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Senior Content Designer (ESO)
1 year ago
Overview
ZeniMax Online Studios is looking for a Senior Content Designer to work with the content, world building, animation, audio, and gameplay teams to provide fun and well-conceived stories/locations for players to experience. This position will work on creating content in specific environments to create a fun and exciting game experience for the Elder Scrolls Online RPG. The qualified candidate is ready to step into mentorship or leadership roles as necessary, and take on additional responsibilities that extend throughout and beyond the Content department.
Responsibilities
- Learn to work in our proprietary toolset and become proficient quickly
- Attend and absorb content training activities as available
- Help determine/run content training activities for the department
- Work with other team members to support the design of content throughout a release, often mentoring less senior team members
- Pitch, share, and comment on content design ideas and designs-in-progress
- Take responsibility for high-profile content or content support for wide-ranging elements of the game (including supporting new systems, Main Story quests, and other new content)
- Design and script innovative quests/gameplay for ESO, with a focus on storytelling and pacing
- Pitch and collaborate on innovations to ESO’s content and storytelling with other team members, with an eye toward continual improvement in the game and content
- Collaborate with other teams and departments (Encounter, Fiction, Animation, FX, etc.) to develop content and new assets for the game
- Execute other game designs and design revisions when necessary
- Implement revisions based on feedback and bugs
Qualifications
- Minimum five years professional experience in content design, preferably in the MMO or multiplayer space
- Experience designing, building, and populating game levels
- Strong sense of the 3D game space and game flow
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Strong organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, and a keen attention to detail
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams and an understanding of content creation pipelines and tools
- Demonstrates high standards of excellence in work
- Experience playing MMOs
Preferred Skills
- Leadership or Mentorship experience a plus
- Scripting or programming interactivity
- Non-content game design experience (level design, encounter design, fiction writing, etc.)
- Work on non-MMO or multiplayer games
- Work on non-computer games (tabletop RPGs, card games, board games, etc.)
Salary Range
Senior Content Designer - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $75,000 - $165,000 per year.
ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.
At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.
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