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Lead and define the game's visual direction, mentor and manage a small multidisciplinary art team, produce hands-on concept and production art, collaborate with design/engineering/production to meet technical and schedule constraints, and ensure high visual quality and consistency across environments, characters, lighting, and atmosphere.

The Contract UI/UX Designer will create immersive user interfaces for games, focusing on player engagement through visual design and usability. Responsibilities include designing player flows, prototyping UI solutions, and collaborating with team members to enhance the gaming experience.

Lead the game's design vision through pre-production: define gameplay systems, prototype in Unreal/Blueprints, lead a small design team, run playtests, iterate mechanics, collaborate cross-functionally, and scope features for production while mentoring designers.

Lead the level design vision for a horror game franchise: create blockouts, prototypes, and production levels in Unreal Engine, mentor a small team, define workflows, collaborate cross-functionally, implement Blueprints, and iterate on pacing, tension, and environmental storytelling to deliver memorable horror experiences.

Lead narrative design for rapid-prototype game concepts: refine backlogged concepts, define plot/theme/tone/characters, storyboard story beats, advise co-dev teams, and organize voice recording to support episodic storytelling potential.

Lead design and implementation of systemic NPC AI for combat and narrative moments. Create and balance behavior graphs, prototype in Unreal Blueprints, document designs in Confluence, break features into Jira tasks, and collaborate closely with animators, AI engineers, level designers, and production.

Compose and produce original, adaptive music and atmospheric soundscapes for a psychological horror game. Collaborate with design and audio teams to implement dynamic scores, deliver stems/variations, iterate on playtest feedback, and support sound effects creation and game audio implementation.

Lead character creation for rapid prototypes: evaluate concepts, own modeling, surfacing, rigging and effects, and collaborate to set up behavior Blueprints/trees and scripted cinematics.

Lead gameplay mechanics design for a rapid-prototyping Skunk Works team. Define, build, implement, and refine Unreal Engine 5 blueprint prototypes, ensure build stability and 3Cs (character, controls, camera) feel, assess feature requirements, collaborate with artists and engineers, and measure feature success against goals.

Lead the multiplayer game's creative vision and live-service strategy from Early Access through ongoing operation. Own progression, pacing, co-op balance, post-launch roadmap, live-ops cadence, and cross-discipline execution while converting player feedback into a prioritized backlog and guiding design documentation and stakeholder communication.