CREATIVE DIRECTOR (TCOV3072) - Frankfurt, Germany

Looking for an experienced Creative Director to support, enhance and bring to life the vision of multiple projects and franchises. This is a studio level leadership position. The successful candidate should understand all areas of design and production as it relates to AAA titles on Next-Gen platforms. The role of the Creative Director is to ensure high quality in the overall product or franchise, covering all areas of the discipline: game play, art, audio and design.
Job Responsibilities
- Define and support the creative vision for a franchise or multiple projects along with the appropriate directors and leads
- Champion exceptionally high but achievable production values
- Inspire, mentor and support production teams in the creation of a unified vision
- Provide input, direction and mentoring support to creative and design leads
- Enforce the creative vision throughout the development cycle
- Work with studio executives and department leads for continual process improvement
- Show a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games
- Contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Safeguard company assets including source code, art work, tools, game design information and technical know how
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon
- Additional tasks in the area of a Creative Director
- Reports to Executive Management
- Present the work of the team and the project in a professional manner
- Capable of balancing a project’s creative and visual requirements within schedule and staff limitations
- Demonstrated ability to integrate the creative and technical design processes while ensuring that high production values are never compromised
- Balance impacts of deadlines and resources against quality requirements of a title and quality of life for staff
- Passion for making games
- Technology and pipelines
- Potential impact of production-phase change requests on quality, stability and schedule

LEAD DESIGNER (TCOV3071) - Frankfurt, Germany

Requirements
- Has shipped at least one title as Lead Designer (Console a plus)
- Previous hands on experience in the implementation of game play, game play systems, and level designs (preferably level design)
- Excellent understanding of player expectations
- Superb writing skills
- Ability to work in a proactive and positive way with other department leads
- Articulate in English in both spoken and written formats
- Displays initiative and passion for creating high quality and engaging games
Pluses
- Capable of scheduling and meeting deadlines, tracking project
- Experienced and working knowledge of design tools and techniques, systemic designs
- Expert in systemic, sensory based AI Systems in Action Games
- Expert in advanced challenge designs including advanced physics, sound and graphics technologies
- Expert in emergent gameplay design, sandbox designs and simulation designs
- Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills are must
- Worked as Level Designer on two shipped action games
- Worked as a Lead Designer on one shipped action game
- Works well under pressure and is capable of multi-task tracking
Responsibilities
- Reports to the Creative Director and Development Director about all aspects of the project in order to execute the project’s production while proactively pushing the quality bar and fun factor of the title
- Directly responsible for management and inspiration of the design team on a day to day basis
- Works closely with the Lead Level Designer in overseeing and managing the level design process and production pipeline from both an aesthetic and game play perspective
- Coordinate with all disciplines (management, art, programming, audio, and animation) to ensure the project’s vision is stable and clear
- Problem solver
- Assist in any additional design documentation and in-game dialogue writing
- Has an expansive knowledge base of games of all genres and platforms
- Ability to contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Complete all tasks in a timely manner and to a consistent high quality standard
- Remains focused, motivated and effective on all tasks through completion
- Perform any other duties as assigned by Creative Director or Development Director with accountability and responsibility defined prior to the commencement of these duties

