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Senior World Designer - Diablo IV | Albany, NY or Irvine, CA
2 years ago
Team Name:
DiabloJob Title:
Senior World Designer - Diablo IV | Albany, NY or Irvine, CARequisition ID:
R011851Job Description:
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 IV team!
We are looking for a talented content designer with experience working in expansive open worlds, with a passion for and fun content for Diablo IV! Breathe life into Sanctuary, designing friendly Towns, enemy encampments, and more.
This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Albany, NY or Irvine, CA.
Responsibilities
- Design, build layouts, and implement unique side content
- Create hubs, towns, and cities and help bring them to life
- Collaborate with artists and other design groups to create the Open World
- Implement the spawning of monsters, objects, and scripted content in the Open World
- Build fun and varied content hubs using grey block assets
- Own the design vision of your content while also driving iteration based on feedback from your team, leadership, and the broader studio
- Support and mentor Junior Designers on our team
Minimum Requirements
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in game design, including senior design experience on a shipped product
- Working with visual and text-based scripting languages to author game content Working with visual and text-based scripting languages to author game content
- Working on Open World or Online Multiplayer RPG content
Knowledge & Skills
- Strong grasp of level design theories and practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Key Attributes
- Ability to bring various disciplines together to develop pipelines and deliver polished game content
- Ability to self-start and be self-sufficient while also willing to seek guidance and answers
- Ability to champion your ideas and vision
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude in a highly collaborative and iterative team environment
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
Extra Points
Experience
- Using Visual Scripting tools (such as Blueprint, Godot or Stencyl)
- Making content in any genre that uses an isometric camera
- Creating cooperative gameplay content in multiplayer open world games
Knowledge & Skills
- Authoring game content using the Lua scripting language
Required Application Materials
- Resume
- Cover Letter, including
- What games you are currently playing
- Your experience with PC and console role-playing games
- (Optional) Portfolio or examples of prior design work
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.
At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences…ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard “secret recipe,” but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.
The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.
Rewards
We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
- Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
- Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/ .
In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80,800.00 - $149,400.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.
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