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Full-Time
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Principal Game Designer, Engagement

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Description

Epic Games is seeking a Principal Game Designer to lead the innovation and development of player engagement systems within the Fortnite ecosystem. This involves creating and enhancing game mechanics like Quests and Passes, designing new structures to guide player experience across the platform, and collaborating with various teams to optimize engagement, ensure player satisfaction, and drive growth. The role requires a strong understanding of player motivations and the ability to drive collaborative, iterative live design.

What We're Looking For

Craft meaningful goals for players that build their exposure, experience, and mastery of new and existing game mechanics, while immersing them in the world of Fortnite.,Spearhead innovation in design for the engagement space, including systems, progression, and rewards, fulfilling key engagement metrics and supporting broad systematic framework needs.,Communicate and represent a vision for the player's experience to multiple teams across the company, and support all crafts to optimize engagement.,Collaborate with product management and marketing teams to ensure player satisfaction and overall game health while driving growth across the ecosystem and supporting key activations.,Drive collaborative and iterative live design to prototype quickly, make changes live soon after, learn from them, and iterate.

Ideal Candidate

10+ years of experience shipping multiple titles as a game designer, working on engagement content or goal-based progression systems in live-service multiplayer environments.,Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of goal setting on play.,Strong interest in BR and the Fortnite Ecosystem with an understanding of what makes them work.,Able to react quickly to changing project needs and drive decisions, then own that vision.,Player-focused, passionate, solutions-focused, and innovative.

Hard Skills

Game Design
Engagement Systems
Player Experience
Live-Service Multiplayer Environments
Fortnite Ecosystem
Unreal Engine

Soft Skills

Player-focused
Passionate
Solutions-focused
Innovative
Collaboration
Problem Solving
Communication
Empathy
Adaptability

Benefits

Medical (100% premium paid for employee and dependents)
Dental (100% premium paid for employee and dependents)
Vision HRA
Long Term Disability
Life Insurance
401k with competitive match
Mental well-being program (Modern Health)
Company events
Company-wide paid breaks
Unlimited PTO and sick time
Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment. (For Porto Alegre, Brazil location: includes daily meal vouchers and commuter benefits for onsite employees in addition to medical, dental, and life insurance.)

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Epic Games, Inc.

Epic Games is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company is best known for developing the Unreal Engine, the globally popular game Fortnite, and operating the Epic Games Store digital storefront.

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