Senior Designer, Gameplay

Position Overview

Position is hybrid with weekly onsite days at Avalanche Studio in Salt Lake City, UT. Relocation assistance provided for qualified candidates out of the area.

Join the team behind 2023’s smash hit Hogwarts Legacy! Avalanche Software, a division of WB Games Inc., is seeking a Senior Gameplay Mechanics Designer with a passion for finely tuned gameplay control and feel, vast knowledge of 3C’s design and implementation, inspiring player abilities, and highly responsive moment‑to‑moment gameplay feel.

• Daily design, prototype, and implement gameplay mechanics with focus on 3
  
  Cs, player abilities, and interactions.
• Partner with design leadership to help define pillars, player experience goals, and feature plans that support the broader vision for the game and build on established gameplay mechanics systems.
• Translate high-level creative direction, team feedback, and cross-discipline conversations into clear design documentation, specs, and implementation plans.
• Work closely with discipline leads and stakeholders across the studio to gather input, vet proposals, and align gameplay systems with the broader needs of the project.
• Work closely with production to prioritize features and keep milestones on track.
• Help improve tools, pipelines, and documentation for implementation and iteration, and share those processes with the team.
• Collaborate with engineers, animators, artists, VFX, audio, UI, and other designers to solve gameplay-related technical and design problems.
• Partner with the broader team to tune and refine systems based on leadership & peer feedback, playtest results, and data analysis.
• Contribute to progression, reward, and other connected gameplay systems that complement the moment-to-moment gameplay experience.

• Minimum of 5 years progressively complex game industry experience.
• Strong gameplay and systems design experience, with the ability to own features from concept through polish.
• Demonstrated ability to define feature direction and turn broad creative goals into clear design plans and documentation.
• Experience designing and implementing third‑person player mechanics in 3D games; action RPG experience preferred.
• Contributed to shipped titles and participated in a full dev cycle from concept through release.
• Experience with Maya, Unreal Engine 5, including Blueprint and other gameplay implementation tools, to create and iterate on gameplay features.
• Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and provide clear guidance to designers, engineers, and artists.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize feedback from multiple stakeholders into coherent design proposals and implementation specs.

• Experience with broader gameplay and progression systems is a plus.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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