Design Director, World Systems - Procedural Worlds

Scopely; Culver City (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely in Culver City or remote across the US is seeking a Design Director, World Systems to own procedural world generation and lead the team from day one.

You will define how terrain, creatures, props and encounters form a cohesive world, collaborating with Tools, Art, UX, and Engineering to scale the content pipeline for a live title.

This role requires 5+ years leading world design, strong leadership, and a passion for density, pacing, and player exploration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of game design leadership on large‑scale worlds (open world, procedural world, action RPG, MMORPG, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience leading level/world design or encounter placement
• Demonstrated experience shipping worlds combining authored intent with generated content
• Minimum 10 years working on shipped new or live game products
• Experience collaborating with tools/engineering to define world-building frameworks

Responsibilities

• Own the player experience of generated worlds and raise it to an authored, readable standard
• Define how diverse world elements compose into a cohesive whole
• Establish and enforce world-design standards for density, pacing, traversal, sightlines, and landmarking
• Partner with Tools to specify generation frameworks and tuning levers
• Lead end‑to‑end world generation concepts through live iteration
• Bring strong level-design sensibility to procedural space and pacing
• Follow design-thinking to meet player and business goals
• Understand audience and tailor world solutions for diverse players
• Collaborate with Creative, UX, Product, Technical and Content leadership
• Envision scalable world designs for a large live‑operated game
• Prototype world behaviors with Art/UX/Tools/Engineering
• Manage multiple world systems and mentor designers
• Maintain top-quality design documentation standards
• Inspire and grow a team of designers

Skills

World design leadership

Procedural generation

Level design

Cross‑functional leadership

Gameplay pacing

Tools

Unity

Job description

Scopely in Culver City or remote across the US is seeking a Design Director, World Systems to own procedural world generation and lead the team from day one.

You will define how terrain, creatures, props and encounters form a cohesive world, collaborating with Tools, Art, UX, and Engineering to scale the content pipeline for a live title.

This role requires 5+ years leading world design, strong leadership, and a passion for density, pacing, and player exploration.