BioWare is about creating worlds of adventure, conflict, and companionship that inspire players to become the hero of their story. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for games as a creative, storytelling medium. Join us and help create the next groundbreaking, blockbuster Mass Effect game.
Level Design Director
We are looking for a Level Design Director. You will drive the game's overall level and quest vision, being a unifying point for game content and player experience. The Level Design Director will use their creative, technical, and single-player ARPG expertise to guide the larger picture, ensuring every mission, location, set piece, hub, layout, and player choice combine into an exciting, player-directed journey.
Reporting to the Creative Director, you will oversee an experienced level design team, guiding the group as they prototype, implement, polish and debug their spaces.
What the Level Design Director will do at BioWare:
Responsibilities:
- You will:
- Work with the core directors to agree on the narrative, gameplay and experiential vision.
- Meet with the team to brainstorm ideas, set quality benchmarks, and identify technology gaps.
- Work with partners to outline the gameplay experience (landmarks, encounters, flow rhythm, tension, pacing, variety, exploration).
- Participate in prototyping, experimenting with design features to identify opportunities and determine best practices.
- Develop gold standard missions and levels that exemplify Mass Effect's creative vision and core pillars.
- Guide and inspire the team to create unique spaces. Spaces where gameplay flow, visual composition, and narrative context form iconic, memorable experiences.
- Meet with the team to mentor and motivate the design vision.
- Work with production to identify asset dependencies, scope, and delivery schedules.
- Review content and provide feedback.
- Work with artists and the Art Director to balance technical, aesthetic, gameplay and narrative constraints.
- Using external player feedback, iterate and find solutions to identified friction points.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of level design experience with lead level design experience on at least one AAA title.
- Experience developing a Single Player level design vision.
- Drive experiential and narrative flow through a level, creating evocative spaces and iconic moments.
- Experience with nonlinear, self directed level design.
- Experience with block mesh and scripting languages. Unreal experience is a plus.
- Guide and mentor level designers at all levels of experience.
- Experience working with Creative and Technical leads to identify pipeline and design requirements.
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers.
We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more!
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