Senior Quest Designer

Job Description

Design at Epic

What We Do

Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.

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What you'll do

Epic Games is looking for Senior Quest Designers to join our team working on Fortnite. In this role, you'll work with a team of designers in order to create quest content that supports a variety of systems, modes, and playstyles. Senior Quest Designers at Epic collaborate with a cross-discipline development team responsible for engaging players with goals that enrich their experience and tie in to broader forms of progression.

In this role, you will
• Collaborate and help guide a team to craft 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.
• Contribute and help guide the design, vision and outcome for quest content that fulfills key player engagement metrics and supports broad systematic framework needs.
• Communicate and represent a vision for the player's experience to your team members as well as supporting teams of all crafts.
• Collaborate with product management and marketing teams to ensure player satisfaction and overall game health.
• Lead by example to set the quality bar for design.
• Actively participate in big-picture decisions, and ensure the design team focuses on the right elements to achieve superior results.
• Drive collaborative and iterative prototyping, both paper-based and in-game.
• Attend playtests, provide feedback, and identify practical solutions to problems.
• Work closely with production to identify, prioritize, assign, and evaluate design work.

What we're looking for
• 5+ years experience shipping multiple titles as a game designer working on quest content or goal-based progression systems.
• Experience designing game content for GaaS model.
• Passion for games with a wide breadth of game knowledge.
• 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 multiplayer games with an understanding of what makes them work.
• Solution oriented problem solver who can react quickly to changing project needs and drive to decisions.
• You're user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxo7y4-18-220-140-5-42 in your application.