Game Content Designer

(Senior) Content Designer (AAA, Open World)

Responsibilities

Lightspeed LA is looking for a highly creative Content Designer who has a passion for building AAA open world content.  This role is responsible for creating gameplay content, scenarios, characters, and systems that enrich the open world gameplay experience. As a Content Designer, you will collaborate with Art, Design, Narrative, and Tech to bring open world experiences to life.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in game design, including one shipped title
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
• Craft compelling activities that bolster the variety of open world gameplay experiences
• Design and implement fully realized ambient character behaviors and interactions that bring depth, texture, and believability to a living, breathing world
• Craft ambient content that creates memorable storytelling moments in a wide emotional range, from tragic to heartfelt, from frightening to cathartic, from thrilling to somber.
• Help drive the vision for world spaces, ecologies, and theming of game systems
• Evaluate and implement story concepts, step by step gameplay, ecosystems, characters, cinematics, and dialog
• Partner closely with other disciplines to ensure that content complements narrative, art, technical and design decisions
• Demonstrate versatile game design skills including documentation, planning, tuning, pacing, rewards, and scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert in establishing high-level ecologies, ecosystems, factions, and AI behavior
• Experience with modern game engines and visual scripting (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• A strong technical implementation background
• Shipped at least one AAA game from inception to finish

To prioritize health and safety during the pandemic, we are working remotely until further notice, and will be conducting interviews virtually. The position is still expected to be 100% onsite in Irvine, California as soon as it is appropriate.