Senior Technical Designer - Albany, United States - Blizzard Entertainment

Description

Team Name:

Diablo IV

Job Title:

Senior Technical Designer - Diablo IV

Requisition ID:

R022793

Job Description:

The minions of Hell are growing stronger...

Our horde of diabolically passionate developers is growing. While our backgrounds are varied, we all share a passion for what we do. If you value a tight-knit team that celebrates self-expression and a multi-disciplinary approach, then join us on the Diablo IV team

The Diablo IV team is looking for a Senior Technical Designer with a passion for improving pipelines and workflows, a commitment to learning, a collaborative attitude, and the desire to inquire "how can we make it better?". You will provide technical and creative support to the team by helping to facilitate the efficient creation of clean and performant content. As an advocate for developer workflows, you collaborate with multiple disciplines to come up with the best solution for difficult problems and champion the process throughout.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The potential home studio for this role is Albany, NY, or Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Instruct and mentor designers on implementation, workflow, and tools.
• Cultivate and maintain collaborative relationships across all disciplines.
• Champion workflow improvements
• Analyze existing workflows and tools to make necessary improvements.
• Work with engineering to request and refine workflow and tool changes.
• Serve as a technical point of contact for content reviews, standards, and best practices.
• Diagnose, debug, and fix content issues.
• Create content and help design gameplay systems.

Requirements

• +5 years experience as a Designer, with at least 2 years specializing as a Technical Designer
• Shipped at least 1 AAA title.
• Shipped content in multiple design areas (levels, systems, encounters, UI, etc.)
• Experience in pipeline development and process improvement.
• Experience in scripting or programming game content.
• Deep understanding of design workflows in multiple game editors
• Ability to create design documents for tools and game systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A passion for cross-discipline collaboration

Bonus

• Experience mentoring junior designers.
• Experience creating content for online multiplayer RPG games.
• Previous design experience in ARPG / Open World / Multiplayer games
• Authoring game content using the Lua scripting language.
• Knowledge of Blizzard worlds and gameplay values
• Specific knowledge of the dark fantasy world of the Diablo franchise

We love hearing from anyone enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we've been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We're on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment Hard work, iteration, and polish go into the Blizzard "secret recipe," but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for 'Every World' - we've got our employees covered Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $80, $149,400.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role's range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.