Design Director, World Systems - Remote US

SportsTechJobs; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Scopely is hiring a Design Director, World Systems to own the design of procedural world generation for a major title. You will guide end-to-end world concepts, direct world-generation teams, and partner with Creative, UX, Product, and Engineering to ensure cohesive player experiences across generated worlds.

The role requires leadership on large-scale worlds, hands-on design, and a strong sense of pacing, density, and player sightlines.

Qualifications

• 10+ years working on shipped games or live ops projects.
• 5+ years of game design leadership on large-scale worlds (open world, procedural world, action RPG, MMORPG, or comparable spaces).
• 5+ years leading level design, world design, or encounter placement at a high craft bar.

Responsibilities

• Own the player experience of generated worlds and raise it to a standard that feels authored and readable.
• Define how diverse world elements compose into a cohesive whole.
• Establish and enforce world-design standards for density, pacing, traversal distances, sightlines, and encounters.

Skills

World design

Level design

Gameplay pacing

Procedural generation

Design leadership

Unity

Tools

Unity

Job description

Scopely is hiring a Design Director, World Systems to own the design of procedural world generation for a major title. You will guide end-to-end world concepts, direct world-generation teams, and partner with Creative, UX, Product, and Engineering to ensure cohesive player experiences across generated worlds.

The role requires leadership on large-scale worlds, hands-on design, and a strong sense of pacing, density, and player sightlines.