Senior Mission Designer - StarCraft | Irvine, CA, CA

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Senior Mission Designer - STARCRAFT | Irvine, CA, CA

Star Craft

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Blizzard Entertainment is assembling a team to build the next chapter of STARCRAFT, returning to a universe forged in interstellar war. This mission offers something new: crafting an original story-driven, open-world shooter while honoring the legacy of one of Blizzard's most beloved games.

We are here to reignite this universe alongside you. We are here to make STARCRAFT, and it's about damn time.

We are looking for a Senior Mission Designer to help craft this new game for Blizzard. As a key member of the development team, you will be responsible for delivering. 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 offers a hybrid work week, with a mix of work-from-home and on-site days, based out of our Irvine studio.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft Overwatch Diablo 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.

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!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered!

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be…