Design Director - RS4
Office location: Cambridgeshire, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. However, applicants should be based (or be willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.
Are you an experienced MMO design leader who knows what it takes to build a world players will want to call home for thousands of hours?
As Design Director on our newly announced MMORPG, RS4 you'll work closely with our Creative Director to turn our vision into a coherent, scalable, and sustainable MMO design for an ambitious new project in the RuneScape universe. Bringing deep, hands-on experience of building and shipping MMOs, you'll own the game's overall design architecture across progression, economy, content, social systems, endgame, and live operations, making sure every system works together as a compelling long-term player experience.
This is an exciting senior leadership opportunity to lead and grow our Design team, partnering closely with the Creative Director, Design Leads, Production, and Engineering to create a game that can be built and operated at scale, and that honours what makes RuneScape so special to millions of players.
What you'll be doing:
- Translate the Creative Director's vision and pillars into a coherent, scalable MMO experience.
- Own the MMO design architecture, defining how progr
