Lead Gameplay Designer

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As Lead Gameplay Designer, you will lead the gameplay design team, focusing on character-driven gameplay systems. You will establish and maintain design processes, ensuring high-quality and timely work. Responsibilities include smooth communication with stakeholders, developing the team's skills, managing performance reviews, and handling tasks and bugs. You will also deputize for the Design Director when needed. The role involves working on AAA character-driven systems and requires excellent communication skills, a team-player attitude, a good understanding of technical considerations, and a passion for video games.
Must have:
  • Experience in AAA character-driven gameplay systems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • A flexible, team-player attitude
  • Good understanding of technical considerations
  • A genuine passion for video games

Job Details

Playground Games is looking for a Lead Gameplay Designer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis.

About us:

As a first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about making genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. We are excited to be rebooting the much-loved Fable franchise and are expanding our diverse team to create a new classic in the action RPG genre.

About the role:

As Lead Gameplay Designer you will develop and lead the gameplay design team, working on character driven gameplay systems.

This is a permanent role based in our state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa. We have a hybrid work model in place with a minimum of 3 days a week in the studio. Relocation assistance is available if required.   

What you’ll do:

  • Establish, maintain, and evolve design processes while ensuring gameplay design work is completed on time and to a high-quality standard. 
  • Ensure that the communication between the Gameplay Design team and other stakeholders is smooth and efficient.
  • Develop the skills and talent of the Gameplay Design team, carrying performance reviews and owning line management duties.
  • Be responsible for the tasks and bugs of the Gameplay Design team, and work with other stakeholders to help define and prioritize them.
  • Deputize for the Design Director, when required.

What you’ll bring:

  • Proven success working on AAA character-driven gameplay systems such as locomotion, combat, camera, and AI.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • A flexible, highly-motivated, team-player attitude.
  • A good understanding of technical considerations, with the ability to communicate with technical team members.
  • A genuine passion for video games.   

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a world-class game with an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry’s most exciting first-party game studios.

Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity.  We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment.   

We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members.  It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players.  We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  

At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work. 

If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com 

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About The Company

At Playground Games, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and welcoming environment where anyone from any background can do their best work. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our players.

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