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SeniorFull-timeRust
Salary Range
$93,925 - $127,075 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are seeking a Content Designer with strong foundational game design expertise to join Skydance Games, a division of Paramount. This role is responsible for translating narrative direction into meaningful, playable gameplay experiences that reinforce player agency and support the overall creative vision.
Key Responsibilities
- →Implement narrative content—including dialogue systems, scripted sequences, quest logic, and environmental storytelling—directly in engine
- →Translate narrative direction and written materials into fully playable content aligned with gameplay systems, pacing goals, and production constraints
- →Apply strong core game design principles to ensure narrative features support mechanics, player motivation, and overall experience design
- →Partner closely with the Design Director and Narrative Director to ensure narrative implementation supports the game’s core design pillars and story vision
- →Collaborate broadly with designers, writers, engineers, level designers, artists, audio, and production to integrate narrative elements across all gameplay spaces
- →Serve as the connective tissue between narrative intent and gameplay execution, ensuring dialogue flow, player choice logic, triggers, and world interactions function cohesively
- →Own content implementation from initial setup through iteration, polish, debugging, and optimization
- →Integrate audio assets, props, scripted events, and gameplay triggers to create immersive narrative moments
- →Identify and resolve implementation challenges, edge cases, and narrative-design friction points that impact player experience
- →Provide feedback and implementation guidance to other designers to maintain consistency, quality, and alignment with project vision
- →Maintain clear documentation to support collaboration, clarity, and long-term maintainability
Requirements
- ✓8+ years of professional game development experience, including shipping at least two titles from concept through launch
- ✓Strong understanding of core game design principles, including player motivation, feedback loops, progression systems, and gameplay pacing
- ✓Demonstrated experience implementing interactive storytelling systems, such as branching dialogue, scenario logic, quests, or environmental narrative
- ✓Ability to integrate narrative content within broader gameplay systems rather than treating it as standalone story delivery
- ✓Extensive hands-on experience with one or more game engines and development languages, visual scripting experience necessary
- ✓Experience providing constructive feedback and guidance to designers while maintaining alignment with overall creative direction
- ✓Ability to self-direct, prioritize effectively, and deliver high-quality work without close supervision while adhering to production schedules
- ✓Strong problem-solving skills, particularly in debugging gameplay logic and content implementation issues
- ✓Excellent communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams
- ✓Deep understanding of how narrative systems support engagement within modern game design
- ✓Plusses
- ✓In-depth experience with Unreal Engine, particularly Blueprint scripting
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