Teams at Insomniac Games

Leads UX research for a AAA game title, defining research goals, test plans, surveys, and session formats. Conducts and moderates qualitative and quantitative studies, including playtests, focus groups, interviews, RITE, A/B testing, and narrative testing. Presents findings through reports, dashboards, and stakeholder presentations to guide development decisions. Collaborates with development teams, analysts, recruitment agencies, and external research partners, while advocating for accessibility and mentoring junior researchers.

Designs, prototypes, implements, balances, and polishes enemy AI, mini-bosses, and boss encounters. Collaborates with gameplay programmers, animators, mission designers, and combat teams in a cross-disciplinary pod. Documents gameplay systems, incorporates feedback, supports mission design through training and model encounters, and contributes to game-wide combat quality, difficulty, differentiation, and playability.

Leads the creative vision, design, prototyping, implementation, tuning, and polish of playable hero characters across combat, traversal, controls, camera, abilities, and progression. Collaborates with programmers, animators, artists, narrative, mission, and systems teams to deliver high-quality third-person gameplay. Owns character design standards, mentors designers, drives innovation in development tools, coordinates milestones, and ensures consistent quality across the project and studio.