Top Design Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Translate UX designs into performant implementations, establish UI architecture and workflow standards, collaborate with multidisciplinary game development teams, evaluate new tools, and mentor technical designers. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps, hiring, onboarding, and building the studio’s technical UI function.

Develops high-quality character concepts from exploration through production-ready designs, including sketches, turnarounds, and documentation. Translates ambiguous creative briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Defines character design standards, collaborates with art and cross-disciplinary teams to support 3D production, mentors artists, improves workflows, and independently manages complex assignments.

Create production-ready characters, creatures, and weapons from high-resolution sculpts through modeling, topology, UVs, texturing, materials, and Unreal Engine integration. Own complex assignments, establish artistic and technical standards, solve visual and production challenges, collaborate across disciplines, mentor artists, manage priorities, and oversee external vendors. The role requires expert real-time character art skills, strong artistic judgment, technical problem-solving, and experience shipping multiple game titles.

Leads a multiplayer game feature team by setting design objectives, managing and mentoring designers, defining sprint and milestone priorities, evaluating gameplay, and coordinating cross-functional execution. The role requires expertise in multiplayer systems, competitive PvP design, gameplay theory, feedback analysis, tradeoff management, Unreal Engine, and Blueprint visual scripting.

Leads and mentors gameplay animators developing high-end player-character and AI animations. Establishes animation vision, pipelines, workflows, tools, onboarding, Unreal Engine training, and motion-capture planning. Creates hand-key and motion-capture animations, collaborates on production roadmaps and sprint planning, delegates tasks, resolves blockers, supports hiring, and promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration and a positive team culture.

Lead and grow a lighting team to define and execute real-time lighting for immersive AAA games. Establish visual standards, optimize lighting workflows, collaborate with Art, Tech, and Production to meet runtime and timeline constraints.

The Senior Combat Designer will create and script captivating gameplay encounters for BioShock 4, working collaboratively to elevate interactive moments, ensure quality, and drive the overall creative vision.

Design and build believable, gameplay-supporting 3D environments and modular kits using Unreal Engine. Collaborate with cross-discipline teams, maintain asset libraries, iterate on layouts for combat and narrative, ensure technical compliance with Tech Art, and own long-term creative and production responsibilities for delivered levels.

Design and block out game worlds, create gameplay content using Blueprint scripting, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, solve cross-disciplinary sequences, mentor junior designers, and implement scripted and systemic content to deliver immersive AAA player experiences.

Lead and manage a team of level artists and world builders to create stylized, high-quality environments. Collaborate with Art, Design, and Narrative leads, establish workflows, mentor artists, create asset lists, and ensure artistic consistency using industry tools and game editors (UE5 preferred).