Principal World Designer – AAA Open World RPG – Midlands, UK – Permanent

OPM’s client, a leading UK based Game Development Studio, are currently looking for a Principal World Designer as the next addition to their team. The studio is almost 20 years old and they bring together some of the most experienced and talented developers from the UK industry.

As a Principal World Designer, you will take responsibility for macro-level open world planning and design. You’ll work with team leadership to help define game vision and world design direction, while collaborating with others to balance intuitive gameplay flow and exceptional visual composition.

You’ll drive world design quality, contribute to the development of processes and pipelines, and be a highly reliable, autonomous member of the team.

Requirements:

• Experience planning and iterating large scale open world map designs on at least two shipped AAA titles at a senior level or above
• An exceptional aptitude to see the bigger picture and perform high-level open world composition
• Excellent knowledge of key world design concepts and an extraordinary ability to apply them within open world design
• A combination of outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills
• A highly effective capability to work autonomously with confidence to both solve and identify problems throughout all stages of development
• The ability to clearly communicate vision and concept to all stakeholders
• Balance quality with efficiency while working under tight deadlines
• Experience working on action/RPG titles is a huge plus

Tagged as: Level Design, Mission Design