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Leads and mentors gameplay animators creating high-end player-character and AI animations for a AAA game. Establishes animation vision, pipelines, workflows, tools, onboarding, Unreal Engine 5 training, and motion-capture planning. Delivers hand-key and motion-capture animation, collaborates on production roadmaps and sprint planning, delegates tasks, resolves blockers, supports hiring, and promotes cross-disciplinary collaboration and team culture.

Leads a team of character artists while establishing visual quality standards, workflows, and exemplary assets in Unreal Engine. Manages mentoring, asset scheduling, outsourcing coordination, material pipelines, team output, bug distribution, and custom tool development. Collaborates across art, design, gameplay, animation, engineering, and other disciplines to create stylized character assets for a AAA game. Requires expert 3D creation, PBR texturing, traditional art, anatomy, and shipped game experience.

Lead global marketing for premium free-to-play mobile titles: develop and execute integrated paid/earned/owned campaigns, define positioning and creative, run A/B tests and KPIs, collaborate with Product, Data Science, UA and partners, monitor budgets, and recommend long-term strategies to grow the Mobile Sports portfolio.

Design and implement player-facing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, collaborating with design, art, animation, and audio. Architect features for player verbs, camera, weapons, and 3Cs; identify risks, maintain code quality, debug, and document systems to achieve creative goals for a AAA title.

Lead online services for a AAA cross-platform free-to-play game: set technical vision, manage Backend and Build Engineering, own release management, launch readiness, CI/CD and submission pipelines, observability and incident response, partner with Product/Analytics for experimentation and telemetry, and direct frontend online systems (authentication, matchmaking, social, commerce, player safety).

Design and implement player bots using C++ and Unreal Engine 5. Create combat, traversal, team, and humanization systems; extend the utility AI framework, optimize large bot populations for performance, and build bot evaluation and automated testing tools in partnership with design.

Lead a team of lighting artists to create and optimize real-time lighting for game scenes and cinematics. Partner with art, production, and core tech teams to define visual standards, solve technical issues, and meet runtime performance goals in Unreal Engine 5.

The Senior Combat Designer will create and script engaging gameplay encounters for BioShock 4, collaborating with various teams to ensure high-quality design and integration of combat mechanics.

Define and execute monetization strategy for live-service games: build financial models and forecasts, establish KPIs and dashboards, support live services P&L, analyze market and competitors, and partner with product, marketing, and analytics to inform commercial decisions.

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.