Playground Games

3D Artist

• Capture, solve, retarget, and polish both facial and full-body mocap data for cutscenes, ensuring high-quality, believable performances.
• Iterate rapidly on cinematic layout to enhance visual storytelling, refine pacing, and support narrative impact.
• Work closely with the Lead, Director, and cinematic team to incorporate feedback and align animations with the overall creative vision.
• Implement cinematics into our proprietary engine, ensuring seamless integration with gameplay and overall flow.

Senior Cinematic Animator – Contract

Designer

• Act as a champion of quality across the team
• Work with various disciplines to implement key systems and features
• Use visual scripting and proprietary tools to build content in Fable
• Collaborate with a highly motivated, talented cross-discipline team to deliver content to expectations

Game Designer

• Own and drive key areas of the design
• Contribute to the development of processes and pipelines
• Act as a champion of quality across the game
• Use custom, proprietary engine and tools to implement systems and features to the highest standard
• Create and maintain high-quality feature and system designs
• Work with a highly motivated, talented cross-discipline team

Senior Game Designer

• Design and animate motion graphics for trailers, social content, livestream overlays, and community campaigns.
• Capture and edit high-quality game footage and screenshots from various platforms (Console, PC, in-engine).
• Collaborate closely with the directors, capture artists, and developers to stage, compose, and capture compelling game material.
• Edit and produce engaging video content using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects for both internal and external purposes.
• Develop storyboards, visual concepts, and 2D art assets for video and motion content.
• Apply strong graphic design principles to all visual outputs, ensuring clarity, consistency, and brand alignment.
• Work with the team to define and maintain the visual style of marketing and community assets.
• Review and refine video, motion, and graphic content based on feedback from stakeholders, ensuring high standards of quality and alignment with creative vision.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in motion design, gaming, and digital media.

Motion Designer – Contract

Engineer

• Design and implement state of the art rendering systems and techniques in our custom, proprietary engine
• Maintain and extend existing rendering systems
• Work with Content and Tech Art teams to deliver cutting edge visuals and great rendering performance
• Improve and optimise rendering systems to ensure they are within budget
• Empower Content teams to create high quality content
• Ensure rendering systems scale and perform well on all supported platforms

Senior Rendering Engineer

Recruitment

• Screen CVs and portfolios, helping shortlist strong candidates for hiring teams
• Coordinate interviews and act as a point of contact between candidates and interviewers
• Source candidates through various channels, including job boards, LinkedIn, online communities, events, and referrals
• Draft and post job descriptions in alignment with hiring managers
• Support employer branding efforts across social media, job platforms, and at industry and education events
• Assist with end-to-end recruitment for entry-level and mid-level roles across departments (art, design, engineering, production, etc.)
• Maintain and update ATS to ensure accurate candidate records
• Help deliver a positive candidate experience, from first outreach to final feedback
• Collect and organise feedback from interviewers and follow up with candidates promptly
• Conduct research and collate information and present findings on potential new job boards, diversity recourses, industry events and conferences
• Establish strong working relationships with Recruitment, HR Teams and hiring managers

Senior Cinematic Animator – Contract

Game Designer

Senior Game Designer

Motion Designer – Contract

Senior Rendering Engineer

Associate Recruiter