Senior Level Designer – AAA Games – London UK – Permanent

OPM’s client are famous for their outstanding, team-based multiplayer games that inspire friendship, competition and teamwork.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the complete game design of an entire product or, for bigger projects, a large area of that product, driving end to end implementation across the team.
 

REQUIREMENTS:

• A deep understanding of all aspects of level design with mastery in many areas.
• Industry Experience working in a senior position while also being apart of a team while a project is being shipped.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines and experience of being a key part of a leadership group.
• A passion for environment design and architectural concepts.
• Experience of prototyping maps and gameplay mechanics using UE4, UE3, Unity, or similar.
• Experience with source-control applications (SVN, Perforce, AlienBrain, etc.)
• Experience in multiplayer level desigFn.

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Work closely with other disciplines to create and maintain fun, memorable and visually appealing levels.
• Regularly review feedback from playtests, enabling the team to drive quality in all areas of the game.
• Facilitate constant communication between team members, ensuring they understand their goals and how they feed into the bigger picture.
• Maintain up to date Level Design documentation, ensuring Level Design guidelines, best practises and metrics are thoroughly documented.
• Present your vision for the levels and your work to the team, upper management and the wider company at various stage.
• Manage, mentor and coach Junior and Regular Level Designers.
• Regularly monitor the bug database and fix issues in a timely fashion to maintain stability and ensure that your team’s levels remain playable at all times.

DESIRED:

• Unreal Script, Blueprints, Flow Graph, or other visual scripting software experience.
• Knowledge of gameplay event scripting and entity setup.
• Previous experience with Unreal Engine, UDK and Kismet.
• Experience with 3DSMax, Maya, or other professional 3D modelling software.
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop.
• Previous experience with scripting or programming language.

BENEFITS:

• Private Medical and Dental Cover for you and your family.
• Get mental health support from trained Mental Health First Aiders.
• 24/7 employee assistance helpline.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus 8 public holidays and annual closure between Christmas and New Year’s.
• Industry-leading fully paid 30 weeks maternity leave & 10 weeks paternity leave.
• Enhanced company pension contributions.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call me directly today on +44 (0) 1206 214415!