Senior Ambient Designer
Job Description
- Craft compelling activities that bolster the variety of open world gameplay experiences
- Design and implement fully realized ambient character behaviors and interactions that bring depth, texture, and believability to a living, breathing world
- Craft ambient content that creates memorable storytelling moments in a wide emotional range, from tragic to heartfelt, from frightening to cathartic, from thrilling to somber
- Help drive the vision for world spaces, ecologies, and theming of game systems
- Evaluate and implement story concepts, step by step gameplay, ecosystems, characters, cinematics, and dialog
- Partner closely with other disciplines to ensure that content complements narrative, art, technical and design decisions
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Demonstrate versatile game design skills including documentation, planning, tuning, pacing, rewards, and scripting
- Experience in establishing high-level ecologies, ecosystems, factions, and AI behavior
- Experience with modern game engines and visual scripting (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
- A strong technical implementation background
- Sign on payment (evaluated on a case-by-case basis)
- Relocation package (evaluated on a case-by-case basis)
- Restricted stock units (evaluated on a case-by-case basis)
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Life and disability benefits
- Participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan
- Up to 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on tenure)
- Up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year
- Up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year
About the Hiring Team
Welcome to Lightspeed LA, the first U.S.-based, AAA game development studio for Tencent Games. Lightspeed LA is focused on building open-world games that emphasize an ambitious living world, sophisticated player-driven gameplay, and mature, thoughtful storytelling. We are developing the first in a series of genre-defining titles.
Why join Lightspeed LA?
For us, it's not only about the exciting, new AAA open world game we're developing but also about team values and studio culture. We foster an open and transparent environment where everyone feels comfortable providing constructive feedback about all aspects of our games.
- We encourage the showing of work that's still in progress.
- We don't attack or question unfinished work, we celebrate its promise.
- We have a No Blame Culture where we blame the problem, not the person.
This is a safe place to fail, and we don't view failure as a negative, but as the natural result of pushing boundaries and trying new things. We create together. We face Challenges Together. We succeed together.
What the Role Entails
Lightspeed LA is looking for a highly creative Senior Ambient Designer who has a passion for building AAA open world content. This role is responsible for creating gameplay content, scenarios, characters, and systems that enrich the open world gameplay experience. As a Senior Ambient Designer, you will collaborate with Art, Design, Narrative, and Tech to bring open world experiences to life.
- Craft compelling activities that bolster the variety of open world gameplay experiences
- Design and implement fully realized ambient character behaviors and interactions that bring depth, texture, and believability to a living, breathing world
- Craft ambient content that creates memorable storytelling moments in a wide emotional range, from tragic to heartfelt, from frightening to cathartic, from thrilling to somber.
- Help drive the vision for world spaces, ecologies, and theming of game systems
- Evaluate and implement story concepts, step by step gameplay, ecosystems, characters, cinematics, and dialog
- Partner closely with other disciplines to ensure that content complements narrative, art, technical and design decisions
Who We Look For
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Demonstrate versatile game design skills including documentation, planning, tuning, pacing, rewards, and scripting
- Experience in establishing high-level ecologies, ecosystems, factions, and AI behavior
- Experience with modern game engines and visual scripting (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
- A strong technical implementation background
Why Join Us?
The expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $93,100.00 to $216,700.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Employees hired for this position may be eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Subject to the terms and conditions of the plans in effect, hired applicants are also eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, and participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan. The Employee is also eligible for up to 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on the employee’s tenure), up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year, and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year. Your benefits may be adjusted to reflect your location, employment status, duration of employment with the company, and position level. Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent
As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
Who we are
Tencent is a world-leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life for people around the world.
Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent
As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
