SENIOR TECHNICAL GAME DESIGNER (PEOPLE CAN FLY)

🕹 Project Echo
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote / 👔 Office (Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱)

🦄 Description
People Can Fly is an international AAA game development studio known for titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment and Outriders. The team is working on multiple high-profile projects including Gears of War: E-Day, Project Echo for KRAFTON, Lost Rift and other unannounced titles.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Game Designer who will take full ownership of features from concept to delivery, create engaging player interactions, work closely with animation, sound, VFX and engineering departments, and prototype, script, iterate and optimize gameplay systems within Unreal Engine.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Own features from concept, paper design and prototyping to debugging, optimization and final delivery
• Create player interactions with the world and enemies
• Collaborate with animation, sound, VFX and programming teams to ensure high-quality mechanics
• Work with programmers to define implementation, including data-driven approaches
• Provide clear bug reports and support cross-team communication
• Implement player character animations, behaviors, VFX and SFX using scripting systems
• Serve as first point of contact for technical design issues and determine script vs code needs
• Identify workflow issues and propose solutions
• Conduct playtests with developers and iterate on prototypes
• Create detailed design documentation
• Share knowledge with peers and occasionally support recruitment and onboarding
• Spend majority of work time inside Unreal Engine (approximately 80%)

📚 Required Skills
• 6+ years of professional game design or scripting experience
• Shipped at least one AAA game on PC or console
• Strong knowledge of Unreal Engine 4 or 5
• Strong practical and theoretical game design experience
• Experience with visual scripting or programming languages
• Experience working with established game toolsets
• Deep understanding of game design principles and player psychology
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to understand and implement feedback effectively
• Strong ability to prioritize work under tight deadlines
• Knowledge of RPG genre games
• Good mentoring abilities
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills

👍 Nice to Have
• None listed beyond general experience already referenced

🌐 Vacancy link

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