Senior PVP Designer – AAA Games – Norway – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it’s safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

OPM’s client, a developer of popular single and multiplayer console/PC titles, is currently looking for a Senior PVP Designer to join their growing team in Norway. The first project you’ll work on will be an open-world multiplayer game.

The Senior PvP Designer will work with the lead designer to define the PvP experience and the underlying systems and game mechanics that support this experience. Your role is to create a successful game with an engaging, balanced PvP experience.

Responsibilities:

• Translate a feature design into a fleshed-out system design with clear iterations
• Oversee implementation of new PvP systems that are balanced and fun and which will help reduce the player churn
• Collaborate with other designers who are working on PvE content and advise them on how to ensure their content also works well in a PvP context 
• Collaborate with the programmers, environment artists and other designers to build engaging, challenging and balanced play spaces
• Translate team’s playtest feedback into physical improvements
• Ability to easily work well within a large design team and has the ability to bring people together
• Additional duties include assisting with content creation for game development and assisting with quality control of all products

Requirements:

• Extensive experience with content design

• Extensive experience playing open world survival games and taking part in PvP
• Previous experience shipping at least 1 multi-platform title as designer
• Strong sense of level design, scale, pacing, and gameplay flow
• General understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process
• Experience with Gameplay Scripting
• Experience with Unreal Engine and/or 3D art creation applications is a huge plus
• Experience with post-launch support and content updates is beneficial

Tagged as: Game Design