Senior Mission Designer
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Senior Mission Designer
The Gearbox Entertainment Company is an awardwinning creator and distributor of entertainment for people around the world. Gearbox Entertainment develops and publishes products through its subsidiaries Gearbox Software and Gearbox Publishing. Gearbox Entertainment has become widely known for successful game franchises including Brothers in Arms Wonderlands and Borderlands as well as acquired properties Duke Nukem and Homeworld. Gearboxs ambition is to entertain the world and its key driving objectives include the pursuit of happiness for our talent partners and customers the prioritization of entertainment and creativity and a measured respect for profitability. For more information visit .
A Senior Mission Designer at Gearbox leads a team of mission designers to craft momenttomoment stories for the player. They will work with a colead to ensure that the workload is distributed evenly between them based on individual strengths. The Mission Design team works as part of our World Creation team which combines the Level Design Level Art Mission Design and Lighting teams into one unit that ensures we are building cohesive and fun worlds for our players to explore. Mission Design also works closely with our Writing to make sure stories are memorable entertaining and polished. This role reports to the World Building Director and takes additional influence from the Creative Director.
A Senior Mission Designer is responsible for daytoday management and direction of the Mission designers on their project as well as coordinating with production to make sure missions are on track and vetted by all the other teams that will need to contribute their work to each mission. Candidates should have a proven skill set including group management interactive storytelling visual scripting and interdisciplinary negotiation.
Candidates should be intimately aware of the types of Borderlandsstyle missions Gearbox has shipped in recent titles and bring new ideas to the table about how to push interactive storytelling in an online coop game. They should be comfortable in Unreal Engine and understand core concepts involved in FPS game coop and online systems. Candidates should be passionate gamers who can speak articulately about modern games in our competitive space and where the industry is going. Successful candidates will show a passion and track record for storytelling technical implementation team building communication and leadership.
Duties will grow to involve technical and creative review of missions onboarding new hires and mentorship of existing team members. This role will be expected to participate in marketing and promotion of the final product including private and public demonstrations travel and public facing marketing.
Through it all a Senior Mission Designer is expected to maintain a positive team environment foster trust and encourage positive healthy behavior for their team. All leads at Gearbox are expected to contribute to building a company culture around creativity profit and happiness that attracts the best industry talent while also providing opportunities for new hires just starting in the industry.
This role is based out of our Frisco TX office but we can consider certain applicants for remote work within the United States. Applicants who wish to work remotely should discuss their preferred location with Gearbox Recruiting.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of mission designers overseeing the creative and technical implementation of missions across a AAA FPS game
- Work closely with the Narrative Team and Creative Director to build out core narrative tent poles make sure players experience memorable stories with meaningful player engagement
- Work with tools developers to build and iterate tools and processes that allow the team to rapidly create amazing missions quickly
- Coordinate with other Worldbuilding Team leads and producers to produce content on schedule and to a high standard of quality
- Coordinate with the Lead Mission Designer and Lead Writer to make sure missions are meeting narrative and technical goals
- Assist the Managing Director of Design with recruiting hiring and onboarding new Mission Designers
- Provide feedback mentorship and coaching to the Mission Design team
Qualifications:
- Multiple shipped AAA titles preferably with some Unreal Engine experience
- Prior leadership directorship or team management experience on a AAA project
- Prior mission or narrative design experience in a shipped AAA project
- Familiarity and understanding of the Borderlands franchise and core mission mechanics
- Deep understanding of modern AAA games and their narrative mechanics
Gearbox Entertainment believes that all team members should be able to enjoy a work environment free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. We are committed to reflecting the diversity of the world we strive to entertain. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we provide fair and equal treatment to all team members and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin disability genetic information pregnancy or maternity veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national federal state or local law.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
