Design Director, World Systems
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ScopelyMobile Gaming
Remotely within the USFull-TimeDirector
Salary$164,000 — $247,000 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years of game design leadership; Minimum 10 years working on shipped new or live game products
- Required Skills
- Game Design
Requirements
- 5+ years of game design leadership on large-scale worlds (open world, procedural, action RPG, MMORPG, or similar).
- 5+ years of experience leading level design, world design, or encounter placement at a high craft bar.
- Demonstrated experience shipping worlds that combine authored intent with generated content.
- Minimum 10 years working on shipped new or live game products.
- Strong instincts for gameplay pacing, world density, traversal, and sightlines.
- Experience partnering with tools or engineering teams to define world-building frameworks and pipelines.
- Ability to define and ensure standards of excellence in design documentation.
- Experience iterating on ideas in early development and working on production or live-operated games.
Responsibilities
- Own the player experience of generated worlds, ensuring they feel authored, readable, and explorable.
- Define how world elements compose into a cohesive whole rather than a collection of separate systems.
- Establish and enforce world-design standards for density, pacing, traversal, and landmark placement.
- Partner with the Tools team to define generation frameworks and authoring workflows.
- Work end-to-end from early concepts and prototyping through live iteration.
- Inspire, empower, and grow a team of game designers.
- Manage the design of multiple world systems simultaneously while overseeing development.
- Ensure high-quality design documentation and specifications.
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