Senior Level Designer

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Level Design • $89,640 PA - $186,840 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Level Designer at Lightspeed Studios, you'll play a key role in prototyping, iterating, and finalizing a dynamic game world filled with exploration, discovery, and danger. Collaborating with a cross-functional team, you'll design engaging gameplay spaces, using blockout techniques, terrain sculpting, and environmental prop placement. Responsibilities include collaborating with combat and gameplay designers to create dynamic spaces, working with art and narrative teams for environmental storytelling, and conducting playtesting to gather crucial feedback. You'll be a thought leader, shaping design culture and promoting best practices across disciplines. The role requires a strong understanding of procedural content generation and an outcome-oriented design approach.
Must have:
  • 5+ years game design experience
  • 2+ years action game systems experience
  • Procedural content generation expertise
  • Outcome-oriented design approach
  • Collaboration and leadership skills
Good to have:
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • 3D modeling proficiency
  • PVP gameplay background
  • AAA+ online game experience
  • Live product experience
Perks:
  • Cross-discipline collaboration
  • Creative and collaborative culture
  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Potential for sign-on payment, relocation package, and stock units

Job Details

Business Unit

LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is made up of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology. We are focused on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy them anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.

What the Role Entails

As a Senior Level Designer working on our prototype game you will help build a dynamic world full of exploration, discovery, and danger through early prototyping, playtest, iteration, and finalization. You will bring all of your creativity, critical thinking, player empathy, technical know-how, and perseverance to bear as we attempt to craft the next great experiences for players. You will collaborate with a small tight knit cross disciplinary team to not only create great experiences for players but also work to define the design first culture needed to deliver those experiences.

  • What you’ll get to do:

    • Design fun and interesting gameplay spaces, use blockout techniques to create in game layouts, sculpt and paint terrain, and prop various environments.

    • Collaborate with combat and gameplay designers to create interesting, varied, and dynamic spaces of play.

    • Collaborate with art and narrative to unlock critical environmental storytelling.

    • Plan and execute regular playtesting of play spaces and provide key insights in how to better unlock fun.

    • Be a thought leader on the team and help build design culture within the design group and promote good design thinking among all disciplines.

Who We Look For

  • What we are looking for: 

    • 5+ years of experience in professional Game Design

    • 2+ years of experience working with gameplay systems in an action game environment

    • Experience working with Procedurally Generated Content

    • Can bring an outcome oriented design approach to complicated systems and mechanics. 

  • Pluses: 

    • Unreal Engine experience

    • Proficient in 3D basic modeling and the use of modeling software

    • PVP gameplay background

    • Widely played, can speak to player experiences in a wide set of genres. Can break down what makes these games work and what learnings can be applied to our project.

    • Shipped or worked on at least one AAA+ online game

    • Experience working on a live product

  • Perks: 

    • Freedom to dip your toes into other disciplines and influence others beyond the boundaries of your role. 

    • Highly creative and collaborative start-up culture. 

    • Competitive pay and benefits. 

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $89,640.0 to $186,840.0 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

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.

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