LEVEL DESIGNER (F/M/D)

JOB DESCRIPTION

As our new Level Designer (f/m/d) at Ubisoft Düsseldorf, you will be responsible for setting up and maintaining various locations in an open world, using proprietary tools with the goal of creating interesting game-play situations based on the creative vision. Environment and layout aesthetic sensibilities will help a lot in this role.

What you will do: 

• Document and create levels according to the artistic, creative and design visions. 
• Present ideas to interdependent teams (conceptualize and communicate engaging gameplay experiences). 
• Prototype different scenarios and gameplay elements to validate their pertinence and effect.
• Use integration tools to create explorable and rich gaming spaces.
• Layout your environment in detail (place activities, non-player characters, encounters, events, and other features that advance the game narratively).
• Use scripting tools to integrate narrative sequences and quest gameplay.
• Balance artistic aspects with metrics and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with level artists and animators to breathe life and beauty into your created space (composition, structure, architecture) and encourage interactions.
• Cooperate with mission designers to ensure playability and consistency.
• Develop your design based on comments from play testers and cross-functional team members (iterate, debug and optimize).

Qualifications

What you bring:

• 2+ years experience in game level design and production or equivalent (experience with action games is a plus).
• At least one shipped title (AAA games experience is a plus).
• A strong level, environment or mission design portfolio.
• A good sense of 3D game space and environmental storytelling.
• A good understanding of narrative and mission/quest flow.
• Good knowledge of level design fundamentals as it relates to modern action open-world games.
• Experience with game engines (e.g. Unreal Engine, Unity, etc.).
• Experience using visual scripting tools.
• Good communication and documentation skills.
• Experience in playing and analyzing open-world action-adventure games.
• Good critical and analytical skills; understand and adapt to received feedback.

What to send our way:

• Your CV, highlighting your education, experience and skills.
• A cover letter including your earliest starting date, expected salary and why you would like to join us. 
• Please provide a portfolio with examples of your previous work/projects - be sure to check the link is working when applying.