Lead Quest Designer

Location: Warsaw, Poland; onsite work schedule of four days per week

Company

Activision develops, publishes, and distributes interactive entertainment, including major gaming franchises and new intellectual properties.

What you will do

• Lead and manage the Quest Design team, setting goals and performance expectations aligned with project objectives.
• Support the foundational lore of a new intellectual property and help express its story through exploration, dialogue, gameplay, and activities.
• Design and implement functional quests while becoming proficient with project tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with Quest, Narrative, and Level Design teams, Engineers, and other departments to create cohesive game locations, characters, content, and plots.
• Act as the primary Quest Design contact for the project, communicating status, risks, needs, and design direction to senior leadership.
• Develop Quest Design pipelines and processes, provide actionable feedback, and coach designers through performance and professional development.

Requirements

• Professional Game Design experience with significant quest design experience and at least one shipped title in a senior or lead capacity.
• Experience managing schedules, setting priorities, and delivering against production timelines and deadlines.
• Experience with technical game design, including implementation in tools, game logic, or visual scripting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including pitching detailed game design concepts.
• Ability to collaborate in a creative team, accept feedback, solve problems thoughtfully, and provide clear feedback that supports team growth.
• Ability to work onsite in the Warsaw office four days per week.

Nice to have

• Experience leading content design teams on AAA open-world titles.
• Recognition in the game design field or experience creating an independent or side project game.
• Experience in content design, narrative design, environment art, programming, or other adjacent fields.
• Experience playing or creating pen-and-paper, board, or trading card games.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, inclusive, respectful, and high-performing development environment.
• Emphasis on empathy, professionalism, self-critique, and mutual respect for colleagues and players.
• Work arrangements may change at the company’s discretion to meet business needs.