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Senior Staff, Technical Designer - Fortnite
Senior Staff, Technical Designer - Fortnite
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Staff Technical Designer for the Fortnite team. This role focuses on enhancing design quality and integrity from conception to execution, providing technical solutions for a large-scale live-service game, and empowering the design team through direct implementation, tools, and best practices.
About the role
About the Role
Epic Games is looking for a Senior Staff Technical Designer to join our Fortnite team. As a Technical Designer, you’ll focus on improving the quality and integrity of our designs from conception through execution. We are looking for someone with a strong background in creative problem solving, and a history of tackling complex challenges in a live game environment. Your work will empower the design team to make better content and experiences for our players through direct implementation, tools, and best practices. If you have a real passion for gaming and have delivered technical solutions for a large-scale live-service game, we’d love to talk with you!
What You’ll Do
- Work closely with the design team to ensure our content and experiences are technically sound and implemented efficiently
- Establish and evangelize design best practices to improve the overall quality of content and the effectiveness of the design team
- Help define technical direction for the design team, as well as identify and advocate for new tools and features
- Provide hands-on implementation and support for a wide range of design features, systems, and content
- Contribute to multiple efforts across the game in a fast-paced environment
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with other disciplines within the team
- Debug, problem solve, and iterate rapidly to deliver solutions for issues as they arise
What We’re Looking For
- Demonstrated experience in a Senior/Lead Technical Design role shipping multiple large-scale live-service games.
- Expertise in Unreal Engine (or equivalent engine) and Blueprint (or equivalent scripting language)
- Ability to take ambiguous problems, identify the root causes, and propose well thought-out solutions
- Ability to recognize opportunities to improve workflows and pipelines and make them more efficient
- Self-motivated and able to dive into complex problems with little supervision
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Someone who is a proven leader and mentor for other designers
- Experience working on Fortnite Creative or UEFN is a plus