Senior Cinematic Designer

Summary

Join ArenaNet as a Cinematic Designer to craft compelling visual storytelling experiences in games. You will work with various teams to create and implement cinevents, gameplay cues, and UI prompts, ensuring seamless transitions between cutscenes, dialogue, and gameplay. Responsibilities include setting up and maintaining cinevents in Unreal Engine, collaborating with other designers and engineers, and refining cinematic design pipelines. You will need a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, along with extensive experience in cinematic work for games and Unreal Engine. A strong portfolio showcasing storytelling skills is essential. This remote-friendly role is based in Bellevue, WA, offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in cinematic work for games
• 2+ years of design-related experience
• 3+ years of Unreal Engine experience
• At least one shipped title using Unreal Engine and Sequencer
• Portfolio demonstrating strong understanding of choreography, timing, editing, and design, with an emphasis on telling heartfelt character stories
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate, taking direction from stakeholders on the needs of the scene
• Able to collaborate with engineering, tools, and tech art teams to find good technical solutions
• Experience with Autodesk Maya

Responsibilities

• Working with the cinematic, narrative, design, and technical leadership, drive and construct the visual storytelling of cinevents and other cinematic design elements
• Utilizing the Unreal Engine, set up and maintain cinevents and dialogue scenes from start to finish: from layout to final implementation
• Help hook up cinematic moments (cutscenes, cinevents, dialogue scenes) into the level and story design, ensuring good flow between design into a cinematic and back again
• Help identify moments to plus the player experience and autonomy within the story using cinematic elements
• Work with production and cinematic leadership to identify needed assets, calling out for new asset creation (cinematic animation, vfx, audio, etc), to complete cinevents and other cinematic design elements
• Help refine the pipeline and processes for cinevents and dialogue scenes, and maintain supporting documentation
• Assist with motion capture sessions that support cinematic content
• Validate and test the cinematic design to ensure bugs are spotted early

Preferred Qualifications

• Good storyboarding skills
• Passion for games and storytelling

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Short and long term disability
• 401(k)
• Flexible and dependent care spending accounts
• PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave