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TiMi Studio Group is an award-winning game development and operations team that strives to improve global players’ entertainment quality. TiMi is part of Tencent Games and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China with offices in Los Angeles, Montreal, Seattle, Shanghai and Chengdu. It strives to create high quality, high fidelity, highly creative games across a wide variety of genres and multiple platforms.

About the Hiring Team

TiMi Montreal is a new AAA development team making an innovative open world role-playing game in Unreal Engine 5 that is part of the award-winning TiMi Studio Group and Tencent. The studio’s core team has a proven track record making hit open world games, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Watch Dogs. This is an ambitious team who aspires to be a flagship first-party studio for TiMi, reaching global audiences of passionate gamers who appreciate the studio’s optimistic and inclusive culture that rewards disruptive, risk-taking game development.

What the Role Entails

Award-winning TiMi Studio Group seeks a Senior Level Designer who is ready to help design a new AAA multi-platform game for gaming communities around the world.
We are a new team within TiMi who is ambitiously looking to make massive, open world games for gamers to play for years to come. We are passionate about creating new, compelling worlds to play in and explore. Are you someone who is engaged with building new worlds, understands what captivates players, and cares deeply about gaming as a medium? Are you ready to channel your passion and energy into creating expansive open world games for global audiences? Then, come join us in our ambitious endeavor.

Responsibilities

• Share a passion to innovate, especially in the design and development of open world games

• Design, prototype, and iterate on intrinsic core gameplay to ensure that is fun, visceral, and addictive

• Keep up to date with the bleeding edge of level design trends within video game development and evangelize solutions that will innovate both the player experience and the creative development of the product

• Participate in the hiring of the entire level design discipline

• Coordinate and oversee mission level designers as they bring concept to playability

• Balance artistic aspects with technical constraints to align all technical, design, graphic, and narrative features

• Work side-by-side with all directors and leads to take a multi-discipline approach to creativity and problem solving

• Proactively identify opportunities and risks to improve the work of the team, the quality of the project, and studio knowledge as a whole

• Have a cross platform mindset up front and ensure that design can work seamlessly on different platforms and form factors

• Ensure that the design of the game starts with a Live product philosophy, capable of regular updates and malleable to key design changes if necessary

Who We Look For

Requirements

• At least eight years of professional AAA game development experience

• At least two projects shipped in a leadership position

• At least two AAA action titles shipped, one during the current generation of video games (PS4/XBOX ONE)

• A portfolio of fun, inspiring, industry-leading design that you can talk to at depth and explain how your personal creative process was key in its development

• Able to communicate complex designs to the entire team

• A solid understanding of level design and all phases of video game production

• A team player who knows how to get the best out of everyone on the project and not just within design

• Experience prototyping in and shipping a game using Unreal Engine 4 a plus

Why Join Us?

Develop games that improve the entertainment quality for global audiences and make an impression on the entire industry. Join a studio featuring an ambitious, talented, and seasoned team working in an optimistic and inclusive environment. Create new worlds for players to explore, experience and enjoy as you join a team who cares about innovation and wants to delight players with new creative game design for open world experiences. Help create the next great game world for players to immerse in for decades to come.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.