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Associate Level Designer
1 year ago
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Join the award-winning team that created God of War
Do you have a passion for epic adventures set in unique worlds, filled with exciting events and gripping narrative? Is there within you a burning desire to develop your skills and craft highly polished levels that set the industry standard?
As a Level Designer, you are a critical part of production on our quality-obsessed team. You are someone who brings excitement and energizes the cross-discipline team around you. You have the talent and skills to make incredibly memorable levels, taking players on journey's that they'll talk about for years to come.
Responsibilities
In the Associate Level Designer role, you will collaborate with the Lead Level Designers and the Design Director on the following:
- Turning the vision and ‘must-haves’ of the design leadership team into in game content
- Collaborating with cross-discipline stakeholders and partners across the studio for quality outputs and results
- Modeling 3D design layout, illustrating 2D maps & diagrams, and writing design documentation
- Creating collision geometry that supports tight interactions between characters, objects, and the environment
- Maintaining, developing and implementing collision standards through collaboration with various teams and stakeholders
- Designing within established standards, conventions, and metrics that maximize the game systems and mechanics, showcasing their attributes.
- Ensuring that content is within technical goals for memory, framerate, and other engine requirements
- Implementing events and logic via scripting
Requirements
- Proficiency with 3D art packages to layout environments (preferably Maya)
- Experience with 2D art packages to create 2D maps and other visually oriented design materials (preferably Illustrator or Photoshop)
- Can use text or visual scripting systems to implement gameplay and debug game logic
- An effective communicator who is personable and flexible with their ideas
- Able to take feedback, distilling messages into actionable items that move designs and content in the desired direction
- If no industry experience, a portfolio of work samples that can be evaluated, along with a candidate’s submission
Preferred Experience
- 1 year of game development experience
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The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.
$26 — $39 USD
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
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