Senior Level Designer

The role

As part of the level design group, you will be joining the early stages of a new and exciting project that is reimagining how open worlds are constructed. The project has unique challenges that require ‘outside the box’ approaches to push the boundaries of traditional level design methodologies and the cutting-edge technology we use.

As a senior, you will work closely with the lead level designer and provide support in forming the world building framework for the project. You will be at the heart of the content creation process and are expected to collaborate with all departments, ensuring that features and systems come together in the gameplay spaces being created. At this early stage, you will have creative agency to help shape the vision of our unique gameplay environments.

Additionally, you are expected to be a role model and mentor for other designers, giving them the benefit of your insight and experiences, to ensure that all level design content is of the highest quality across the board.

The Team

The design team is a multi-disciplinary group focused on the delivery of compelling player experiences through ideation, implementation, and iteration. We value honest and thoughtful communication, and a willingness to experiment together.

The team is passionate about finding creative solutions to design challenges and responsible for filtering the game vision into individual features, levels, combat, quests, and encounters. Collaborating closely with all other disciplines, the design team supports features throughout the full development lifecycle to ensure high-quality experiences are delivered on schedule.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the lead level designer to deliver best in-class world design content.
• Take ownership of large parts of the game world and collaborate closely with other departments, including game design, narrative, engineering, and environment art, to deliver great content in highly explorable environments.
• Drive the creation of level content from paper design through to final stages of polish, whilst ensuring the requirements of the gameplay, creative and technical stakeholders are maintained.
• Regularly seek feedback from the wider team to aid you in honing the player experience.
• Evangelise the quality targets for world design and all the content found in the spaces created.
• Anticipate technical and creative challenges whilst facilitating communication to address concerns as soon as possible.
• Create and maintain documentation for new and existing world content.
• Actively mentor other designers and make yourself available to help support them through design and technical challenges.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a level or world design role.
• Experience of working autonomously and driving content creation within tight time constraints.
• Proven block out skills with examples of work demonstrating a strong understanding of player experience through the layout of gameplay spaces.
• A passionate gamer, preferably with a love for open-world games and MMO’s.
• Experience working in cross-discipline teams to deliver high-quality content.
• Motivated, flexible, and approachable. You will champion quality across the team.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills.
• Experience working with game engines like Unity, Unreal, CryEngine

Sharkmob London is a brand-new AAA studio in the heart of London, with aspirations to build one of the largest and most creatively ambitious development teams in the world. Just like the original Sharkmob studio in Malmö, Sharkmob London was founded by a team of industry veterans. As a part of Tencent Games we have the experience, backing, and ambition to build the games of the future!

At Sharkmob, we are committed to building an inclusive team that represents diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skillsets – because we believe that helps us create great games. We welcome all candidates that are aligned with our core values of shared ownership, smart decisions and last but not least – having fun!

Remuneration and benefits

• • Competitive salaries based on up-to-date data from external benchmarking providers & reviewed annually.
  • 30 days annual leave, in addition to all UK Bank Holidays.
  • Hybrid work-from-home policy.
  • Discretionary annual performance-based bonus.
  • Private pension (10% total, up to 5% individual contribution matched by Sharkmob).
  • BUPA private Healthcare, Cigna dental cover, life insurance scheme and income protection policy.
  • £425 yearly preventative healthcare allowance.
  • Core studio hours 10:00-16:00 with 1 ‘wellness hour’ to be used per week.
  • Daily breakfasts, snacks & refreshments at the studio.
  • VISA sponsorship (individual & dependents).
  • Relocation assistance for people outside the UK (1 month accommodation, flights/travel paid for, logistics/removal costs reimbursed).
  • Assistance for people relocating within the UK (reimbursement for expenses on travel into London for flat viewings and moving vans/couriers)