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Design Director

15 minutes ago
Canada
Full-time
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Design Lead
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Game Development Prototyping
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Blackbird Interactive

Blackbird Interactive

Blackbird Interactive (BBI) is an independent game development studio based in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2010 by industry veterans, BBI is known for creating immersive strategy and adventure games like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak and Hardspace: Sh...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
Founded 2010
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Description

  • Define, reinforce, and execute the game's creative vision with project leadership and publishing stakeholders.
  • Lead the development of the narrative, characters, investigative gameplay, and environmental storytelling.
  • Lead, mentor, and support the design team while fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and accountability.
  • Collaborate with engineering, art, audio, and production to establish workflows and keep the project aligned.
  • Provide creative direction and feedback to turn high-level vision into polished, shippable content.
  • Identify creative risks, narrative gaps, and production challenges early and help balance ambition with scope, schedule, and technical constraints.
  • Contribute hands-on to writing, narrative implementation, game design, prototyping, and content development as needed.
  • Help unblock the team and drive key features through critical milestones.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of game development experience, including 5+ years in a creative leadership, narrative leadership, or senior design role.
  • Hands-on experience developing content in Unreal Engine 5.
  • Confidence using in-engine tools and workflows to prototype, implement, iterate, and polish gameplay features.
  • Experience shipping at least one narrative-driven or creatively ambitious game with significant responsibility for story, gameplay, or creative direction.
  • Strong understanding of interactive storytelling, narrative pacing, player agency, and how gameplay and presentation combine.
  • Proven ability to provide creative direction, review content, and maintain quality and consistency across a multidisciplinary team.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across design, narrative, engineering, art, audio, and production.
  • Comfort contributing hands-on to writing, narrative implementation, game design, prototyping, or content development.
  • Passion for crime fiction, investigative storytelling, and grounded, character-driven narrative games (preferred).
  • Experience with dialogue systems, cinematic storytelling, performance capture, or branching narrative tools (preferred).

Benefits

  • Remote-first workplace.
  • Flexible work arrangements.
  • Only candidates legally eligible to work in Canada and residing in Canada will be considered.

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