About the Role
Rockstar Games is seeking a Design Engineer to join our Product Design Team. This person will collaborate with other engineers, designers, and producers across departments, and enjoy working in a fast-paced work environment with attention to detail and innovative thinking.
Responsibilities
- Bridge the gap between Design and Engineering teams to implement, refine, and optimize interactions, details, and animations for digital products.
- Partner with Designers to translate ideas to code, providing feedback, solutions, and creative ideas.
- Prototype with code as a design tool to build interactive prototypes that validate ideas and accelerate decision-making.
- Work alongside Engineers to translate design concepts into performant product features, balancing ambition with scale.
- Contribute reusable interaction patterns, motion systems, and frontend components.
- Champion frontend craft, advocating for best practices in interaction design, animation, accessibility, and performance.
- Explore emerging technologies, tools, and techniques to push the boundaries of digital marketing and product experiences.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineer, Creative Developer, Design Technologist, or similar role.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a demonstrated passion for craft, polish, and creating best-in-class digital experiences.
- Advanced working knowledge of CSS, including animations, responsive design, rendering performance, browser capabilities, and modern best practices.
- Proven experience crafting sophisticated UI animations and interactive experiences using GSAP or comparable animation libraries.
- Strong proficiency with modern design tools, including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Proficiency in React and Typescript.
- Demonstrated ability to prototype and communicate ideas through code.
- Experience collaborating closely with both designers and engineers throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Portfolio required for consideration.
Skills
- CSS
- GSAP
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- React
- Typescript
- three.js
- Blender
- Cinema 4D
- WebGL
- shaders
- motion graphics
Location
- NYC headquarters in Downtown Manhattan
Work Type
- full-time
- in-office
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $121,000—$161,000 USD
Benefits
- bonus
- equity awards
- medical benefits
- financial benefits
- other benefits
About the Company
- At Rockstar Games, we create world-class entertainment experiences.
- Become part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects to be found in any entertainment medium - all within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment where you can learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
- The Rockstar Games Product Design Team creates experiences that help fuel the reach and impact of our brand and deepen players’ relationships and engagement with our innovative products.
- Our team leads a range of projects that includes (but is not limited to) websites, apps, social, and other digital marketing and engagement experiences.
- We grow and evolve the tools, features, and solutions relied upon by teams across the company to achieve business objectives on digital channels.
- Our Product Designers work iteratively and collaboratively to create best-in-class digital experiences and product features for a large-scale global audience.
Equal Opportunity
- Rockstar is committed to creating a work environment that promotes equal opportunity, dignity and respect.
- Rockstar will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities during the recruitment process.
- We encourage applications from all suitable candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, race, or any other protected category.
