Principal Content Designer

Scopely; United States; Remote; USD 169,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Content Designer, where you'll lead the content vision for an exciting AAA multiplayer action game. This role offers the chance to shape immersive experiences, drive content strategies, and mentor a talented team. With a focus on collaboration, you'll influence design decisions that enhance player engagement and satisfaction. This innovative firm is dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, ensuring that every team member's voice is heard. If you're passionate about gaming and eager to make an impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Healthcare Benefits

Retirement Benefits

Pet Insurance

Paid Holidays

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Scopely Free Days

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in crafting immersive open-world content.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with a collaborative approach.

Responsibilities

• Drive the high-level content strategy for the game.
• Mentor content designers and ensure engaging player experiences.

Skills

Content Strategy

Open-World Content Design

Multiplayer Environment Design

Technical Design Skills

Leadership Skills

Mentorship Skills

Live-Game Economies

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Job description

Scopely is looking for a Principal Content Designer to join us remotely from the US or Canada!

At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day – whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the gaming industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily.

Scopely is building an exciting AAA multiplayer action game for consoles, PC, and mobile, using Unreal 5. We believe this stylized fantasy project has the potential to be massive in scale and industry-defining!

What You Will Do

As a Principal Content Designer, you will be at the forefront of crafting the content vision for this expansive project, and guiding the team in building immersive & engaging experiences for millions of players. You will be expected to:

• Help drive the high-level content strategy for the game, influencing major design decisions that impact the overall player experience.
• Partner with creative and technical leadership to align content initiatives with broader game and business goals.
• Lead content efforts across teams, ensuring features, quests, and dynamic content are seamlessly integrated into the explorable world.
• Be responsible for the pacing and flow of moment-to-moment gameplay, establishing sophisticated quest structures, puzzles, and combat spaces that captivate players.
• Provide mentorship to content designers, encouraging an environment of growth and innovation.
• Use player and team feedback to drive ongoing improvement, ensuring that content is fun, functional, and aligned with the project’s vision.
• Regularly evaluate the game's content to ensure that designs are evolving and scaling with the needs of the project.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in crafting immersive open-world content, encompassing quests, story arcs, dynamic events, and memorable experiences.
• Experience in designing large-scale multiplayer environments, ensuring content supports massively multiplayer engagement while maintaining individual player goals.
• Ability to prototype and implement sophisticated content features with strong technical design skills.
• A collaborative, cross-functional leader who thrives in an international, diverse team and can drive iterative processes across fields.
• Strong leadership and mentorship skills, with the ability to provide and receive feedback constructively, while driving team development.
• Deep understanding of live-game economies and the dynamics of content design in live service games.

Bonus Points

• Experience leading content design for multiplayer games, MMORPGs, or Action RPGs.
• Understanding of social gameplay and its impact on crafting community content.
• Proficiency with Unreal Engine 5.

For candidates in CA, CO, MD, NJ, NY and WA, the annual salary range is $169,600 - $253,000, plus equity, bonus and benefits including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time-off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

At Scopely, we create games for everyone - and want to ensure that the people behind our games reflect that! We are committed to creating a diverse, supportive work environment where everyone is treated with respect. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us & embrace the adventure!

Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

This role will have access to sensitive and/or confidential employee or customer personally identifiable information (PII) and/or Company financial information, and therefore will be subject to background checks upon receiving a conditional offer of employment.

Notice to candidates: Scopely, Inc and its affiliates will never request payment or ask for financial information as a condition for applying to a position or receiving an offer of employment. All official Scopely, Inc. recruiters only use email domains that end with @scopely.com.

Our official website is www.scopely.com. Please only apply to positions posted on our official website and ensure the recruiter only communicates via the official email domain.