AUDIO DIRECTOR (TCOV3070) - Frankfurt, Germany

Looking for an experienced Audio Director. This is a leadership position spanning multiple projects. The successful candidate should understand all areas of sound design and production as it relates to AAA titles on Next-Gen platforms.
Job Responsibilities
- Champion exceptionally high but achievable production values
- Direct and inspire the audio team
- Work with lead game designers / producer and audio programmers to insure all sound goals for each project are met or exceeded
- Design, create and edit game sound effects using standard audio tools (Sound Forge, Pro Tools, Vegas, Acid Pro)
- Provide technical and creative direction for music, sound effects and voice recording sessions
- Able to read, understand and make minor edits to orchestral scores, some keyboarding skills desirable
- Understand 3D sound positioning, dynamic music generation techniques, working within game engine & platform limitations, and other game specific sound issues and technologies
- Coordinate and manage workflow so all milestones for all company projects are achieved in a timely fashion
- Oversee the work of external audio contractors and approve their deliverables
- Ensure all copyright and licensing issues are correctly and appropriately dealt with
- Keep up to date with new product releases to ensure quality meets or exceeds competitor’s quality standards
- Excellent writing skills to be able to make on the fly edits to VO scripts as well as edit VO recordings
- Manage and organise audio assets for a smooth localisation process
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Continue to enhance art and communications skills
- Coordinate with internal technology groups as it relates to pipeline and process
- Provide creative input, direction and mentoring / support to sound designers
- Review levels and scenes for maximum impact and audio fidelity
- Work with studio executives and department leads for continual process improvement
- Show a strong passion for making the highest quality state of the art games
- Contribute innovative and original ideas towards all aspects of game production and development
- Directly responsible for adhering to all company policies and procedures
- Safeguard company assets including source code, art work, tools, game design information and technical know how
- Work with Agile development methodologies, including SCRUM
- Takes initiative and is willing to expand own horizon
- Additional tasks in the area of Audio Director
- Reports to Executive Management
Requirements
- Credited Audio Director on a minimum of 2 shipped titles (Movie / entertainment industry experience also considered)
- 5+ years of gaming industry experience
- Demonstrated ability to be proactive and self motivated, work without direct supervision, and present the work of the team and the project in a professional manner
- Demonstrated ability to integrate the creative and technical design processes while ensuring that high production values are never compromised. Balance impacts of deadlines and resources against quality requirements of a title and quality of life for staff
- Passion for making games
Excellent understanding of
- Audio direction as it relates to games development
- Strategic allocation of resources for maximum effect
- Overall game audio design: 1. dramatic arc. 2. Music usage. 3. Dialogue usage. 4. SFX placement and mixing
- Console and PC development processes
- Technology and pipelines
- Potential impact of production-phase change requests on quality, stability and schedule

SENIOR DESIGNER (JGUT3069) - Salt Lake City, UT

Major Responsibilities
- Lead the invention, discussion & debate of game features and mechanics under the direction of the Producer.
- Collaborate and communicate ideas with various project development personnel to solicit feedback and ensure support.
- Communicate and support gameplay design information to the development team.
- Iterate with the development team to review and refine gameplay systems and implementation.
- Anticipates, identifies and articulates problem areas and develops preventative solutions.
- Responsible for managing and escalating risks the Producer in a timely manner.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional Game Design experience.
- Has shipped more than three commercial titles.
- Ability to successfully multitask under considerable pressure.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Collaborative team player.
- Creative thinker, focused on leveraging Nintendo innovation.
Pluses
- Fiction writing
- Drawing ability and/or storyboarding experience
- Specific experience developing on Nintendo platforms

LEVEL DESIGNERS (JGFL3068) - Gainesville, FL

Looking for talented Level Designers to join our production team. Working with the designers, scripters, artists, and producers, the level designer sits at the intersection of creative disciplines and has a central role in making our games fun!
Responsibilities
- Planning level structure, gameplay, and events in line with overall game design & storyline
- Creating top-down level layout in coordination with game designers
- Modeling "white-box" 3D layout in package, transferring into level editor
- Breaking down level artistic requirements into asset list
- Working with artists to ensure uniform level visuals, overseeing design & placement of final game assets into level
- Working with scripters to oversee implementation of level events
- Guiding Level designs from documentation through final implementation
- Testing & refining your level until it shines!
- Sticking production pipelines and owning deadlines while maintaining the highest quality of implementation
Skills and Abilities
- At least 2 years experience with level design, preferably at least 1 shipped title or mod work.
- Experience with 3d Studio Max or Maya for "block-out" modeling. UnrealEd experience preferred
- Strong design, planning skills
- Strong communication, documentation skills
- Highly self-motivated to focus and pro-actively complete long-term tasks
- Appreciation and understanding of all-important schedules and milestones
- Desire to operate within an energetic team-oriented atmosphere

SR. SYSTEM DESIGNER (TMCA3064) – Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities
- Participates in planning the design of all game systems, authoring and maintaining design documents, gathering reference and working with team leads to establish priorities for systems development.
- Works with the Lead Creative Designer to understand and provide feedback on the creative vision for all features and systems in the game.
- Ensures that all system designs are maintained and updated on a regular basis to reflect ongoing changes.
- Reviews and provides feedback on systems and balance game.
Qualifications
- Experience shipping games in a system design capacity
- Familiarity fantasy and science fiction literature, pen and paper role-playing, CRPGs and MMOs is a must.
- Passion for and broad knowledge of various genres and games and an ability to critically analyze them
- Ability to create innovative game systems and mechanics
- Ability to understand and balance complex game systems
- Ability to clearly and concisely define game areas and feature sets
- Willingness to take the initiative to learn new skills, and contribute wherever needed in the product development process
- Ability to work closely with artists and other designers and be responsive to feedback
- Excellent math skills
- 3 years professional design experience
Assets
- Previous experience doing system design work for computer or paper RPGs
- Has a passion for playing / creating quality video games particularly MMO and RPGs
- At least 1 shipped AAA title

