Lead Designer, Combat

Job Description

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We're home to the world's best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

For the past 25 years Monolith Productions has been obsessed with delivering a unique gaming experience for our fans. Starting with Blood, our very first title – all the way to our most recent offering, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, we are constantly pushing the envelope to combine innovative gameplay, inventive narratives, cutting edge tech & AI, and stunning visuals. We are challenging ourselves even further to ensure that our next project is going to be our best yet. That's where you come in – for us to achieve that, we need the best and brightest talent the industry has to offer. Help us create our next AAA title.

The Job

Join the Wonder Woman team and help bring an iconic DC Super Hero to life!

Monolith Productions, the award-winning AAA studio who brought you F.E.A.R. and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, seeks a Lead Combat Designer to be responsible for significant contributions to game design, with particular focus on the design, standards, implementation, and polish of Combat and player focused gameplay experiences. You will work with the design leadership to create compelling prototype designs that help define or support the gameplay structure. You will then guide a team to implement these designs using proprietary and 3rd party tools.

The Daily
• Work with the team and studio leadership to identify Gameplay and Combat goals and propose solutions that live within the technical constraints of our proprietary technology. Ensure combat feel is meeting all goals while iterating throughout the development cycle.
• Mentor the designers working on combat, focused on workflow improvements and implementation details, providing regular feedback on both their creative work and workflow.
• Work with the Production, Design Leads, and the Studio Leadership groups to deconstruct the combat design process, to establish measurable development phases with specified goals
• Create and maintain living documentation detailing the combat design process and standards that keeps pace with the project's progress and accurately conveys all necessary information to dependent teams.

The Essentials
• Experience working on at least 2 console/PC titles as a designer or equivalent, with at least one of those being in the 3rd person action 3rd person action/adventure genre preferred.

Knowledge/Skills
• Familiarity with a variety of editors and scripting languages.
• Comprehensive knowledge of game design principles, the computer gaming industry, and its products.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with programmers, artists, and other designers.
• Professional experience working with level design on a large-scale project.
• Effectively work under the pressure of competing demands and short timelines.
• Passion for games and game development.
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment.

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r7kk5k-18-222-179-186-42 in your application.