Senior Content Designer - Lightspeed LA

Senior Content Designer (AAA, Open World)

Responsibilities

Lightspeed LA is looking for a highly creative Senior 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:

• 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
• 5+ years of experience in game design, including at least one shipped title AAA game from inception to finish