Description
Principal Game Designer, Engagement
At Epic Games, we're looking for a skilled Principal Game Designer to join our team and help shape the future of interactive entertainment.
What We Do
As a Principal Game Designer, you will be responsible for crafting meaningful goals for players that build their exposure, experience, and mastery of new and existing game mechanics, all while immersing them in the world of Fortnite.
Responsibilities
- Craft meaningful goals for players that build their exposure, experience, and mastery of new and existing game mechanics, all while immersing them in the world of Fortnite
- Spearhead innovation in design for the engagement space, including systems, progression, and rewards, fulfilling key engagement metrics and supporting broad systematic framework needs
- Communicate and represent a vision for the player's experience to multiple teams across the company, as well as supporting teams of all crafts to optimize their engagement
- Collaborate with product management and marketing teams to ensure player satisfaction and overall game health while driving growth across the ecosystem and supporting key activations
- Drive collaborative and iterative live design to prototype quickly, make changes live soon after, learn from them, and iterate
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience shipping multiple titles as a game designer, working on engagement content or goal-based progression systems in live-service multiplayer environments
- Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of goal setting on play
- Strong interest in BR and the Fortnite Ecosystem with an understanding of what makes them work
- Able to react quickly to changing project needs and drive decisions, then own that vision
- You're player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Benefits
At Epic Games, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% paid benefits for both employees and dependents, as well as coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance, and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.
Pay Transparency Information
The expected annual base pay range for this position is $179,686,$263,539 CAD.