Senior Level Designer - Studio nDreams (Hybrid)
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Through best practices and collaboration with others, the Senior Level Designer will deliver exceptional levels for our games that support the Game Director’s vision. From early concept and white box all the way through to the final product, you will be responsible for designing, implementing and iterating environmental locations and mission scenarios in our upcoming AAA-quality VR games.
What Will You Be Doing?
- Communicating and working closely with Designers and Artists to create incredible environmental locations that feel compelling and are 1-1 with the gameplay vision.
- Implementing mission scenarios and interactive elements, iterating on them to the highest quality through peer feedback and user testing.
- Contributing to the creative process by owning the creation of levels from blockout to final, helping to drive the vision of the game forward.
- Participating in critiquing your work and the work of other designers; mentoring and inspiring a high standard for level design, pushing quality to the next level and exceeding expectation.
- Working closely with our Lead Level Designer to plan your work, manage your effort and deliver your work in time.
Requirements
- A passionate Level Designer with 5+ years’ experience who is creative, critical, analytical, and has a strong working knowledge of modular Level Design processes and best practices
- Someone with the technical expertise of using Unreal or other level editors and tools to design, implement and iterate on levels and prototypes, plus the initiative, personal drive and organisation skills to deliver excellent results on time.
- An effective written and verbal communicator, with strong documentation and attention to detail skills and the ability to convey abstract concepts succinctly and effectively.
- A true team player, able to work collaboratively as part of a multidiscipline team and with the aptitude to effectively critique their own and others work, respectfully.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and shipping a AAA title are both advantageous.
Benefits
Why Join nDreams?
nDreams is a world-leading virtual reality game developer and publisher, combining innovation with excellence. We’re the studio behind the #1 selling, “Best of E3” award-winning, Phantom: Covert Ops and we’ve got several exciting projects planned for 2021 and beyond, including Fracked, our recently announced PS VR exclusive.
The talent behind these games is a growing and thriving studio that shares a passion for innovation, collaboration and is at the forefront of defining the future of VR. We encourage an open, creative and diverse culture and empower people to explore their ideas and put their own stamp on projects. With humble beginnings of our own, we combine big projects and opportunities with a personal, caring touch. We’re proud of our culture and we’d love you to come and see why!
We offer some great perks, including flexible core hours, share options, 20 days holiday (increasing yearly to a maximum of 25 days), two duvet days, a day off to celebrate your birthday and various monthly socials! Our newly redesigned open plan office is modern and spacious and has great facilities with a cycle station, showers and more all on site.
Once you’ve seen what we’re up to, how we work, and our commitment to a collaborative culture and excellence, we’re convinced you’ll want to be involved…
The role is based can be office based or hybrid through our unique Flex+ policy. Flex+ empowers you to make decisions about your work location depending on the tasks at the time in collaboration with your team and Manager.The studio is within easy commuting distance from London and Guildford. Salary is competitive and dependent on your experience.
If you think this could be the role for you, we’d love you to get in touch! Drop us your CV via the link below.