Lead Gameplay Designer

Playground Games is looking for a Lead Gameplay Designer to join our Fable team on a permanent basis.

### What you’ll do - Establish, maintain, and evolve design processes while ensuring gameplay design work is completed on time and to a high-quality standard. - Guide and evaluate your team’s gameplay design work to ensure it’s creatively and technically sound, and aligned with the game’s overall vision. - Ensure that the communication between the Gameplay Design team and other stakeholders is smooth and efficient. - Develop the skills and talent of the Gameplay Design team, carrying performance reviews and owning line management duties. - Be responsible for the tasks and bugs of the Gameplay Design team, and work with other stakeholders to help define and prioritize them. - Deputize for the Design Director, when required.

### What you’ll bring - Proven success working on a character-driven gameplay systems such as locomotion, combat, camera, and AI. - Experience working within AAA Studios. - A strong creative sensibility and the ability to elevate your team’s work through constructive feedback. - Ideally contributed to at least 1, 3rd person melee action game, preferably open world. - A flexible, highly-motivated, team-player attitude. - A good understanding of technical considerations, with the ability to communicate with technical team members. - A genuine passion for video games.

### Benefits and culture - Playground Games is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we believe that diversity and inclusion fuels creativity. We are dedicated to creating a safe, comfortable and welcoming working environment. - We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our team members. It drives our innovation and connects us closer to our players. - We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion across age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. - At Playground Games we recognise the importance of self-development, career progression, well-being and retention of our colleagues. We celebrate difference and welcome everyone to join us and to be themselves at work.

Playground Games is a British AAA video game developer known for creating the Forza Horizon series and currently working on the next Fable game. The studio focuses on genre-defining gaming experiences, including open-world racing and fantasy RPGs, for a global audience.[1][2]