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# Senior Game Designer d3t - 12 Month Contract

- **Company:** Keywords Studios Plc
- **Location:** Gateshead, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Documentation System, Atlassian Tools, Unreal Engine
- **Published:** May 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=791e2841628b19b2

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Unreal Engine?, Essential skills:

 * 5+ years experience, with proven released projects in a senior design or equivalent position
 * Strong hands-on experience in a major modern engine (e.g. UE5 blueprints)
 * Demonstrable knowledge and experience of broad design work and feature ownership, ideally across multiple genres
 * Excellent written and verbal communication skills including some presentation skill
 * Ability to organize and structure your own work and that of the team
 * Ability to adapt to changing situations with a flexible and professional attitude
 * Hungry to learn and expand your areas of expertise
 * A calm, positive and professional attitude alongside excellent time-management and organisational skills.
 * Team player, with the ability to work as part of a diverse, fast-moving team
 * Passion, energy, and infectious enthusiasm for videogames and development
 * Great attitude: we value cultural fit, creativity, and positivity here.

Desirable skills:

 * Ability to work in other engines outside of Unreal: Unity, Decima, Frostbite, or proprietary engines for example
 * Experience working with industry-standard tracking and documentation tools like Jira and Confluence, or equivalents
 * Some experience in client-facing roles, including pitching experience

## Description

* Become a key part of the Game Design team here, contributing and owning game features, components, and broad-spectrum design for AAA Co-Dev videogame projects across a wide range of genres.
 * Exhibit excellent Design know-how across the whole development process, from the first Post-It note to the final shipping design.
 * Be agile and flexible, able to adapt quickly to new design problems, and build within a broad spectrum of areas and genres as a busy Co-Development team requires.
 * Become a key part of ideation, prototyping, refining and finishing design features alongside internal teams and external client resources.
 * Work to design, iterate, test and ship your work across PC and Console, maintaining a high degree of quality throughout.
 * Exercise good design practices and procedures, holding yourself and the team to high production and quality standards.
 * Be the owner and champion of design work with both internal and external stakeholders, presenting and discussing work with confidence and trust.
 * Collaborate with production and Design leadership to provide accurate task estimations and assist with schedule balancing. As a Co-Developer, good time management and prioritisation is a must.
 * Above all: work within a diverse and close-knit team in a respectful, constructive manner at all times, acting as a model of respect and professionalism for others.


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