Job Description

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We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we\'ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support flexible/hybrid working options.

We are seeking an experienced Design Director with exceptional leadership and people management skills to guide our talented team in crafting an unannounced Sci Fi Shooter game.

As Design Director you will be the vision holder for your project, responsible for ensuring consistency and timely delivery of high-quality design across all aspects of the game. Your role is to empower and support the Design Team in all facets of the design and development process to help drive and define a consistent creative vision for the game universe and gameplay experience. Your focus will be on identifying and communicating ongoing design strategy, risks, priorities, and regular updates to key stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Guide, Inspire and develop Lead Designers with best practice leadership and people management techniques. Proactively manage their performance and professional development through performance reviews giving constructive, actionable, and relevant feedback.
• Act as a spokesperson for the Design Team by concisely and clearly, communicating updates and gameplay demos to Head of Design, and internal and external senior management stakeholders as required.
• Obtain and maintain buy in from key stakeholders and the executive group throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring they are on board with the vision and scope of the game and understand the game they are getting.
• Be influential with all stakeholders, upwards, downwards, and sideways within the Design team and the wider Rebellion ensuring relevant information is communicated appropriately.
• Understand Rebellion\'s long term strategic goals, our audience and target market ensuring the game design and scope is relevant to those factors.
• Contribute to the delivery of the design departments and Rebellion\'s short-term goals, long-term strategy, and initiatives by giving feedback, creating new ways of working, supporting recruitment, learning and development and resource planning and ensure the department can adapt to a changing market.
• Influence project priorities and roadmap and facilitate execution of the project on schedule, and in line with design direction.
• Verify the quality of design in the game, give feedback and suggest improvements where necessary fine tune the game, whilst cooperating with constraints and direction.
• Conduct gameplay evaluations with the Lead Designers, Head of Design and Producer\'s.
• Verify quality detailed game design documents and prototype specifications which can be used throughout the production process.

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of creating game design documents and prototype specifications.
• An expert knowledge of the video game development process, including working in a timely / time-bound manner, and prototyping/iterating appropriately within that restriction.
• Excellent knowledge of production pipelines.
• Understand the audience for the game, ensuring the game design serves the target audience.

Benefits:

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 26 days holiday + Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years - one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more\xe2\x80\xa6 including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

About Us

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products. If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn\'t sound quite like you, we\'re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we\'re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies:

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