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Lead Open World Designer, Diablo 4

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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 designer to develop and drive the vision of the world design of Diablo IV. The team focuses on fleshing out the Open World in Diablo IV, transforming it into a living, breathing place. Features include friendly towns, enemy camps, and more. The ideal candidate will be able to lead a team to collaborate within design, art, and engineering groups to efficiently implement open world focused content.

Responsibilities

• Support, empower and mentor designers on your team
• Develop and evangelize features to make Sanctuary come to life
• Manage development priorities and communicate to stakeholders across the team
• Work with Event Design and Quest Design to integrate their content into the Open World
• Work with Narrative Design to establish tone and narrative goals within content
• Coordinate with other disciplines to develop technical guidelines

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 & Skills

• Deep understanding of what makes for fun, varied and compelling open world content
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Pluses

Experience

• Experience creating content for games using an isometric perspective
• Experience with Level Design theories and practices
• Authoring game content using the Lua scripting language
• Experience in Pipeline development and Process improvement

Key Attributes

• Passion for Blizzard games, especially the Diablo series

Required Application Materials

• Resume
• Cover Letter, including
  • What games you are currently playing
  • Your experience with Open World games
  • Your experience with Diablo or other Action-RPGs

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!