Senior Technical Game Designer (Project Hire)

We are looking for hardworking, Senior Technical Game Designer to focus on creating systems, mechanics, prototypes, workflows and pipelines. You will work with experienced developers to push innovation, agency, quality, and fidelity for next-gen gameplay and storytelling. 

Responsibilities:  

• As part of a highly skilled team that believes in self-sufficiency, the Senior Technical Designer’s responsibilities will include creating new mechanics, systems, event scripting, and interactive objects. 
• Design, prototype, and implement gameplay systems from the ground up, while extending and iterating on existing systems to deliver a polished, high-quality player experience. 
• Work with engineering, animation and design teams to implement content, solve workflow issues, and create content pipelines. 
• We believe in ownership, so the more of your vision that you can prototype and execute with your own skills, the better.  
• We also believe in open communication and collaboration – use your skills to communicate your vision to the rest of the team and get all the departments pumped to collaborate with you!  
• You will also work with producers to plan out and prioritize your development schedule. Know what the most important parts of your design are and have plans to reduce scope if something takes longer than expected.  

Requirements & Skills:  

• Extensive knowledge of Unreal engine and Blueprints. 
• Experience with text based scripting and programming languages (eg. XML, PERL, C++) 
• Knowledge of and interest in the type of game we are making. 
• Knowledge of art packages such as Maya, Max, and the Adobe suite a plus. 

Qualities:  

• Have a cinematic eye! Conceptualize and pitch game systems and mechanics. Communicate clearly and visually to the Directors and the team. 
• Have ownership of your content. Once design have been approved, the Senior Technical Game Designer will be responsible for these features to ship.  
• Be creative. We don’t want to micromanage. Nothing makes us happier than seeing you prototype ideas we would have never conceptualized.  
• Be proactive. Don’t wait to be assigned a task – pitch concepts that you believe will make the game better and pitch them regularly.  
• Be a generalist. Learn whatever skills will help you complete your vision. From making prototype assets, to animation, VFX, mocap, audio, etc – a designer is a versatile person. You will have stellar artists and engineers to help you, but the more you can present a singular vision to us with your prototype work, the more excited we will get about it!  
• Be responsible. You will be checking in script and level content without review. It’s your job not to break the build 

(This is a temporary “Project Hire” position. The anticipated duration of this assignment will vary. TNM Project Hire employees will be eligible to participate in a number of TNM benefit plans such as medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, and flexible PTO)

TNM considers a number of factors when determining each role's base pay range, including industry benchmarks, location, experience, and other job specific skills. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for other incentive compensation including equity and profit share. The estimated base pay range for this role is U.S. only and not applicable for locations outside of the U.S.

The estimated base pay range for this role is: $125,000 - $165,000