OtherSide Entertainment’s co-founders, Paul Neurath and Warren Spector, pioneered the immersive genre with games such as Ultima Underworld

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Lead Game Designer - Thick As Thieves

Senior DevOps Engineer

Lead Game Designer for "Thick as Thieves," a next-generation stealth-action multiplayer PvPvE game.  Responsibilities include leading a design team, owning the game design document (GDD), managing direct reports, mentoring designers, and collaborating with various teams (production, marketing, QA).  The role requires proven experience leading design on a successful multiplayer PC/console game, Unreal Engine 5 experience, and strong people management skills. The successful candidate will champion player experience, roadmap future development, participate in prototyping, and represent the game internally and externally.  This is a remote role with travel for events.

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 <h2 dir="ltr">The Opportunity</h2>We are developing a next-generation immersive stealth-action game, Thick as Thieves, with gameplay focused around multiplayer PvPvE.&nbsp; The game is well along in development and has received keen early interest:We are seeking a talented and proven Lead Game Designer to lead the design team on Thick as Thieves, our stealth-action Multiplayer PvPvE game. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in building and launching a major new PC and Console game and be a part of moving the stealth-action genre forward.Recent experience with a commercially successful and well-regarded multiplayer PC or Console game is a must-have, as is hands-on experience with Unreal engine.&nbsp; This position reports into the Game Director. <h2 dir="ltr">What You’ll Do</h2>Working closely with our Game Director, Lead Producer, and project leads, you will lead a team of game designers across a variety of multi-disciplinary feature teams. You will help to ideate, document, and implement opportunities to improve the game’s delivery on its core vision and player promise, align with and become the champion for the solution space for our game and its players, always keeping the quality of player experience at the front of your mind. As a key creative leader, you will also be expected to cheerlead for design, and align stakeholders around the design team’s approaches and solutions as part of keeping everyone moving in the same direction. <ul>
<li dir="ltr">Own the GDD for the game, including managing team ownership of respective areas, keeping things accurate and updated, filling in missing areas, and developing plans for live operations extensions and additions to existing systems and content.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Manage a team of experienced designers, including providing 1:1 support, design mentoring and coaching, career development support, and workload management.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Represent the game, both internally and externally, serving as a champion for the player experience and our innovative solutions by which we make that a GotY contender.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Coordinate with production and discipline leads to roadmap future development, balancing prototyping and R&amp;D needs with ongoing feature and content development and optimization of a live audience experience.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Working with team leadership, help identify needs, risks, and pro-actively address any concerns related to design work and/or staffing.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Participate in prototype and testing efforts to prove-out design concepts and balance game features.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Collaborate with Marketing, Community Management, QA, and Customer Service to always be hearing the voices of our players and incorporating their needs and concerns into the team’s discussions.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Prepare milestone deliverables, presentations, overviews, videos, etc. as necessary to showcase the game design and the project generally.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Travel to PR events, offsites, and in-person team events will be a non-trivial commitment for this role.</li>
<li dir="ltr">Inspire, motivate, and mentor other designers in best practices, processes, and procedures.</li>
</ul><h2 dir="ltr">Qualifications</h2>You must have proven and relatively recent experience leading a team of designers on a well-regarded&nbsp;multiplayer PC or console game. We'd like you to also&nbsp;demonstrate a strong sense of what makes for&nbsp;great gameplay, and how to deliver that to a high-quality bar. Finally, to succeed in this role, you must&nbsp;have robust people management&nbsp;skills, bring high-energy and engagement to the team, and be able to work collaboratively across a range&nbsp;of development disciplines. <ul>
<li dir="ltr">6+ years of experience as a game designer with at least one title developed full-cycle in a lead role</li>
<li dir="ltr">Recent experience, within the past 3 years, in a lead designer role on a successfully released and well-regarded multiplayer PC or console game</li>
<li dir="ltr">Unreal 5 experience at an implementation level - if you’re afraid of blueprints, you are not the right person</li>
<li dir="ltr">Prior experience managing multiple direct reports, design processes, and information repositories</li>
<li dir="ltr">Experience shipping multiple titles, including on PC and console</li>
</ul><h2 dir="ltr">Bonus&nbsp;</h2><ul>
<li dir="ltr">Experience as a “closer” is a definite plus</li>
<li dir="ltr">Experience with live services is a plus</li>
<li dir="ltr">Design experience with immersive sim games</li>
<li dir="ltr">Design experience with stealth games</li>
<li dir="ltr">Design experience with PvPvE games</li>
</ul> <h2 dir="ltr">Additional Notes</h2>This is a full-time, remote working role, with competitive compensation and a full suite of benefits available anywhere in the United States. All team members may be asked to occasionally travel for key meetings, as part of their job responsibilities.At OtherSide Entertainment, we know our success depends on our people. Just as our mission is oriented around empowering our players, we open our doors to all kinds of candidates. Our development process and players benefit from a variety of points of view, united by a shared passion for making fun and engaging experiences. If you don’t hit every one of our bullets, unless otherwise noted, feel free to still submit an application if you too resonate with our mission. If you require any accommodations to ensure an equitable interviewing experience please let us know!A Warning About Job Scams - We hate that we have to say it, but there are always bad actors trying to take advantage of people. We've become aware that there are scammers impersonating us with job interview messages. Please keep diligent and know that we will never have you download anything for an interview (We use Teamtailor, which is a SaaS product) and not Telegram or other message services. We also will not ever ask you for money, for you to buy your own equipment, or that you travel somewhere for an interview and we will reimburse you. When in doubt, please feel free to message the recruiter listed for each role on LinkedIn, or our CPO Juliette () about the legitimacy of any messages. 
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