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Design gameplay user experiences from concept through implementation. Responsibilities include defining UX vision, creating personas, user journeys, wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and design systems; collaborating with UI artists, engineers, technical designers, and game designers; validating usability and accessibility; and supporting technical execution in game engines.

Create high-fidelity UI assets including icons, menus, HUDs, and motion graphics concepts for games. Lead UI asset integration, scalable pipelines, technical implementation, performance optimization, localization, and multi-platform layouts. Collaborate with UX designers, UI engineers, technical designers, and leads to deliver complete features. Establish visual standards and style guides, communicate artistic rationale, manage workflows, and mentor other artists.

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.

Optimize GPU, CPU, memory, streaming, rendering, and platform performance for a multiplatform Unreal Engine 5 AAA game. Build cook and runtime systems supporting scalable content across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, and minimum-specification PC. Define performance standards with rendering engineers and technical artists, implement platform-specific rendering features, analyze shaders and pipelines, and resolve technical requirements for 60+ FPS quality and 120+ FPS performance modes.

Leads backend engineering teams building and operating studio-hosted services for a live multiplayer game. Owns service architecture, infrastructure, APIs, deployment, monitoring, incident response, performance, disaster recovery, and platform integrations. Manages planning, hiring, engineering standards, releases, CI/CD, and on-call operations while contributing code and technical designs. Requires extensive server-side development experience, backend leadership on a shipped AAA title, and expertise in scalable distributed systems and AWS production services.

Lead publishing production for AAA and live-service sports games from development through post-launch. Manage publishing pipelines, backend technology integrations, milestone reviews, playtests, game submissions, build launches, budgets, and cross-functional alignment among development, QA, release management, marketing, commercial, and licensing teams. Provide production support, resolve blockers, communicate requirements, and prepare executive-facing materials.

Drive community strategy and engagement for the BioShock franchise across Steam, Discord, Reddit, and other platforms. Build player relationships, manage feedback loops, analyze sentiment and community data, produce reports, coordinate moderation and messaging, and partner with marketing, development, communications, creators, agencies, legal, and studio teams to grow player communities and inform game and go-to-market strategies.

Develop narrative content for a AAA game, including story arcs, dialogue, characters, scripts, character bios, and voice-casting materials. Implement writing in Unreal Engine and proprietary tools, participate in play sessions, provide narrative feedback, and improve writing workflows. Collaborate with design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams while maintaining thematic consistency, responding to critique, and driving solutions through ambiguity.

Develop and optimize advanced animation systems and runtime character performance in Unreal Engine 5. Responsibilities include authoring Animation Blueprints, procedural animation systems, Motion Matching, locomotion, cloth, IK, and secondary dynamics. The role diagnoses issues across Maya and the game engine, improves pipelines and performance, collaborates across disciplines, documents workflows, and mentors team members supporting a AAA game production.

Leads the strategy and execution of external game development partnerships for a AAA project. Builds outsourcing pipelines, workflows, trackers, briefs, review processes, and onboarding systems; sources and negotiates with vendors; manages budgets, forecasts, schedules, contracts, milestones, quality, risk, and reporting. Partners with production, art, discipline leads, legal, procurement, IT, and leadership while developing the external development function and future team.