Job Description
DESIGN
What We Do
Put your design skills to work at a cutting-edge company that challenges the norm. From character and level design to competitive gameplay and system design, help shape the future of interactive entertainment at Epic.
What You'll Do
Epic is looking for a Lead Level Designer to join our Design team working on Fortnite. In this role, you'll utilize your experience, creative leadership, and team management skills to lead a highly collaborative team to design and build content for upcoming releases. Level Designers at Epic are a part of a cross-discipline content team working to develop great looking spaces which expand the Fortnite universe.
In this role, you will
- Lead a team of Level Designers to create fun and visually appealing buildings, landmarks, and POIs for Fortnite Battle Royale
- Use your creative leadership to focus design efforts around building competitive and compelling gameplay spaces that achieve seasonal goals
- Collaborate with Directors to plan content that tells stories, pushing the narrative and storytelling in the world
- Work with Art, Production, and Directors to establish vision and plan content for seasonal updates and work with the Gameplay team to implement map impacting features to the world
- Represent the Level Design team in meetings and planning, championing rules, metrics, budgets and guidelines for creating content for Fortnite
- Attend playtests, provide feedback, and identify practical solutions to problems
- Mentor more junior members of the Level Design team, providing feedback, reviews, and growth planning
What we're looking for
- Prior experience leading a Multiplayer Level Design team
- Experience leading teams building content for a GaaS model
- Demonstrated ability to improvise and creatively solve problems
- Experience working closely and communicating with artists, and Art leadership
- History of designing and building multiplayer levels, ideally Battle Royale style play spaces
- Experience using a level editor (UE4/UE5, or similar)
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents