Level Scripter Team Lead

DONTNOD Studios is looking for a Level Scripter Team Lead for its next project developed 100% in Montreal. You will manage a team of Level Scripters, ensuring game levels are scripted and built according to creative briefs, technical constraints, and game intentions. Your mission includes defining content creation workflows, providing creative feedback, supervising prototypes, and collaborating with programming and art teams to deliver a unified game experience.

Must Have

• Manage a team of Level Scripters (up to 5 people) with varying seniority levels.
• Implement design content creation workflows, tools, and pipelines in collaboration with other departments.
• Define best practices, provide guidance, creative and scripting feedback, and coordinate with other departments.
• Oversee feedback implementation from directors, narrative designer, playtests, and analyses with Level Scripters.
• Supervise prototype creation in collaboration with programmers to test and refine gameplay mechanics.
• Collaborate with programmers to build the technical roadmap, linking technical and creative aspects.
• Ensure levels appear lively, natural, exciting, and immersive, focusing on orchestration, animation scripting, character/AI routines, and event pacing.
• Create and maintain documentation describing scripting tools, best practices, and technical specifications.
• Support Level Scripters in translating design intent into gameplay logic.
• Regularly playtest content to ensure it meets quality, design standards, and stability requirements.
• Coordinate with other disciplines, including art, programming, and narrative, to integrate elements into a unified game experience.
• Collaborate with the production team to manage level scripting resources, sprint planning, and high-level roadmaps.

Perks & Benefits

• Possibility to work anywhere in Quebec
• Insurance coverage and telemedicine from day 1
• Annual bank of 40 hours for menstrual leave
• Partial reimbursement of transport costs (OPUS, BIXI, and parking)
• Access to gym and fitness classes, plus a multi-sport field (ice rink in winter)
• Referral bonus
• RRSP with employer contribution
• Flexibility
• Generous leave bank
• Right to disconnect
• Career development support
• Personalized lifestyle expense account

Company Description

Founded in 2020 as the Canadian subsidiary of DON’T NOD Entertainment, DON’T NOD Montréal is located in the creative Mile-Ex district of Montreal.

We specialize in narrative games where player decisions influence the story and emotions experienced. Our first original project, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (2024), illustrates our passion for authentic and endearing characters, emotional depth, and cinematic storytelling.

Joining DON’T NOD Montréal means integrating a community of passionate creators, committed to creativity, empathy, and quality. We respect equal employment opportunity principles and are committed to a non-discrimination hiring policy. Our teams are intentionally kept small to foster professional growth and personal development for everyone.

Discover the immersive and innovative world of the studio on the website dont-nod.com

Job Description

DONTNOD Studios is looking for a Level Scripter Team Lead to work on its next project developed 100% in Montreal.

Why join us?

• You want to participate in Don’t Nod Montréal’s next narrative project.
• You wish to join a diverse and committed team, both in its culture and in the content of the games it creates;
• You are looking for a studio whose controlled size maximizes iteration efficiency, simple human interactions, and the individual satisfaction of each team member;
• You would like to put your communication and organizational talents at the service of the team's well-being and efficiency and its project.

What will be your job?

Reporting to the Project Producer, you will manage the team of Level Scripters and ensure that the game levels are scripted and built in accordance with creative briefs, while respecting technical constraints and the game's core intentions.

Your mission will be:

• Manage a team of Level Scripters (up to 5 people), with different levels of seniority;
• Implement design content creation workflows, tools, and pipelines in collaboration with other departments;
• Define best content creation practices, provide guidance, give creative and scripting feedback, and coordinate with other departments when necessary;
• Oversee feedback from directors, the narrative designer, playtests, and analyses with Level Scripters: implementation, discussions, compromises, etc.;
• Supervise the creation of prototypes in collaboration with programmers to test and refine gameplay mechanics;
• Collaborate with programmers to build the technical roadmap: help bridge the gap between technical and creative, and support the definition of priorities necessary for design objectives;
• Ensure that levels feel alive, natural, exciting, and immersive: focus on orchestration, animation scripting, character/AI routines, pacing of scripted events, etc.;
• Create and maintain documentation throughout the development process describing scripting tools, best implementation practices, and technical specifications;
• Support Level Scripters in translating design intent into gameplay logic;
• Regularly playtest content to ensure it meets quality requirements, design standards, and stability requirements;
• Coordinate with other disciplines, including art, programming, and narrative departments, to integrate different elements into a unified game experience;
• Collaborate with the production team to manage level scripting resources, sprint planning, high-level roadmaps, and schedules.

Qualifications

What skills should you have?

• More than 5 years of experience in the video game industry as a Level Scripter or similar position;
• More than 3 years of successful experience managing a team of designers or Level Scripters;
• Proven experience working on at least two complete production cycles of published video games;
• Proven experience with Unreal Engine 5 and good knowledge of Blueprint;
• Great rigor, analytical mind, good ability to react in an iterative environment, and flexibility to change;
• Technical affinity with basic programming knowledge and/or technical constraints in the video game industry;
• Ease in communication, collaboration, and presentation with different team members;
• Experience working across the entire design spectrum (game, level, and technical design) using visual scripting tools;
• Excellent knowledge of adventure games that feature strong narrative, dialogue, and storytelling components;
• A developed sense for scene orchestration and rhythm, animation scripting, character/AI routines to create content that feels alive and responsive.

Additional Information

At DON’T NOD Montréal, we celebrate diversity and inclusivity in our games, but also in our teams. We respect equal employment opportunity principles, and that is why we encourage women, people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, Indigenous people, people with disabilities, visible minorities, as well as any other person who can contribute to the diversity of our studio to apply for our positions.

We build human-sized teams to encourage the professional development of each of us.

Our teams benefit from many advantages, including flexibility, a generous leave bank, the right to disconnect, and career development support, as well as a personalized lifestyle expense account.

Other benefits included:

• The possibility to work anywhere in Quebec;
• Insurance coverage and telemedicine from day 1;
• An annual bank of 40 hours for menstrual leave;
• Partial reimbursement of transport costs (OPUS, BIXI, and parking);
• Access to the gym and fitness classes, plus a multi-sport field in summer that transforms into an ice rink in winter;
• Referral bonus;
• RRSP with employer contribution.