Senior Designer, World

Job Description

Senior Designer, World (2 Year - Project Temporary) (Remote)

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, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, seeks a Senior World Designer for this 2-year Project Temp role (with benefits/PTO) to work closely with the Design, Art and Production staff to create and maintain high quality game spaces. This role will focus on the designing layout, creating architecture and modular assets, implementation, and editing of world content to create interesting spaces that support the game mechanics. As well as collaborating with the rest of the design team, artists, and engineers to ensure their levels are fun, interesting, and within performance constraints.

The Daily
• Work with Lead World Designer and artists to design modular architectural assets, along with directed layout and asset population to create compelling game spaces using proprietary tools and industry standard software.
• Work with a high level of autonomy and ability to assist colleagues in designing efficient modular world content and iterate encounter layouts to support the navigational and combat goals for the game.
• Work within established level design metrics and utilize the game system to identify and resolve level design, performance, and gameplay issues.
• Investigate and resolve gameplay issues identified by QA or team members through feedback and our internal bug database.
• Help keep documentation updated, including but not limited to detailed descriptions of intended gameplay experience, workflows, and maps highlighting locations of events.

The Essentials
• Proven record of developing engaging open world content.
• 5+ years of experience in the games industry or at least two shipped title working as a world designer or similar content creation experience.
• Strong understanding and experience with 3D modeling software (preferably Max or Maya).
• Passion for games and game development.
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and the ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment.

Nice to Haves
• Previous experience designing and working on modular levels.
• Proficient at identifying and supporting gameplay needs and constraints within an encounter layout, playtest the game and help push for continued improvements for existing design and fresh prototypes.
• Basic knowledge of scripting language (XML, LUA, Python, etc.) or competency in a programming language a plus.
• Strong spatial relationships, layout design skills, and architecture elements.
• Excellent organization, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Experience with Houdini to create and implement procedural rulesets.
• Comfortable with rapid iteration based on feedback from many sources: peer review, data analytics, player surveys, etc. Capable of filtering large volumes of feedback into concrete and actionable improvements.
• Familiarity with the Wonder Woman IP.

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.

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