Studio: Raven Software
Job Opening: Senior Mission Designer
Location: Middleton, Wisconsin, United States Of America
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Creative Directors, Designers, Engineers, Artists, Producers, and Animators to deliver world-class game experiences.
- Research subject matter relating to the design objective to ensure an authentic experience.
- Be a proactive self-starter that can independently execute high-level direction.
- Work in a C-style scripting language to create engaging, fun, unique, and highly polished moments.
- Clearly and effectively pitch designs and features using multi-media tools.
- Play builds of the game in-progress and provide concise, prioritized feedback.
- Work closely with user-testing teams during play-balancing to provide expert balancing feedback.
- Possess a comprehensive understanding of the design process spanning all facets of the game.
- Mentor other designers regularly and act as a resource to other designers.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 5+ years of experience working in the game industry or related field in a design capacity, with at least 3 shipped titles in the AAA console / PC space.
- Solid experience with programming/scripting languages.
- Passionate and egoless attitude that welcomes feedback and criticism, and enjoys working in a collaborative, iterative, and agile process.
- Ability to lead by example.
- Impressive communication skills.
- Strong understanding of geometry building, flow, and layout.
- Solid understanding of modern single-player design with the ability to clearly discuss trends.
- Passion for games with a desire to make an impact at an industry level.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Expertise writing high and low-level documentation (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Visio, etc.).
Extra Points:
- Profound understanding of the Call of Duty franchise.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the FPS games space.
- Prior experience working on a AAA first-person shooter.
- Experience with visual software like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
