervising a design team
- Experience using perforce, merging code – submitting / undoing work
- Knowledge of how to use Visual Studio or other development environments
- Understanding of object-orientated development, memory management
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays + up to 5 days extra for length of service)
- Company Pension Scheme
- Flexible working hours
- Private Medical and Dental Insurance Scheme & Eye Care Scheme
- Employee Share Scheme
- Anti-crunch ethos - an amazingly professional, fun and supportive working environment!
- Income Protection & Life Assurance
- Annual bonus
- Free parking
- Game vouchers
- Tech and bike scheme
- Company socials, monthly studio lunches, project launch/wrap parties
- Breakout areas – filled with perks such as games, BBQ area, complimentary snacks to suit all dietary preferences etc
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