Mission Designer

The role

The Mission Designer will create missions combining storytelling with action gameplay for an open world IP in Unreal Engine 5. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to implement critical path and side missions.

What you will do

• Implement engaging, diverse, innovative missions within a story-driven, open-world game.
• Work with the Lead Mission Designer to develop best practices and solutions for faster iteration.
• Build brand new, innovative game systems for missions.
• Leverage existing open-world systems and mechanics to create dynamic mission experiences.
• Provide feedback to other mission designers to improve design and storytelling quality.
• Create documentation to support missions, mission tools, and game features.
• Implement and design changes based on play testing data from internal and external sources.

Required qualifications

• 1-2+ years of experience building mission content, ideally within an open-world game.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Innovative thinker with creative problem-solving skills.
• High-quality portfolio showcasing previous scripting, encounter or mission design work in games.
• Strong understanding of storytelling and narrative design.

Nice to have

• Experience building game-wide systems or features.
• Experience with level design, blockout or world-building.
• Experience in UE4 or UE5.
• Experience working with co-development partners.
• Experience working on an open world title.

Benefits

• Vacation time
• Sick time
• Company holidays
• Parental leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) matching

About the company

absurdventures is developing an all-new open world IP built in Unreal Engine 5.