Lead Mission Designer

Turtle Rock is seeking a Lead Mission Designer to spearhead the development of our narrative-driven content. This role will own the vision, structure and implementation of campaign and side mission content. The ideal candidate will bring a wealth of experience with pacing and storytelling through gameplay.

Responsibilities

• Maintain mission script quality while balancing technical and performance constraints


• Partner closely with the Lead Sandbox Designer and cross-discipline teams (Production, Art, Engineering) to craft engaging scenarios, events and missions


• Manage a team of Mission Designers and review their work to craft engaging, replayable scenarios and events


• Drive the development of tools, workflows, and best practices for mission scripting and gameplay systems 


• Conceptualize, build, and refine narrative-driven mission content in UE5, setting the bar for quality and best practices 


• Serve as the central point of contact for Mission Design, coordinating with  Production, Art, Engineering, and QA


• Author clear design documentation for missions, features, and tool requests.


• Work with production for planning out future milestones


• Mentor and manage team members through 1:1s, career development, performance reviews, goal setting, and hiring


• Provide constructive feedback and foster open design discussions


• Playtest regularly to evaluate and refine mission content