Level Designer

Job Description

At Amazon, we believe that games and connected experiences are the future of entertainment. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future's most influential voices in media and art, come join us!

We are looking for a Level Designer to join our New World team at Amazon Games, Orange County. New World is an open world MMO set in an alternate version of the 17th Century where players will fight for survival as they explore and conquer the mysterious island of Aeternum.

As a Level Designer on the Seasons team you'll be responsible for creating, implementing, and curating Points of Interest (POIs), encounters, and puzzles for seasonal content. You will work collaboratively with world builders, AI designers, and quest designers to support storytelling and make memorable points of interest for players to explore. You will be instrumental in efforts to grow holiday and seasonal events with new experiences for players to enjoy every year. It will be a combination of your experience, and an understanding of MMO/RPG world and encounter design that will define success. We are looking for individuals that are highly motivated and passionate for games.

In this role you will…
• Create fun and exciting encounters and spaces for players to adventure within
• Create and maintain Design Documentation while working across teams.
• Update and manage data for characters, rewards, and lore
• Design and Script Objectives, Puzzles and Gameplay
• Create 2D maps for world and encounter designs and implement them in game
• Work within technical pipelines and processes to ensure quality and scope are met and maintained
• Collaborate with quest, character, and art teams
• Maintain a strong creative relationship between production, design, programming, art, VFX, and SFX teams
• Design new experiences for Holiday and Seasonal events

Key job responsibilities
Lead the Level Design effort for the Seasons team, Gameplay Implementation, Gameplay Scripting.

About the team
Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 2+ years of Game Design work experience
• 2+ years work experience with 3D world and level building tools (Lumberyard, Unreal, Unity, etc…)
• 1 shipped title in the role of Level Design
• Demonstrated Experience in a Scripting Language
• Passion for video games, in particular MMORPGs

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Game design experience in MMO and RPG games
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability and dealing with ambiguity
• Demonstrated ability to interact as part of a team
• Strong sense for creating encounters that showcase game content and mechanics
• 1+ PC MMO or RPG title(s) shipped
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $47,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $110,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r1w60y-18-223-196-59-42 in your application.