Concepteur.trice de niveaux / Level designer - Senior

The role

You will design and deliver gameplay spaces and activities for an open world third-person fantasy action game. You will work in Unreal Engine 5 to create large-scale combat experiences by collaborating with design, art, and development teams.

What you will do

• Lead the design and development of levels, features and activity types
• Design spaces suited to large-scale combat
• Create readable, varied combat experiences
• Prototype different approaches and evolve them through playtests
• Adapt to production changes with an experimental approach
• Collaborate with artists, technical designers and programmers
• Communicate design needs, risks and decisions to teams and directors
• Use scripting tools like Blueprints to orchestrate events
• Contribute to the evolution of design guidelines and methods
• Mentor and support fellow level designers

Required qualifications

• Solid professional experience in level design with one or more shipped titles or equivalent production experience
• Excellent command of level design fundamentals including layout, flow, pacing, readability and player guidance
• Experience designing combat spaces
• Ability to structure the pacing of a fight
• Ability to prototype and iterate quickly
• Flexible, experimental mindset
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative approach
• Hands-on experience with Unreal Engine 5
• Fluent in French
• Comfortable working in English
• Portfolio demonstrating strong level design skills and clear design intent

Nice to have

• Blueprints proficiency is a significant asset
• Experience designing for large-scale battles or complex encounters
• Playable content in portfolio is strongly recommended

Benefits

• Defined core working hours allowing for flexibility
• Generous RRSP employer contributions
• Health, dental, and wellness coverage including telemedicine
• Personal and wellness days
• OPUS and BIXI subsidy
• Yearly video game reimbursement

Before you apply

• Only Quebec residents who are legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered

About the company

Krafton Montreal is a leading game development studio composed of veterans of the game industry. They are working on a game based on an acclaimed intellectual property set in a medieval fantasy world.