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Responsibilities

• Be responsible for leading and managing a team of game designers, mentoring individuals and providing effective coaching to support their growth.
• Lead and support a team through ideation into detailed design, all while navigating challenges to work collaboratively towards a great creative execution.
• Work with the Creative Director and the Sea of Thieves leadership team to identify new creative opportunities and strategies that deliver delightful new experiences for players.
• Represent the vision for the features you create, build confidence across the team and be responsible for pushing these features forward.
• Deliver features that work harmoniously with the wider Sea of Thieves gameplay experience and established lore/worldbuilding.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Sea of Thieves and its community.
• Experience of leading and mentoring a design team in the creation of new experiences.
• The ability to work alongside other discipline leads, owning entire game experiences and how they are implemented.
• Strong, proven design experience, especially in moment-to-moment mechanics and game systems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey your ideas and plans to a multi-disciplinary team in a way that inspires and excites.
• Experience of writing thorough and detailed design specs that allow the team to understand your designs.
• Equally comfortable expressing bold ideas and designs on paper, on whiteboards or in an editor.
• The ability to demonstrate a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges inherent to shared-world multiplayer game design.
• An appreciation of and interest in prototyping and the advantages it brings.
• The ability to iterate on your ideas quickly to identify the best solutions.

• Experience with Unreal Blueprint or other relevant scripting systems.
• Experience of working in Unreal in a practical, hands-on role.

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