Senior Gameplay Designer

2 Months ago • 5 Years + • Game Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Epic Games seeks a Senior Gameplay Designer to lead the development of new islands, experiences, and templates for Fortnite Creative and UEFN. Collaborating with internal and external teams, this role involves crafting design visions, documentation, and implementation. Responsibilities include liaising with partners, participating in big-picture decisions, driving iterative prototyping, and attending playtests. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of game design experience, a passion for online games, strong player empathy, and understanding of the full game development lifecycle. Technical prototyping skills in Unreal or UEFN are essential.
Must have:
  • 5+ years game design experience shipping multiple titles
  • Passion for online game design across genres
  • Deep understanding of player motivations and gameplay
  • Understanding of global popular culture and fandom
  • Knowledge of the full game development process
  • Technical prototyping (Unreal or UEFN)
  • Exceptional communication skills
Good to have:
  • Level design skills
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability & life insurance
  • 401k with competitive match
  • Mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

DESIGN

What We Do

Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Senior Gameplay Designer to oversee the development of new islands, experiences, and templates in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to design, develop, and implement island experiences and content to delight players and help us inspire creators working in Fortnite Creative and UEFN. This role is open to multiple locations: Europe (UK/London preferred) and North America (EST) and will require occasional travel to both Europe and the US.

In this role, you will

  • Craft and drive the design vision, documentation, and implementation for multiple island experiences in collaboration with Gameplay Designers, Product Managers, and Design Leadership
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to drive development forward, being a vision holder for overall publishing efforts
  • Liaise with external partners to identify the creative direction for their presence in the ecosystem, ensuring that they are kept informed and involved with design decisions
  • Actively participate in big-picture decisions and work with other designers to focus on the right elements to achieve inspiring results
  • Drive collaborative and iterative prototyping, both paper-based and in-game
  • Attend playtests, provide feedback, and identify practical solutions to problems

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience shipping multiple titles as a Game Designer
  • Passion for and experience designing online games with a wide breadth of game knowledge across genres
  • Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of goal setting on play
  • Understanding of and enthusiasm for global popular culture and ability to empathize with fans of any fandom
  • Understanding of the full game development process from ideation, pre-production, and production through to shipping the final product
  • Broad knowledge spanning multiple areas of Game Design, able to confidently engage on a variety of complex topics across design
  • Technical prototyping ability in-engine, preferably Unreal or UEFN. Level design skills a plus
  • Familiarity and interest in Fortnite and the evolving creator and UGC space within UEFN
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to fully own the outcome of a cross-discipline team

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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