Senior Level Designer

Cloud Chamber • Montreal, QC

28d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Level Designer at Cloud Chamber, you will be responsible for blocking out the world and crafting the player experience within the stunning narrative experience and systems-driven world of BioShock. At your core you are collaborative, compassionate, and authentic; a dedicated designer with a passion for creating memorable, immersive player experiences. You will be an integral part of a design team that is breathing life into a new and fantastical world.

Requirements

• Shipped at least one AAA title as a designer.
• 5+ years professional experience in video game design.
• Self-motivated with an eye for solution-based problem solving.
• Able to collaborate well across time zones in a global, multi-site organization.
• Able to work well independently, in small pods, and in larger collaborative teams.
• Able to succinctly and effectively document your work.
• Excellent communications skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and handle opposing priorities.
• As a collaboratively minded designer you are eager to work with a global design team to pitch and develop playable game content.
• You’re a gamer; always playing the next, new thing, often revisiting the oldies as well, learning from what you’ve played, good and bad, and sharing your findings with the team.
• A solid communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly, package information for diverse audiences, and deliver difficult feedback with empathy and professionalism.
• Experienced in working in cross-disciplinary teams with strong communication skills.
• Persistent and self-motivated with a proactive mindset.
• Able to maintain effectiveness and quality under pressure, ambiguity, and fast-changing priorities.
• An active listener able to build and maintain trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization, understand differing perspectives, and navigate organizational complexity with tact and emotional intelligence.
• Highly open to feedback and direction, possessing a desire to learn new skills, and capable of producing quick, quality revisions based on new insights or constraints.
• A strong ownership of tasks, striving to drive work forward autonomously while maintaining a critical eye for detail and organization, ensuring high standards of quality.
• Dedicated to upholding Cloud Chamber's core values, contributing to a positive and respectful company culture while striving for excellence in all endeavors.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience with Unreal is a plus.
• You are a dreamer and a creator who isn't shy about sharing your ideas.
• At Cloud Chamber we encourage design theory discourse and the free exchange of ideas.
• You’re able to give constructive feedback, and receive it as well.
• A reliable, positive force multiplier, actively seeking opportunities to integrate work across disciplines and contribute to a healthy, supportive team environment.

Responsibilities

• Use Blueprint scripting to create gameplay content.
• Design and block out world geometry.
• Collaborate closely with world architects on layout, and other teams as needed, to implement the creative vision of the project.
• Take the initiative on solving difficult or novel cross-disciplinary sequences or sections of content, and see them through from initial conception to completion.
• Work with multi-disciplinary strike teams to improve the game in various focus areas (combat, AI, progression, exploration, narrative, etc).
• Apply your years of experience and knowledge to mentor junior designers and encourage them to grow their skills.
• Design and implement other scripted and systemic content throughout the game world.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed