Lead Mission Designer

Summary

Join The Molasses Flood as a Lead Mission Designer and help shape the way we grow! This leadership position involves hiring and managing a team of designers, working across disciplines, and guiding the creation of mission design tools. You'll report to the Design Director and work on a brand new multiplayer adventure set in The Witcher universe.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years as a Designer in the game industry, including at least three as a mission, quest or level designer
• A strong sense of game balance, story-telling and pacing
• A strong background in scripting (visual or otherwise) and experience with game editors and game design tools
• The ability to communicate fluently with engineering, art, narrative and production
• Candidates must have a US or Canadian work permit or citizenship
• Curiosity, kindness, and a genuine love of lifting up your team, mentoring, and creating a positive creative work environment for those around you

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of mission designers to create a library of fun, varied and replayable multiplayer experiences
• Work with the gameplay and level design teams, to ensure the missions take full advantage of the entire design space of the game, and to ensure all our gameplay features are showcased in the best way possible
• Work closely with the Narrative team to craft fun and challenging story scenarios that are at home in the world of the Witcher
• Work with engineering to design and build a suite of mission design and world activity authoring tools, and oversee the use of those tools to create great multiplayer gameplay experiences
• Work with production to establish a mission design pipeline that spans initial prototype implementation, leadership review, playtesting, iteration and polish, and then see to it that the mission team can move content through that pipeline in a smooth and efficient way
• Collaborate across disciplines to bring the world of the game to life for the player, in an engaging and replayable way

Benefits

• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision plans available - for employees and dependents
• 401K with matching
• Company paid long & short term disability plans, and life insurance
• Profit sharing plan
• Unlimited PTO and flexible schedule
• Environmental company paid offset of employees’ carbon footprint via Wren.co