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Technical Designer

Horsham, United Kingdom

Creative Assembly


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About Creative Assembly

Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK and in Sofia, Bulgaria. With a heritage of award-winning AAA titles, including the multi-million selling Total War™ series, Creative Assembly continues to build an impressive portfolio of games with an as-yet unannounced FPS-IP and world-renowned partnerships; with Games Workshop on Total War™: WARHAMMER®, Twentieth Century Fox on Alien: Isolation, plus 343 Industries and Microsoft on Halo Wars 2. Creative Assembly has, with their exceptionally talented team of over 700, amassed a wealth of awards including multiple Best Place to Work awards and accolades from BAFTA, Music+Sound and Develop’s Industry Excellence awards.

Position

As Technical Designer on the project, your skills and knowledge will be important for considering long term goals of the game technology, game features, game content, production and design pipelines, and general design, as well as short term issues like feature changes and re-purposing. You will ensure you contribute to high quality feature development that provides long term value to Total War.

On a day to day basis, you will:

  • Be involved at all stages of the development process, from concepting to production
  • Consistent communication ties with the Technical Design team as a whole to co-ordinate and share technology, tools, and expertise including coaching the use of new features
  • Bridging communication between disciplines, projects, and games teams
  • Help update and support already released games; making good use of your design and technical skills combined
  • Create and maintain robust script architectures
  • Collecting design requirements from the design team and translating these into long-term sustainable feature and technology designs
  • Building tools and pipelines to streamline content development & implementation
  • Inform and advising on technical limitations and their impacts on development, and providing alternatives and fallbacks
  • Constantly monitoring design implementation processes and searching for opportunities to improve or streamline
  • Pushing the boundaries of existing technology to provide further value to players

Your qualification

  • Familiar with programming and programming principles
  • Experience with one or multiple programming or scripting languages
  • Strong knowledge of game design fundamentals
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Affinity for communication, both written and verbal
  • Comfortable working closely with other disciplines, especially programmers
  • Comfortable working in, and rapidly becoming familiar with, unfamiliar systems
  • Experience with source control
  • A strong desire to seek out and learn new skills and knowledge

Will be a plus

  • Experience working on live products
  • Previous Technical Design role in game development environment
  • Experience with Lua, C#, or C++

What we offer

  • Bespoke and funded relocation package for you and your dependents, with support throughout the process from our dedicated Relocation Specialist
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity, private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover and free health care screening
  • Generous holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all UK Bank holidays
  • Annual discretionary studio bonus
  • Join our award-winning education and social responsibility programme; the Legacy Project, as an industry ambassador to mentor and educate others
  • Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
  • Season ticket travel loans and cycle to work scheme with free bike servicing and discounted car valet service on site
  • Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
  • Free breakfast every day - toast, bagels, pancakes, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, smoothies, juices, milkshakes and more in our fully stocked kitchen*
  • Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme and onsite confidential sessions
  • In-studio heavily subsidised massage therapy*
  • Discounts for home technology, travel insurance, corporate gym membership, cinema tickets, holidays, trips out and Ikea vouchers, and many local businesses including estate agents
  • Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer Festival, Christmas Party plus a separate Children’s Christmas Party. We also have Cinema days and wrap parties for game releases*
  • Studio community activities such as free Japanese lessons, life drawing, creative writing, Pilates, Walking Challenges, Couch to 5k, basketball, game and movie evenings, board game club, 5-a-side football, CA Choir, Sword fighting (yes, sword fighting) and loads more*

*some of the above in-studio benefits are on hold while we work remotely during COVID-19


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