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Design and implement engaging content for RuneScape from initial concept through to scripting and release. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality weekly updates and maintain clear design documentation.
Requires strong working knowledge of RuneScape systems and player behaviors along with an understanding of MMORPG design principles. Candidates should have some scripting or programming experience and the ability to work collaboratively in a team.
Location: Cambridge, UK – This position can accommodate flexible working options. However, candidates must be based (or be willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our Cambridge office to be able to attend onsite as required.
Are you a creative, systems-minded designer with a passion for RuneScape and a drive to build content that millions of players will experience?
As a Junior Game Designer on the RuneScape Design team, you’ll design and implement engaging content across a variety of areas of the game from initial concept through to scripting and release. You’ll get hands-on with RuneScript, our in-house scripting language (full training provided), and quickly build the skills to bring your ideas to life in one of the longest-running MMORPGs in history.
Working within multi-disciplinary teams, you’ll contribute to weekly updates for a passionate, dedicated player community and grow your craft with the support of experienced designers around you.
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When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:
Right to Work Statement
This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship for this position, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.
About Jagex
We are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.
As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit https://www.jagex.com/ .
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities.
Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.
Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.
Inclusion & Accessibility Statement
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.
We create living, player-shaped worlds. Home of RuneScape, we build games that evolve for decades, grounded in integrity, creativity, and community. Founded in 2001, we are today one of the UK's biggest and and most respected video game developers. We're incredibly proud of our flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, and most recently Runescape: Dragonwilds, and have welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to our worlds, creating $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games connect and inspire millions of players, with additional live event, merchandise, and content experiences both inside and outside of our inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters, and as we head toward 2026 and RuneScape’s 25th anniversary, and our most ambitious era yet - we’re on the hunt for the most talented people to work across the business, and help the company to achieve its goals.
Offices: Jagex Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB4 0WA, GB
We create living, player-shaped worlds. Home of RuneScape, we build games that evolve for decades, grounded in integrity, creativity, and community. Founded in 2001, we are today one of the UK's biggest and and most respected video game developers. We're incredibly proud of our flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, and most recently Runescape: Dragonwilds, and have welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to our worlds, creating $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games connect and inspire millions of players, with additional live event, merchandise, and content experiences both inside and outside of our inexhaustible game worlds. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped. Jagex employs more than 400 people at its Cambridge headquarters, and as we head toward 2026 and RuneScape’s 25th anniversary, and our most ambitious era yet - we’re on the hunt for the most talented people to work across the business, and help the company to achieve its goals.
Offices: Jagex Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB4 0WA, GB
