Senior Systems Designer

Job Description

Your Platform

Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto, Canada and Guildford, UK – Sledgehammer Games is the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our passionate employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

We are constantly evolving and innovating – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With our outstanding audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love making games and we work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for dedicated game developers for our exciting upcoming projects.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

We have an industry leading development team and a studio culture built to promote and support extraordinary game developers. We are actively recruiting for a Senior Multiplayer Systems Designer to join our Call of Duty development team. If you love crafting fun new multiplayer experiences and have a desire to work on the most successful FPS franchise in the history of video games.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Lead
• Lead design team by example and pursuit of excellence.
• Work with the lead designer to set standards and expectations within the design team.
Ownership
• Own major design systems within the game.

Conceptualize
• Conceptualize, pitch and iterate on designs with the design team.
• Actively debate design concepts, systems and mechanics with the design team.

Implement
• Implement designs and concepts using in-house tools within time frames provided.
• Work with artists, engineers, animators and audio experts to bring designs to life.

Iterate
• Constantly iterate on game mechanics and game systems to find the fun based on user feedback, analytics and design goals.

Polish
• Refine gameplay above and beyond expectations to execution excellence.

Player Profile
• 5+ years of experience designing games.
• 5+ years of programming/scripting experience - C++, C#, Lua or other languages.
• Be Positive
• Love games
• Mental flexibility
• Mental fortitude
• Enjoy challenges and creative problem solving

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dyey13-3-145-44-174-42 in your application.