World Design Director

hace 3 semanas


Barcelona, España Smilegate Barcelona A tiempo completo

Job reference
- 4018442101_crt:1682942852795
- Company Name
- Smilegate Barcelona
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Barcelona, Spain
- Country
- Spain
- Industry sector
- Design
- Job start date
- ASAP
- Posted date
- 01/05/2023
- Experience Level
- Director
- Job type
- Permanent | Full Time
- Remote / Hybrid
- No

Our goal is a combination of best-in-class combat and exploration spaces to create a living world of possibility that will deeply immerse players.

**We are looking for someone with**:

- A drive and passion for creating meaningful and inspiring areas that players will want to explore
- Excellent knowledge of the competition and the methods they use to create open-world play spaces
- Good respect for combat spaces and the metrics used in their construction enable dynamic and compelling battle spaces
- The ability to operate both at a high world level but also at the low encounter-based level
- High-level awareness of environmental storytelling and knowing how to enrich the locations with this

**What the role involves**:
Working hand in hand with the art and design departments this is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and build your own team on a project where the world is a central part.
- Working with the Creative Director to define, own and champion the project living world pillars and vision.
- Drive the development and creation of high-quality AAA environments
- Be the representative for world design to all other parties.
- Work alongside the combat, AI, and narrative leads to design and implement gameplay enabling playspaces.
- Work alongside Artistic Direction to design a believable and coherent world.
- Balance artistic aspects with technical constraints to align all technical, design, graphic, and narrative features.
- Build up a world-class world and level design team by helping to interview and hire level designers.
- Be the mentor, guide, and leader of your team of handpicked designer
- Provide meaningful feedback to the world design team during a play session
- Create and maintain a prospering level design culture within the world design team.
- Help drive the development of standard-setting world design tools and workflow.
- Ensuring a productive internal workflow and beneficial relationships with external partners.
- Working with other teams to develop immersion enhancing features such as weather and night/day systems

**Role requirements**:

- Excellent track record - credited on at least 2 shipped games either as Lead level/world director, lead/ senior-level/world designer
- Working knowledge of at least one of the major 3D modeling packages and being able to get hands-on to create environments
- Good understanding of what works and doesn't in leading open-world games - especially how combat spaces and terrain narrative intersect
- Strong communication skills - with the ability to communicate and collaborate across multiple teams
- Ability to lead by example and delegate as required

**Good to have**:

- Experience with procedural methods of content creation

**YOUR LIFE AT SMILEGATE BARCELONA (and PERKS)**
- Breakfast in the Office.
- Restaurant Tickets: approx 180 € per month (2.160€/year).
- 23 vacation days per year + Christmas to the new year (the office is closed from 24th December to 2nd January).
- Fully stocked studio kitchen (Nescafe coffee, organic fruits, snacks, and beverages).
- 16 weeks Maternity and Paternity leave
- Hybrid work model (3 days in the office, 2 days work from home) and Flexible Friday.
- Private Health insurance, including dental coverage.
- Incredible office in Barcelona in Torre Glories, 15min from the beach and 1 min from Glories Mall.
- Team Building Events.
- Relocation Package with VISA support.



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