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Lead Content Designer - Unannounced Project

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Who’s up for an adventure?
Our small yet ambitious team is looking for a Lead Content Designer to join our crew. Do you like exploring new ideas? Leveling up your skills? Being a great teammate? Then read on!

Here at Blizzard, we pride ourselves on having the passion, drive and creativity to forge amazing worlds and experiences for our players to dive into! To accomplish these epic goals, we need smart, collaborative people with exceptional talents. We are looking for a talented and experienced designer to join our team working on a brand-new project. If you have a passion for game development and want to participate in the future of Blizzard, we want to hear from you!

The ideal candidate presents designs that blend compelling gameplay and storytelling to help us create play areas, quests, characters, and dialogue for an unannounced project. This person must be able to collaborate within design, audio, localization, art, worldbuilding, and engineering groups to efficiently and creatively implement story-focused content.

COVID-19 Hiring Update: We’ve transitioned to a work-from-home model, and we’re continuing to interview and hire during this time. This role is expected to begin as a remote position. We understand each person’s circumstances may be unique and will work with you to explore possible interim options.

Responsibilities:

• Champion a clear vision for mechanically and narratively interesting missions within an established Blizzard IP.
• Own the narrative experience for a new Blizzard game.
• Lead other designers to craft a framework to support replayable narrative content.
• Work closely with engineers to design tools and a pipeline to generate missions.
• Mentor other designers and provide feedback to help them grow.
• Collaborate with art, engineering, sound, design, and outside partners to implement your vision.
  Have fun making something awesome with a great team!

Minimum Requirements

Experience:

• Proven experience leading a design team.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to craft engaging narratives and design mechanics to support them.

Key Attributes:

• Strong communication skills to inspire and enable others to execute on your vision.

Extra Points

Experience:

• Experience with world building and writing for role playing games.
• Experience with programming in C# or in scripting languages like LUA.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge of Blizzard worlds and gameplay values.
• Demonstrated ability to craft single player missions, quests, stories, characters, and events within game development toolsets.
• Working knowledge of technical writing and editing.
• Experience creating quests, points of interest, and characters within a shared world.
• Experience creating and running pen and paper RPG campaigns, and/or live-action RPGs.

Key Attributes:

• A love of RPG games (tabletop or computer).

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover letter, including a list of games you are currently playing
• Portfolio or examples of prior design work or writing

Blizzard Entertainment is a global company committed to growing our employees along with the business. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye on providing a true work/life balance. We’ve worked hard to foster an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and training and opportunity for professional growth. Our people are everything. Our core values are real, and our mission has never changed. We are dedicated to creating the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Join us!

Job Status: Full-Time
Primary Location: United States-CA-Irvine

Blizzard Entertainment is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.