Top Design Jobs in Montréal, QC

Design and run playtests (lab and remote), create research plans and study designs, analyze qualitative player feedback and surveys, author research reports, maintain research repositories, collaborate with data science, QA and studios, and perform competitive and design analyses to inform game development.

Leads a team of character artists, establishes visual quality standards and workflows, creates reference assets in Unreal Engine, coordinates with multidisciplinary development teams, manages outsourced character production, and contributes to material pipelines, tools, scheduling, and quality oversight for a AAA BioShock game.

Leads and mentors a gameplay animation team creating high-end player-character and AI animations for a AAA game. Responsibilities include setting animation vision, improving pipelines and tools, training team members, planning motion capture, producing hand-key and motion-capture animations, supporting milestones and hiring, and collaborating across disciplines. The role requires strong expertise in gameplay animation systems, rigging, facial animation, anatomy, and animation principles.

Lead and mentor a lighting team to create dynamic, optimized real-time lighting and cinematics in Unreal Engine 5. Establish pipelines, best practices, and cross-discipline collaboration with Tech and Production to deliver AAA-quality visual results.

Lead and mentor a team of world builders and level artists to create stylized, high-quality environmental art. Collaborate with Art, Design, Narrative, and engineering leads to design modular level architecture, manage asset lists and workflows, provide feedback, and ensure artistic consistency across a AAA game project.

Collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers to create AI characters and combat gameplay, leading the AI and combat implementation process.

The Senior Combat Designer will script engaging gameplay encounters and collaborate with various teams to create immersive experiences for BioShock 4.

Define and lead the gameplay vision with the Creative Director; refine systems (3Cs, combat, AI, weapons, progression); communicate direction and feedback; work hands-on in-engine; set scope and priorities; guide and support multidisciplinary teams.

Design and build high-quality, believable 3D game environments and modular kits for a AAA BioShock title using Unreal Engine. Collaborate with cross-discipline teams, iterate on layouts to support gameplay and narrative, maintain asset libraries, ensure technical compliance, participate in look development, and take long-term ownership of environment art production and documentation.

Design and block out game worlds, use Blueprint scripting to create gameplay content, collaborate with world architects and multidisciplinary teams, solve cross-disciplinary gameplay sequences from concept to completion, mentor junior designers, and implement scripted and systemic content to craft immersive, narrative-driven AAA player experiences.