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Lead World Designer (remote)

What You'll Do:

• Manage and guide a team of designers to ensure every level and world achieves its full potential
• Champion a cohesive level design vision that upholds the game’s pillars
• Translate Director level goals into plannable, actionable, and trackable tasks for your team to ensure feedback is executed
• Develop and oversee the rules and metrics for gameplay spaces
• Use Unreal Engine 5 to design, whitebox, validate, iterate, and polish game worlds that deliver valuable experiences to players
• Use Unreal Blueprints to prototype, script, implement, tune, and debug your level design features
• Collaborate with other departments to integrate them into the level design pipeline ensuring all needed resources are accounted for in the production schedule
• Share knowledge, maintain relevant documentation, mentor other designers, and raise the studio’s competence in level design
• Regularly playing the game and providing constructive feedback to other members of the team
• Uphold our company values and participate in interviews to build out the Disruptive team

What You'll Bring:

• 10+ years of professional video game industry experience
• Completed at least two full product cycles on prominent game titles (PC and Console)
• Experience as a Lead, Principle, or Senior World or Level Designer on a shipped 3D title (PC and Console)
• At least one shipped title using Unreal Blueprints
• Experience in Multiplayer/Online game development
• Experienced planner with a deep understanding of game development pipelines to ensure that level designs integrate smoothly with both other departments and the overall game.
• Strong knowledge of game design, design theory, existing game mechanics, and how they interact with level design
• Strong problem solving as well as problem identification skills
• Ability to deliver negative feedback while maintaining a work atmosphere that encourages creative but calculated risks
• Self-motivated and eager to contribute in many different areas of development
• Ability to learn new tools and workflows
• Ability to work autonomously and push features to completion while meeting deadlines
• Strong cross-departmental communication skills, especially in a remote work environment
• Avid Gamer, with a wealth of knowledge across a wide range of games and a passion for multiplayer games

Bonus Points:

• Computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related degree
• Fluency in C++ or C#
• Expertise in more than one design specialization field (e.g. AI, camera, characters, combat, 1st or 3rd person shooters, levels, open world, racing, roguelike, RPGs, simulation, systems, etc)
• Experience with Unreal Gameplay Ability System (GAS)
• Experience with vehicles
• Experience with outsourcing vendors and co-development studios
• Shipped at least 1 game with online features
• Experience supporting a live service title

Disruptive Games is a fully remote studio with employees all over the world. Regardless of where you live, we ensure you’re paid a fair market rate. Our salary offers are informed by market compensation data, which takes into account each positions unique job function and your location.

Health, vision, and dental insurance plans

Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

401(k) with matching contributions

New hire home office set up

Flexible work schedules

Incredible, collaborative team

Engaging virtual office environment

Disruptive Games is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, interview, and hire people of all backgrounds, orientations, identities, and expressions.