Senior Mission Designer - Open-World StarCraft (Hybrid)

Blizzard Entertainment; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, HSA/HRA, 401k

Paid holidays and vacation

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA, is seeking a Senior Mission Designer to craft the next chapter of STARCRAFT. You will lead mission design from concept to ship, shaping dialogue, layout, and combat encounters, while collaborating across disciplines in a fast, iterative team environment.

This hybrid role blends work-from-home and on-site days at our Irvine studio, joining a team that values cross-functional collaboration and creative problem solving in a beloved franchise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience creating missions/quests, layout, and the frameworks that missions are built from.
• Experience with technical design, scripting, and level design.
• Proven experience shipping AAA titles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in feature development.
• A professional understanding and competency for the Unreal engine.
• Proven spatial and layout design skills on a shipped title.

Responsibilities

• Design and build captivating layouts and locations that align with the game’s narrative and gameplay goals.
• Integrate gameplay mechanics, challenges, combat, and puzzles into mission designs to enhance player engagement and exploration.
• Collaborate with other designers, artists, code, audio, VFX, and animation departments to a compelling holistic player experience.
• Deliver high-quality results and build progress towards short- to medium- to long-term deliverables/releases, from iterative prototyping to execution.
• Prototype and create engaging missions or mission components in-engine to a AAA standard that integrate player fantasy, narrative, and gameplay.

Skills

Technical design

Scripting

Level design

Unreal Engine

AAA titles

Cross-functional teams

Spatial/layout design

Team collaboration

Tools

Unreal Blueprint

C++

Lua

JavaScript

Job description

Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, CA, is seeking a Senior Mission Designer to craft the next chapter of STARCRAFT. You will lead mission design from concept to ship, shaping dialogue, layout, and combat encounters, while collaborating across disciplines in a fast, iterative team environment.

This hybrid role blends work-from-home and on-site days at our Irvine studio, joining a team that values cross-functional collaboration and creative problem solving in a beloved franchise.