Game Designer on Horizon Worlds Responsibilities:

• Help establish preliminary processes to align cross-functional teams
• Contribute to strategic decisions, working with the Design and Product teams
• Design end-to-end experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics and loops
• Give and solicit real time feedback from other designers to continually raise the quality and craftsmanship of the product
• Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, content strategist & QA, overseeing the implementation of the user experience from product conception to launch - as well as post-launch design support
• Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional leads including user research, data science, and product management
• Clearly articulate design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders
• Advocate for game design and help us build a great, welcoming, and inclusive game design community within Reality Labs and throughout Meta

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 years of game design experience or a minimum of 2 shipped titles on any platform that have been successful (highly rated, critically acclaimed, award-winning, etc.)
• Experience using or making games with a 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games from concept to launch
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross functional teams to bring a vision to life
• Experience inspiring teams with your vision, but also actively getting into executing - prototyping and tuning the feel of the game
• A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped, and showcases your game design skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 years of game design experience or a minimum of 3 shipped titles in AAA or indie game spaces
• Experience developing or designing VR or AR games
• Experience with technical aspects of game design such as scripting in Unity, or blueprints in Unreal
• General design knowledge across a range of design specializations
• Proven shipped titles as a specialist in Level Design, Systems Design, Economy Design, Gameplay Design, etc.

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