Lead Mission Designer

3 days ago


California MO United States Absurd Ventures Full time

Summary

As Lead Mission Designer, you will be the primary vision holder and a hands-on contributor for story missions and single-player campaigns. Lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver critical path and side missions that combine best-in-class storytelling and action gameplay in an open world setting.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the design and implementation of engaging, diverse, innovative missions within a story-driven, open-world game.
  • Work closely with the narrative team to develop the flow of main story missions.
  • Develop and execute the mission design vision and strategy, ensuring that missions align with the game's overall narrative, thematic, and player experience goals.
  • Continuously seek opportunities to innovate and push the boundaries of mission design.
  • Leverage the game's open-world systems and mechanics to create dynamic and unpredictable mission experiences that adapt to player choices and actions.
  • Lead and mentor a team of mission designers, providing direction, feedback and support throughout the development process.
  • Go beyond documentation and management to lead from the trenches, with hands-on contributions to the playable experience.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and iteration.

Qualifications

  • 5 or more years of experience in mission design, ideally within an open-world game.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
  • Innovative thinker with creative problem-solving skills who thrives in a collaborative team environment.
  • Strong understanding of storytelling and narrative design.
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary teams is a plus.
  • Experience in UE4 or UE5 is a plus.
  • Experience working with co-development partners is a plus.

Description

  • Full time job with benefits
  • Role is on-site in Santa Monica, CA or San Rafael, CA

The base pay range for this position is $125,000 to $165,000 per year. Actual compensation is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a competitive package of benefits including paid time off, sick time, company holidays, parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

About Absurd Ventures

Absurd Ventures is a media company creating new IP across all platforms and for all formats. Absurd Ventures is building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a variety of genres, without regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation; video games and other interactive content; books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts.

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