Senior Technical Game Designer

Company Description

People Can Fly is a leading independent AAA game development studio. Our international team consists of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices in Poland, the UK, Ireland, the US, and Canada, as well as remotely across the globe.

Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. As one of the most experienced studios in the industry, we continue to expand our expertise and push the boundaries of what’s possible in game development.

Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles developed in collaboration with leading publishers, as well as original projects under our self-publishing model. We are also exploring new platforms and experiences, including VR and other unannounced projects.

With over 20 years of experience, People Can Fly continues to explore new horizons. We aim to combine our expertise with the creativity of the best and most forward-thinking talent in the industry, building the next generation of action games for players worldwide.

Job Description

Main Goal of the Role

To create, implement and maintain system design elements, tools and workflows for dedicated level design team.

Duties

• Assigns, delegates, and supports individuals in their tasks, monitoring and reviewing the progress of their work.
• Provides constructive feedback and clear communications to enhance mission gameplay in levels, ease integration workload, ensuring a continuous improvement approach.
• Takes responsibility for evaluating their direct reports during periodic performance reviews, providing valuable insights and assessments toward their career development.
• Fosters an engaging atmosphere within their team, as well as ensuring a healthy work-life balance by setting clear expectations and scope of work, empowering individuals to propose solutions, and express their opinions. Utilizes data such as pulse checks and satisfaction scores.
• Collaborates and communicates effectively with other Leads, Directors, departments and project stakeholders on a continuous basis in order to notably build trust and work toward the project’s objectives and ambitions.
• Follows the Director’s guidance/vision and implements it. Contributes to the Director’s direction by providing important data, raising issues, seeking advice and relays them to relevant project leaders.
• Provide mentorship, troubleshooting, debugging and problem-solving assistance to members of the level design and tech level design team.
• Work with production teams on tasks assignment and a team schedule.
• Provide day-to-day feedback and creatively solve problems.
• To establish co-operation with Combat and Level Designers and maintain standards of Level design documentation.
• Is accountable for making sure the Level Design team can efficiently maintain a balance between the creative vision for the project and the technical budget restraints provided by the Technical Director by acting as a technical reference for the team in relation to level design.
• Proactively identify cross-discipline challenges and risks to the project and offer solutions.
• Manage or supervise work of established Strike Teams.
• Supervision of bugfixing and describing case studies in the knowledge base.
• Conduct recruitment projects with HR collaboration.
• Set up onboarding standards in co-operation with Combat and Level Design leads.
• Occasionally can take part in onboarding new hires.

Collaboration within the studio: Production, Art, Environment Art, Meshers, Programmers, Design (Game/Combat/Tech), QA, HR

Qualifications

Experience

• Typically 7+ years including prior experience in any leadership capacity.
• Typically at least 2 successfully shipped AAA games on PC or console.

Must-have Qualifications

• Strong Leadership and mentoring skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Strong problem solving and trouble-shooting skills.
• Great understanding of creative and game development processes.
• Experience with text-based and visual scripting systems.
• Proficiency with Atlassian software (JIRA, Confluence).
• Self-motivation.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Experience with multiple different 3D engines.
• Experience in the design of tools and workflows.
• Interdisciplinary experience, generalist approach.
• Scripting experience with Python.
• Knowledge of Maya, 3DS Max, or similar 3D package. (strong preference)

Additional Information

In Canada

• Benefit package 100% paid by PCF. Insurance company reimburses 100% of claims (Up to $1000 per service a year, as well as individual family coverage).
• Full Dental coverage, including major dental and orthodontics.
• 4% RRSP matching before tax deductions, 100% vested on day 1.
• Paid week off during Winter Holidays.
• 20 paid vacation days and 5 paid sick days.
• Free virtual health and mental wellbeing sessions included in the plan for members and their dependents.
• Personal development opportunities and ability to work in a global environment.
• Work in a creative team with people full of passion for what they do.