Top Design Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the design and implementation of complex multiplayer game features, especially reward loops, game economies, and systemic content. Drive features from concept through execution, iterate rapidly in-engine, align cross-functional teams, and provide design leadership. Analyze economy models and player behavior, respond to feedback, mentor peers, and improve competitive PvP gameplay experiences under production constraints.

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Translate UX designs into performant gameplay implementations, establish architecture and workflow standards, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, evaluate new tools, and mentor technical designers. Contribute to hiring, onboarding, technical roadmaps, and the growth of the UI technical design function across multiple platforms.

Develop production-ready character concepts from exploration through final designs, translating ambiguous briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Create sketches, turnarounds, style guides, and supporting documentation; collaborate with art and cross-functional teams to support 3D production; mentor artists; improve workflows; and independently manage complex assignments and priorities.

Lead a gameplay feature team for an online multiplayer game, setting scope, design objectives, sprint priorities, and execution standards. Manage, mentor, and provide feedback to designers while aligning cross-functional teams on tradeoffs and dependencies. Design and lead integrated multiplayer systems, evaluate player feedback, support live-service development, and ensure cohesive implementation across UI, art, engineering, audio, and VFX using Unreal Engine and Blueprint scripting.

Lead Animator creates and implements high-quality in-game animations in Unreal using animation systems and Blueprints, sets up blends/overlays/events, prototypes gameplay animation, mentors and leads animators, defines animation standards, collaborates with technical artists and production, and helps plan and estimate animation work while escalating artistic issues as needed.

Lead and mentor a team of level/world artists to create high-quality, stylized environments. Collaborate with Art, Design, Narrative, and Engineering to maintain artistic consistency, manage workflows, schedules, asset lists, and support career growth and cross-disciplinary communication for a AAA game.

Update and optimize character body and facial rigs for NBA 2K, improving deformation and anatomical accuracy. Build node networks, implement blendshapes and corrective shapes, create skinweight maps, and automate workflows with Python. Debug rigging issues, collaborate with technical artists, engineers, and art departments, and contribute to documentation, pipeline improvements, and scalable workflows.