Associate Game Designer

Job Description

Treyarch is searching for the next member of its Combat Team. The combat team is responsible for the design and creation of weapons, equipment and other combat gameplay content and systems. The content and systems created are intertwined across the entire game with a focus on the PVP experience for casual, hardcore, and competitive players.

As an Associate Game Designer at Treyarch you will collaborate with teammates from all development disciplines to bring gameplay features and systems to the players. Working with senior, lead, and other designers, you'll assist in implementation of existing systems and create design documentation to execution on new combat features.

Your Mission:
• Work directly with Senior and Lead designers on the combat team.
• Implement data and assets required to support features and systems.
• Work with cross-disciplinary teams to prototype, iterate, and execute systems.
• Playtest regularly and provide feedback on combat features, combat systems, and other components of our games.
• Create and maintain design documentation that clearly communicates the requirements for Combat Systems.

The skills and experience you'll need:
• The ability to bring a positive, supportive, and collaborative attitude to a team environment.
• Self-motivated work ethic with a desire to learn, absorb feedback, and tackle a variety of design tasks.
• Attention to detail and a thoughtful approach to solving design problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Our ideal candidate will have:
• Understanding of Call of Duty, FPS Genre, and multiplayer industry trends.
• Experience in a detail-oriented data entry or content implementation role.
• Experience with game development tools, and bug tracking software.
• Formal game design, interface design, product design, training, or 1+ years of equivalent experience in a game design role.
• Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel, Slack, JIRA, and Adobe Illustrator.
• Passion for playing and making video games.
• Willing to complete and submit a written design document evaluation if asked.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d89e5x-3-145-105-105-42 in your application.