Game Designer

$165,000 - $231,000/Yr

Meta - Oklahoma City, OK

Full-time - Mid Level

Oklahoma City, OK

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About the position

As a Game Designer on the Meta Horizon team, you will be instrumental in creating a social User Generated Content (UGC) platform that fosters community engagement and exploration in a virtual environment. Your role will involve collaborating with a diverse team to design and implement innovative gaming experiences that enhance social connections and user interaction within the metaverse.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics, loops, level layouts, and systems
• Contribute to strategic decisions, working with the Creative and Product teams
• Clearly articulate design decisions to a vast set of internal stakeholders
• Give and solicit real-time feedback from other creatives to continually raise the quality and craftsmanship of the product
• Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers, content strategists & 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
• Advocate for game design and help build a great, welcoming, and inclusive game design community within Reality Labs and throughout Meta

Requirements

• 6+ 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 with 3D development engines such as Unity or Unreal
• Experience leading end-to-end development efforts and designing games from concept to launch and live ops
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with diverse cross-functional teams to bring a vision to life
• Experience in design strategy and vision, but also fluency in executing such as tuning the feel of the game or low fidelity prototyping
• A portfolio that features some games you have prototyped or shipped, and showcases your game design skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing or designing VR or AR games
• General design knowledge across a range of design specializations
• Knowledge of 3D art and visual design principles
• Experience utilizing research and data to drive strategy and decision making

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health benefits