Mission Designer

Summary 

We are seeking a Mission Designer to create highly memorable missions that combine best-in-class storytelling with action gameplay for an all-new open world IP built in Unreal Engine 5. As a Mission Designer, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team and be a hands-on contributor and implementer of story missions including critical path and side missions alongside single-player campaign features. 

 

Core Responsibilities 

• Own implementation of engaging, diverse, innovative missions within a story-driven, open-world game. 

• Work with the Lead Mission Designer to develop best practices and robust solutions for faster iteration across the team. 

• Challenge the status quo and demonstrate understanding of where open-world mission design can change and where it’s already working. 

• Build brand new, innovative game systems for missions that can help define core features across the rest of the game. 

• Leverage the game's existing open-world systems and mechanics to create dynamic and unpredictable mission experiences that adapt to player choices and actions. 

• Provide feedback to other mission designers to improve the quality of the design and storytelling. 

• Create documentation to support missions, mission tools, and game features developed for missions. 

• Ability to implement and design changes based on play testing data from both internal and external sources. 

 

Core Qualifications 

• 1-2+ years of experience building mission content, ideally within an open-world game. 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

• Innovative thinker with creative problem-solving skills who can thrive in a collaborative team environment. 

• High-quality portfolio showcasing previous scripting, encounter or mission design work in games. 

• Strong understanding of storytelling and narrative design. 

 

Plus If... 

• Experience building game-wide systems or features. 

• Experience with level design, blockout or world-building. 

• Experience in UE4 or UE5. 

• Experience working with co-development partners. 

• Experience working on an open world title. 

 

Description  

• Full time job with benefits  

• Role is on-site in Santa Monica, CA 

• Office is located near downtown Santa Monica – near metro and freeways. 

The base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $115,000 per year. Actual compensation is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a competitive package of benefits including paid time off, sick time, company holidays, parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. 

 

About Absurd Ventures    

Absurd Ventures is a media company creating new IP across all platforms and for all formats. Absurd Ventures is building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a variety of genres, without regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation; video games and other interactive content; books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts.