Senior Quest Designer

Build Worlds at Bethesda!

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 around, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Senior 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

• Coordinate with design team and leadership to ensure consistency, scope, and quality of content

• Work closely with all departments (Art, Code, Design, Production) to ensure quest content meets established goals

• Take on moderately challenging content and features and complete it with occasional supervision.

• Own features or small content package as an Individual Contributor, including providing accurate scope, estimates, evaluating risks as well as the requirements needed.

• Take full responsibility and tests your own content thoroughly and ensure testing by other disciplines is done accurately.

• Regularly play game content and provide constructive feedback to fellow designers to help improve the product

• Mentor mid-level and junior designers with guidance and feedback.

• 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 enjoy working in well-established worlds, leveraging existing lore to create novel experiences

• You have excellent writing skills and can edit/proofread your work

• You’re proficient with text-based scripting languages

• You possess excellent communication, collaboration, 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, shepherding features from inception to ship

• You meet deadlines on or ahead of schedule and can negotiate due dates with leadership as soon as problems arise.

• You can identify less obvious problems from both player feedback and game-related metrics data and provide solutions that mitigate risks all while fitting within some project constraints

• You can work independently and show initiative in reaching out to leadership when you need clarification or have comments.

• You can adapt your designs to the feedback of product owners and communicate the changes and intentions to the team.

• You understand how your content fits into the wider vision of the game and can prioritize your work based on project needs and creative constraints.

• You can effectively pitch your ideas to the team.

• You can represent Design within a cross-discipline feature team.

• You have previous experience shipping, doing updates on or working on AAA games

• You have good knowledge of game design, including hands-on experience with the full life cycle of game development from production to post-launch.

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

Senior Quest Designer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $75,000 - $165,000 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.