Senior Unity Game Programmer Jobs in Massachusetts

WB Games Boston’s Mobile Publishing is seeking a Senior Level Designer with a strong eye for visual design and deep experience designing action oriented playable ads. The role focuses on layout, level design, storyboarding and articulating bold beats for mini‑games that engage and attract new users to download and play our games. You will be in charge of designing and polishing game mechanics and flows of our playable ads, testing performance, and providing insights.

• Report directly to the Creative Director of the Creative Services team within Mobile Game Publishing.
• Rapidly design and create mock‑ups/storyboards of mini‑game and playable concepts for implementation and testing with UA.
• Communicate, collaborate, and give feedback to the creative team on implementation targets of playable outputs.
• Think critically, demonstrate empathy, and create recommendations for player interactions and desired themes for future playables.
• Drive collaboration with engineers, PMs, artists, and game designers to initiate and document ideation of feature needs.
• Seek reviews from stakeholders, peers, and UA to rapidly iterate upon designs, making decisions informed by feedback and user data.
• Work closely with PMM and CS Creative Director to create playable campaigns.
• Utilize AI tools to rapidly inform new playable concepts, iterations and leverage AI to streamline the playable creation process.

• Outstanding portfolio demonstrating storyboarding and examples of playable ads or small playable game concepts/levels.
• Experience rapidly prototyping mini‑games and playable ads, responsive animations using Unity game engine.
• Experience with the casual game spaces or hyper‑casual games.
• Understanding of best‑of‑class product marketing for game advertising and a pulse on game marketing design.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, both oral, visual and written.
• Research and develop engaging playable ad concepts and stay informed of market trends.

• 3-5 years as a game designer or UI/UX game designer – designing levels & interactions for casual mobile games.
• Understanding of art layout, UI, game pacing and level design.
• Knowledge of Unity, Unreal, or HTML games.
• Basic knowledge of generative AI tools such as Runway, Genini, ComfyUI, Vizcom, Nanobanana.
• Understanding of current mobile market in the midcore/hybrid casual space.

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In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Pay Range: $78,400.00 – $145,600.00 per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time, and vacation.