Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Job Opening: Senior Encounter Designer – Diablo IV
Location: Irvine, California, USA
Type: Full-Time
Qualifications & Skills:
- At least 5 years of experience in the video game industry
- Experience working with a cross-discipline team
- Extensive experience playing action-oriented RPGs
- Experience working on a Live product
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A demonstrable understanding of the role creature mechanics play in a combat model
- Ability to sort through mountains of feedback and analytic data to identify areas to improve a live game
- A drive to work on combatants and monsters of all kinds
- Work creatively in a fast-paced technical environment
- Adhere to priorities and pillars set by leads
- Ability to work well with cross-discipline experts
Extra Points
- Experience as a System, Class, or Combat designer
- Experience designing boss encounters in any game
- Experience as an action-oriented encounter designer
- Design experience on a multiplayer action game
- Have taken work through the entire development process to ship
- Non-design development experience (artist, programmer, etc.)
- Familiar with high-level scripting languages such as Lua or Python
- Deep knowledge of at least one well-known Game Engine
- Experience playing games in the Diablo franchise
