Senior Technical Designer at The Multiplayer Group (MPG)

Job Description

About MPG:

At The Multiplayer Group (MPG), we specialise in creating the highest standard of mind-blowing multiplayer experiences for our partners, through Co-Dev and Full-Dev projects.

Our people-first culture fosters a welcoming environment and a diverse team of talented people from across the globe.

We have a flexible approach to working that makes room for real life.

With our team spread far and wide, we're always looking for ways to bring our people together, whether that's online or in person.

Our giving back philosophy is centred around our local communities, education, and sustainability. We’re proud to say we’ve been Climate Positive since 2020!

Your mission: 

As our Senior Technical Designer, you’ll help develop and deliver high-quality gameplay assemblies for our AAA projects, across our high-profile co-development partners. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing game designs and iterating them into high-quality playables for our partner’s games. You will also be acting as an interface between our design and engineering teams, by helping develop, iterate and maintain new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• The work could be at any stage of a game’s gestation, from concept and prototype, through mid-development, to soft launch and live updates
• Receiving, digesting and solving high-level feedback into work that the team can action and improve the game upon.
• Working with production and the team directly to ensure the outcome of your work to a release-quality standard.
• You will embrace and exemplify MPG’s Design methodology: championing quality and with a deep understanding of the client’s design process
• You will display cross-discipline expertise and act as an interface between design and engineering
• You will act as a technical expert on the topic and ensure the tools, documents, technical support and dissemination of best practices
• Periodically provide feedback, including suggestions to improve tools and methods, bugs, etc
• As an expert user, help test new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team
• Carry out production tasks as a game designer and prototype the gameplay features during game design
• Design and implement elements that are more complex, abstract or technically challenging and which impact the entire game

Requirements

What we need from you:

• Previous experience working on 1+ AAA title in a technical design or scripting capacity 
• Excellent verbal, written and diagrammatic communication skills and experience with wiki-based design documentation
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines
• Ability to understand and communicate in technical language
• Curiosity and drive to understand how things work
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Adaptability, autonomy, proactivity
• Structure, attention to detail, efficiency
• Ability to clearly express ideas (spoken and written)
• Experience of prototyping gameplay mechanics using UE4/UE5 Blueprints
• Experience with a scripting or programming language

What would help:

• Experience in a generalist role, working across all facets of game design
• Experience in meta/monetisation mechanisms for Free-to-Play design
• Experience designing games for console and/or PC 
• Experience in UI/UX design

Benefits

• Flexible working: We were remote-friendly way before it was cool. We want to give you the flexibility you need to perform your best at work, and look after your home life too, so we have core hours that make room for real life. 
• Support & wellbeing: From dedicated mental health first-aiders to therapy and coaching through our wellbeing partner, Myndup, private medical insurance and even a weekly exercise class live-streamed from the UK office - we provide the tools you need to stay happy and healthy.
• Pension and life cover: We've got your back with a solid pension plan that helps you level up your retirement savings effortlessly. Plus, our life insurance policy gives your family the ultimate protection boost.
• Time for you: Booking a holiday? We offer a minimum of 25 vacation days, as well as a paid break over the winter holiday. Plus there’s an additional 3 Volunteering Days per year for you to invest time in your local communities and causes that matter.
• Parental leave: Family comes first. We offer parental leave to support your journey as a parent or caregiver, giving you the flexibility to balance your professional and personal responsibilities.
• Levelling up: Whichever path you wish to take, there’s tonnes of ways to earn XP. Everyone at MPG has access to an annual L&D budget, allowing you to purchase the materials you need for learning in your spare time. There’s also a large hub of Expert Talks, Game Jams and exciting mentoring opportunities.
• Getting together: We're always looking for ways to bring people together. Every team member has a dedicated Entertainment Allowance for socialising with others at MPG. We also host regular chances to have fun as a team - online and in person - as well as monthly company-wide meetings, Expert Talks and Tea Times with Andy (our CEO!)