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Headquartered in Burnaby, we are assembling a world-class team of visionaries, builders, and passionate gamers who thrive on creative collaboration, technical excellence, and bold ideas. At Small Axe Studios, we believe big things start with sharp focus-and we’re crafting an exceptional, player-first experience from the ground up. If you’re ready to tackle unique challenges, leave your mark on a brand-new IP, and help shape the future of interactive sports entertainment, we want you on our team!\nWhat We Need\nWe’re looking for an experienced and versatile Expert Technical Designer to help drive the implementation and iteration of our gameplay systems and features. You will play a key role in bridging the gap between design and engineering-prototyping features, building robust content workflows, and ensuring technical feasibility for our sports-focused core fantasy experience.\nAs an Expert Technical Designer, you’ll work across disciplines to bring features to life-from paper design to implementation-and guide the team in crafting flexible, scalable systems. You’ll be instrumental in building our toolsets, scripting gameplay behaviors, and helping define the future of how we build and iterate on gameplay content.\nThis role reports to the Design Director (Core Fantasy) and collaborates with engineering, design, and production leadership to deliver compelling, player-driven experiences.\nWhat You’ll Do\nPrototype and Implement Gameplay Systems\nDesign and build functional prototypes in collaboration with engineers and gameplay designers\nImplement and iterate on gameplay mechanics, core loops, and systemic features using visual scripting or other proprietary tools\nEnsure technical feasibility of design solutions while maintaining creative goals\nOwn Technical Implementation of Features\nCollaborate with designers to translate high-level concepts into robust in-game behaviors and systems\nScript game logic, define system flows, and integrate features into live builds\nAct as a technical point-of-contact for feature teams, identifying dependencies and integration risks early\nOptimize Workflows and Tool Usage\nPartner with tools engineers to improve designer workflows and content pipelines\nDevelop best practices and reusable templates for design teams to improve iteration speed and reduce bugs\nIdentify inefficiencies in data structures or tool usage and recommend improvements\nMentor and Support Other Designers\nProvide technical guidance to other designers and help raise the team’s scripting and tool proficiency\nReview and troubleshoot design implementations and help resolve blockers across features\nChampion technical documentation and help maintain a healthy tech design culture\nLead a Team of Technical Designers\nBe a Craft Lead for fellow Technical Designers and lead the hands-on technical approach of implementation\nTake on people management duties for other Technical Designers\nCollaborate Across Disciplines\nWork hand-in-hand with engineering to ensure designs are performant, scalable, and shippable\nPartner with animators, audio, and UI/UX teams to deliver features with high-quality execution\nContribute to design planning, backlog grooming, and prioritization of technical work\nChampion the Core Fantasy Vision\nEnsure technical design solutions reinforce the overall player experience goals\nHelp prototype and validate systemic interactions that create emergent or player-driven outcomes\nContribute to creative problem-solving that enables new gameplay opportunities\nWhat Will Make You A Great Fit\n7+ years experience in technical design or related gameplay implementation roles\nDeep expertise with scripting systems (e.g., Unreal Blueprint)\nProven ability to implement complex gameplay systems from prototype through ship\nStrong understanding of game systems, mechanics, and their interactions\nExperience working in collaboration with engineers, especially on feature integrations\nExcellent problem-solving, debugging, and optimization skills\nStrong documentation habits and ability to explain technical solutions to non-technical teammates\nA proactive, collaborative attitude and a passion for empowering creative teams\nBeneficial Qualifications\nExperience working on sports games or other systemic titles\nFamiliarity with content pipelines, modular design approaches, or data-driven systems\nExperience with tool development or technical design documentation\nExperience in performance profiling and optimization on console/PC\nBackground in programming or computer science is a plus\nThe pay range for this position in British Columbia at the start of employment is expected to be between CAD $118,300 and CAD $175,060 per Year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations. Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for employees in regular roles may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, provided that temporary or intern roles will not be eligible for many of these payments or benefits. Details of participation in compensation and benefit plans (if applicable) will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need reasonable accommodation.\nPlease note that 2K Games and its studios never uses instant messaging apps or personal email accounts to contact prospective employees or conduct interviews, and when emailing, we only use 2K.com accounts.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6148,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Console Games","PC Games","Game Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-18T14:59:59Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":79,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.878,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":56,"expected_fill_days":83,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":124662,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/2k-expert-technical-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/2k-expert-technical-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T23:41:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31790,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":46865},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=46865"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2F2k-expert-technical-designer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2F2k-expert-technical-designer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2F2k-expert-technical-designer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/2k-expert-technical-designer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2F2k-expert-technical-designer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1032916}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"2k.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1032916},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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