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Lead Dungeon Designer - Diablo IV

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The Minions of Hell grow stronger! Our horde of diabolically talented developers is expanding. While our backgrounds are varied, we all share a passion for the dark, gothic, and macabre. If you value a tight-knit team that celebrates self-expression and a multi-disciplinary approach, then join us on the Diablo team!

We are looking for a talented lead content designer with experience building interesting levels and crafting fun gameplay content for Diablo IV! The ideal candidate must be able to collaborate within Design, Art, and Engineering groups to create dungeons with fun and varied gameplay content.

Responsibilities

• Support, empower and mentor designers on your team
• Plan and evangelize the needs of the Dungeon Design team to supporting disciplines
• Coordinate with other design groups to integrate new content, systems, and features
• Design and maintain our procedural content pipelines and processes
• Work with multiple art teams to create new tilesets

Requirements

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in game design, including senior design experience on a shipped product
• Experience mentoring and growing new designers
• Experience playing or working on Action RPGs (not limited to Diablo)
• Experience playing or working on Open World or Online Multiplayer RPG content
  

Knowledge and Skills

• Deep understanding of level design theories and practices
• Experience working with visual and text-based scripting languages to author game content
  

Pluses

Experience

• Experience creating content for games using an isometric perspective
• Experience creating cooperative gameplay content using procedural generation
• Authoring game content using the Lua scripting language
• Experience in Pipeline development and Process improvement
  

Required Application Materials

• Resume, including:
  • Screenshots, footage, mockups or any other information regarding scripted content or level layouts
  • Direct Links or a Portfolio site are both acceptable
• Cover Letter, including
  • What games you are currently playing
  • Your experience with PC and console role-playing games

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 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!