Principal Technical Level Designer at PeopleCanFly

• Implementing gameplay scenarios using the existing toolset to forge gameplay elements such as checkpoints, objectives, enemy spawns, and special events into compelling gaming experiences. • Maintaining the big picture of all connected features used by the department, identifying weak spots and missing links, proposing and driving improvements to the toolset, workflows, and pipelines. • Proactively tackle the most complex technical issues • Working directly with programmers, game designers, artists, and animators to create essential tools and solutions, handle dependencies between features, facilitate teams cooperation and contribute to the vision of the game. • Assessment of designs, game features, and pipelines, identifying potential risks, looking for systemic improvement. • Assisting with prototyping and production of the technical elements for game features. • Testing new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team to ensure they meet the department’s requirements. • Ensuring Level Designers comply with the official metrics and technical standards. • Reviewing blueprints done by team members, analyzing them to identify any additional efforts required for optimization or reducing the risk of bugs. • Implementing prefabs that are easy to use, configure or adjust by team members. • Making sure the Level Design team can efficiently maintain a balance between the creative vision for the project and the technical budget restraints provided by the Technical Director by acting as a technical reference for the team in relation to level design. • Assisting the rest of the department with debugging and bug fixing, collaborating with other teams on interdisciplinary investigations when needed and act as ambassador within the project and studio wide. • Maintaining owned project documentation. • Stay informed of best practices and technical solutions used in the industry. • Contributing to the company’s knowledge base and cooperating with other teams to keep it up-to-standards. • Manage or supervise work of established Strike Teams. • Occasionally support Lead in recruitment projects with HR collaboration. • Occasionally can onboard new hires.