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Level Designer

Job summary
Amazon Games is looking for a Level Designer to join our team in sunny San Diego, CA to create the awe-inspiring locales, landscape, and architecture of a brand-new scifi world for an unannounced massively multiplayer game.

As a Level Designer you’ll be responsible for creating, implementing, and curating levels and encounters. You will work collaboratively with the lead level designer, other level designers, combat designers, narrative designers, and environment artists to create memorable experiences.

It will be a combination of your experience, and an understanding of MMO/RPG level and encounter design that will define success. We are looking for individuals that are highly motivated and passionate for games.

What you’ll do
· Create fun and exciting levels and environments for players to adventure within
· Create and maintain design documentation
· Update and manage data for characters, rewards, and lore
· Own full levels from design through final implementation
· Work within pipelines and process to ensure quality and scope are met and maintained
· Collaborate with quest, character, and art teams
· Maintain a strong creative relationship between production, design, programming and art teams

Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

Basic Qualifications

· 3+ years of game level design experience
· Portfolio - Work samples from finished games or block outs showcasing composition, level flow, gameplay

Preferred Qualifications

· Passion for level design in video games
· 1+ MMO or RPG title(s) shipped
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Strong problem-solving and the ability to thrive on ambiguity
· Experience with procedural level generation
· Experience with open world design
· Experience designing multiplayer environments and levels
· Demonstrated ability to interact as part of a team
· Strong sense for creating levels that showcase game content and mechanics
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role.
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.