Senior Designer, Mission - Unannounced Game

Team Name: Unannounced Project

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

As a Senior Designer, you will be responsible for bringing to life memorable and highly engaging locations that weave excellent storytelling with satisfying gameplay. You have proven experience working in a team dynamic and are comfortable building missions from concept to ship, looking at everything from dialogue to layout composition and combat encounters. When particularly hard problems arise, you will draw upon the team's collective creativity and experience to finalize designs that meet the needs of the game.

You will collaborate with an experienced team at a fast pace with a highly iterative feedback process.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to the following responsibilities:

• Design and build captivating layouts and locations that align with the game’s narrative and gameplay goals.
• Integrate gameplay mechanics, challenges, combat, and puzzles into mission designs to enhance player engagement and exploration.
• Collaborate with other designers, artists, code, audio, VFX, and animation departments to a compelling holistic player experience.
• Deliver high-quality results and build progress towards short- to medium- to long-term deliverables/releases, from iterative prototyping to execution.
• Prototype and create engaging missions or mission components in-engine to a AAA standard that integrate player fantasy, narrative, and gameplay.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience creating missions/quests, layout, and the frameworks that missions are built from, or combination of related education and experience.
• Experience with technical design, scripting, and level design.
• Proven experience shipping AAA titles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in feature development.
• A professional understanding and competency for the Unreal engine.
• Proven spatial and layout design skills on a shipped title.
• A team-oriented approach to your work, understanding the importance of collaboration, and partnering with all departments.

Extra Points:

• Multiple AAA shipped titles.
• Experience working with large cross discipline teams.
• Familiarity with programming and scripting languages such as C++, C#, Lua, or Java Script
• A deep understanding of Open World and narrative driven games.
• Highly skilled in using Unreal Blueprint.

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and Star Craft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards.

Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via ®, Xbox, Play Station, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

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