SR. QUEST DESIGNER (TMCA3063) – Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities
- Participates in the planning the design of all in-game quests, authoring and maintaining design documents, gathering reference and working with the other leads on the team to establish priorities for quest development
- Works with the System Design Director to understand and provide feedback on the creative vision for all features and systems in the game
- Oversees creation of the quest design templates and quest design documents, to ensuring that all documentation is consistent and thorough.
- Manages the quest design team and ensures that all designs are maintained and updated on a regular basis to reflect ongoing changes.
- Reviews and provides feedback on all quest elements in the game.
- Trains and mentors the quest design team.
- Is responsible for communicating the direction and vision of quest content in the game and updating the team as changes occur over the course of the project.
Qualifications
Minimum of 3 years professional experience working in a design role
- Must have shipped at least one AAA quality product working in a design capacity
- Must have experience in RPG and/or Action Adventure genres
- MMO experience highly desired: MMO knowledge essential
- Strong passion for games and excellent knowledge of video games, particularly RPGs
- Excellent writing skills
- Strong decision-making and organizational skills

SR. LEVEL DESIGNER (TMCA3062) – Aliso Viejo, CA

Responsibilities
- Outline level objectives and level flow
- Development of working level design documentation, including mechanics, guidelines, mission outlines.
- Design and implement captivating game levels which leverage unique gameplay systems
- Set and maintain a high quality bar for all levels in the product
- Construction of level prototypes and final levels
- Placement and tuning of gameplay elements; triggers, AI, and other in-game elements
- Creates and lights level geometry
- Reviews/test/iterate level gameplay
Qualifications
- Experience shipping games in a level design capacity
- Familiarity with 3D tools used to create and tune game levels
- Passion for and broad knowledge of various genres and games and an ability to critically analyze them.
- A willingness and ability to contribute to a highly creative environment, to design unique levels and provide solutions to issues which may arise.
- Ability to clearly and concisely define game areas and feature sets
- The ability to understand and adapt to new technologies, including various scripting languages and proprietary tools.
- Willingness to take the initiative to learn new skills, and contribute wherever needed in the product development process
- Ability to work closely with artists and other designers and be responsive to feedback
- Has a passion for playing / creating quality video games particularly MMO and RPGs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience using 3D modeling packages (Maya, 3D Studio, XSI)
- Experience writing or implementing game objectives using a scripting language (Java, Python, LUA)
- Solid Writing Skills

SENIOR GAME DESIGNER (TMTX3061) – Austin, TX

Responsibilities
- Reports to the Lead Designer and is responsible for developing, creating and implementing various design elements into the game.
- Partners with leads and project managers to drive the development of the design tools and pipeline.
- Must have extensive experience with one or more game editors.
- Practical 3D level building experience is a plus.
- 3D Studio Max experience is a plus.
- Experience balancing game systems is a plus.
- Evaluates design documentation and identify risk areas and potential issues.
- Evaluates playable builds and document issues with game play quality, difficulty, rewards, and balance.
- Identifies risks with building critical game content and consequences to timely delivery of builds.
- Reviews game levels, systems and events. Provide clear, organized written feedback.
- Provides hands-on level creation to “teach by doing” and gain expertise in the design toolset.
- Develops and creates fun game play that utilizes the characters and environments of the licensed product in a manner that is acceptable to the licensed product and overall game design.
- Keeps abreast of new graphic techniques, trends and styles in the industry.
- Maintains current knowledge of the house style document.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering required
- 5-8 years experience in game design and game systems
- Demonstrated experience shipping product at AAA level of quality in a design capacity role
- Familiarity with the science fiction and fantasy genre and role-playing games is a must
- Practical 3D level building experience preferred
- Familiarity with C++
- Proven ability to create game concepts Excellent documentation, verbal and written communication skills
Sample Submission
Send in an example design document – 10 pages or less in length. This design document should show your written communication skills and creative problem solving ability. It should showcase an implementation of a new system into and MMORPG game. Some examples of possible design documents:
- Camera and control design
- Mini-game design