Senior Technical Designer

Job title: Senior Technical Designer
Team: Games Expansion
Reports to: Robin Hedin, Design Manager
Location: Stockholm Studio

Contract Information
Start date: Asap
Contract length: 10 months

At Mojang, we create games, products, and services to inspire creativity. We develop games with a strong community focus and put players first in everything we do. Our games are built for everyone, because we believe in demonstrating equality and not just talking about it.

We are a vibrant and highly skilled team creating games together, with an ambition to inspire future generations and to build a better tomorrow. We are looking for you, a Senior Technical Designer with experience in console game development, to join our friendly Stockholm studio and one of our new game teams. We have a hybrid working model setup collaborate closely within and across disciplines as well as with our partner studios in the UK and Sweden.

As a Senior Technical Designer, you’ll be working closely with quest designers, other designers, key stakeholders and other craft representatives to create a high-quality hand-crafted quest experience for our players. You will be a core part of the game development process for one of the biggest game franchises in the world – from ideation and design to implementing and polishing.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise to bring quests and gameplay elements to life – from idea to implementation

• Design and implement Quests in Unreal Engine (5)

• Be responsible for iterative design and implementation work as well as bug-fixing for quests

• Test, evaluate and balance your designs in cooperation with peers and other crafts and stakeholders within the project

• Collaborate with your team and project on creating the best experience for our players

• Communicate rationales, design choices and feedback, within the team and project

• Document your work, making sure it stays up-to-date and is shared within the project
  
  

Qualifications

• At least 4-5 years of experience with strong knowledge of Technical/Quest/Game. design

• Experience with game development and working in Unreal Engine (5)

• Knowledge of game design and understanding of contextualized design
  
  
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in written form (in English), to support your vision

• Ability to work together with other designers, engineers and other stakeholders

• The desire to be part of a creative and highly collaborative team and ability to work with feedback and direction.

• Narrative Design experience is a plus

• Experience with, and an understanding of what makes Minecraft what it is also considered a plus