343 Industries is looking for an experienced Design Director to join our Halo Team. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to impact the future of one of the industry’s most successful franchises through your creative and leadership skills.

As a Design Director, you will play a key role in the game’s development process, shepherding the game’s vision. Your ultimate focus will be on ensuring outstanding quality within the game and empowering the team to implement their incredible work. You will use the broad resources of 343 Industries and Microsoft to help create an innovative experience that brings Halo to long-time fans as well as a new audience.

Reporting to the Head of Design, the team will rely on you to communicate the vision of the game both upwards and downwards, answering questions for the team as well as at an executive level. The team will rely on you to understand and be knowledgeable about all aspects of the game and how the different pieces fit together in order to help guide them and ensure that a unified experience is created. You will work closely with the Head of Design to evaluate creative process and execution of the creative teams against the vision. At times you will roll up your sleeves and dive in to help the team build the creative when needed.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Inspire and energize the team around our vision.
• Collaborate with Design leadership to deliver on the Vision for the game.
• Help find innovative ways to leverage studio and Microsoft resources to create an extraordinary experience for our players.
• Guide, mentor, and lead the Design Team, sharing your experiences in order to create an amazing culture in which designers can grow and feel empowered.
• Evaluate, improve, or create creative processes to ensure the creative goals of the project are met.
• Set clear design goals and deliverables; lead and focus efforts across the design team to ensure a cohesive experience on all platforms and services.
• Anticipate challenges and opportunities for the project and help the team successfully navigate them
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships with all development disciplines to ensure a best-in-industry production process and team environment.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• BA or equivalent.
• 8+ years working in a design capacity on at least 2+ shipped AAA titles.
• Experience leading and managing a large design team through all phases of development from concept to ship.
• Experience as a live developer—this can include a AAA title as a live service, DLC, or any other content that furthers and enhances a game after it has shipped.

Bonus:

• A passion for the shooter genre.
• A love for and knowledge of the Halo franchise.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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