Quest Designer

1 Month ago • All levels • Quest Design • $55,000 PA - $140,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Bethesda Game Studios is seeking a Quest Designer to create high-quality open-world quest content with engaging stories. The role involves using proprietary tools to write interactive dialogue, implement quest logic, and write in-game text. You will collaborate with senior designers and other departments to ensure content quality and consistency. Responsibilities include playtesting, providing feedback, mentoring junior designers, and maintaining existing content with bug fixes. The ideal candidate will have excellent storytelling, writing, and communication skills, experience with Creation Kit and text-based scripting (Papyrus), and familiarity with open-world games. A portfolio is required.
Must have:
  • Excellent storytelling ability
  • Excellent writing and editing skills
  • Experience with Creation Kit
  • Familiarity with text-based scripting (Papyrus)
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • Strong familiarity with open-world games
  • Self-driven with attention to detail
Good to have:
  • Professional Quest Design, Mission Design, or Narrative Design experience
  • Experience with interactive, branching dialogue
  • Experience creating content for roleplaying games
  • Experience with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set or GECK
  • Strong familiarity with BGS games
Perks:
  • Competitive salaries
  • Generous benefits program
  • Healthcare benefits
  • 401(k) plan and company match
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage
  • Basic life insurance
  • Wellbeing benefits
  • Paid vacation time
  • Paid sick and mental health time
  • Several paid holidays

Job Details

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Quest Designer, you will…

  • Create high quality open world quest content that tells engaging stories
  • Use proprietary toolset to write interactive, branching character dialogue, implement quest logic, write in-game books, quest log entries, item descriptions, and other player-facing messages
  • Work closely with senior quest designers to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content
  • Work closely with all departments (Art, Code, Design, Production) to ensure quest content meets established goals
  • Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers to help improve the product
  • Help provide mentorship and guidance to more junior Quest Designers.
  • Maintain existing content and make required bug fixes

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

  • You have excellent storytelling ability, especially in back-and-forth dialogue between characters
  • You have excellent writing skills and can edit/proofread your work
  • You have experience with Creation Kit
  • You are familiar with text-based scripting languages (specifically Papyrus)
  • You possess excellent communication and documentation skills
  • You have strong familiarity with a variety of open world games
  • You are self-driven, with a strong focus and attention to detail

You must provide a portfolio featuring examples of your work 

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

  • You have professional Quest Design, Mission Design, or Narrative Design experience
  • You have experience with interactive, branching dialogue
  • You have experience creating content for roleplaying games
  • You have experience with The Elder Scrolls Construction Set or GECK
  • You have strong familiarity with BGS games

Salary Range

Quest Designer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $55,000 - $140,000 per year.

           

ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

This position is in a union and represented by the Communication Workers of America.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.

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