Amazon Games is looking for an AI Combat Character Designer to join the New World team at Amazon Game Studios, Orange County. New World is a Sandbox MMO set in an alternate version of the 17th Century. As a designer on the AI team you’ll be responsible for inventing and developing unique and exciting characters for New World. You will work with a team of animators and programmers to bring your vision to life. We’re looking for gameplay focused designers that strive to create fun and exciting gameplay challenges.

Amazon Games applies the principles of Amazonian culture to the world of game design. We have a diverse team of talented, creative people pairing their love of making games with the unique strengths that come with being part of Amazon. Across all of our teams and locations, we are united by a common purpose: to share great gaming experiences with customers around the world. We believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate and connect through games, and we are looking for the right people to help us build that future. With the power of Twitch and AWS at your fingertips, you will have the chance to innovate in gameplay, creativity, marketing, and technology, while working alongside some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

In this role you will…

• Come up with cool concepts for new combat characters and boss encounters that fit in the world but bring something new and unique to the game
• Write CDDs (character design documents) that communicate your vision to the rest of the team
• Work with the animation team to define timings, distances, and other animation keys which result in responsive, fun gameplay
• Work with programmer to create custom functionality for your characters
• Script gameplay logic and integrate animations into the game engine
• Work in an iterative manner, where you playtest often, get team feedback and improve your work
• Refine, tune, and polish your work create highly polished, high quality combat experiences

About the team
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

At Amazon, our goal is to create great PC games. We believe in ground-breaking games that can redefine the boundaries of player experience and change the way the world sees digital entertainment. New World is a massively multiplayer, open-ended sandbox game that allows you to carve your own destiny with other players in a living, hostile, cursed land. How you play, what you do, and whom you work with or against is up to you. Live on your own amidst the supernatural terrors or join with others to build thriving civilizations.

New World is seeking a Gameplay Animator to create appealing and engaging creatures and player animations for the New World Team. As the Gameplay Animator, you will collaborate with animators, game designers, artists and engineers to help maintain or develop workflows, and create amazing animation to delight our customers. You’ll use a combination of key frame animation and motion capture techniques to bring characters to life. You will have a broad impact and a lot of discretion.

Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with Animation Team, Art team and Design Team to create in game animations that are incredibly satisfying to play and exiting to watch.
• You’ll use a combination of key frame and motion capture techniques to bring human and creature characters to life.
• Offer and receive criticism and critique equally well to help constantly raise our team’s quality bar.
• Work with our technical artist to define and improve our animation pipeline.

Amazon Games is looking for a 3D Character Artist to join our New World team in Sunny Irvine, CA. In New World, players will fight for survival as they explore and conquer the mysterious island of Aeternum.
In this role you will work closely with the character team and concept team to execute high quality assets, by adhering to the high visual standards and vision set by the Art Director and Art Lead for both character design and organic modeling. You will have strong knowledge of all aspects of character creation, and be a hardworking self-motivated team player that brings future heroes to life. You will be proficient in character creation and character systems for AAA third person action games. You should have a solid sense of vision and passion to create high quality assets that delight our customers.
If the opportunity to help create Amazon’s next big hit is the challenge you have been looking for, we want to hear from you!

What you will do: - Work closely with the Art Director and Associate Art Director to execute the artistic vision of the game

• Must have deep understanding of the development of the character visual style / pipeline for outfit, weapon, and creature to deliver cutting edge assets
• Contribute the development of the character visual style/pipeline for outfits, weapons, and creatures to deliver cutting-edge assets
• Able to follow direction and react to critiques in a timely manner
• Collaborate with the concept, character, animation and tech art teams.
• Contribute to the references, concepts, and art direction, while also having the initiative to take the work further
• Work closely with the team and external partners to ensure that quality is consistent and cohesive
• Increase the team’s skills through mentorship and artistic techniques

Amazon Games applies the principles of Amazonian culture to the world of game design. We have a diverse team of talented, creative people pairing their love of making games with the unique strengths that come with being part of Amazon. Across all of our teams and locations, we are united by a common purpose: to share great gaming experiences with customers around the world. We believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate and connect through games, and we are looking for the right people to help us build that future. With the power of Twitch and AWS at your fingertips, you will have the chance to innovate in gameplay, creativity, marketing, and technology, while working alongside some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

At Amazon, we believe that games and connected experiences are the future of entertainment. If you share our belief that games will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art, come join us!

We are looking for a Senior Level Designer to join our New World team at Amazon Game Studios, Orange County. New World is an open world MMO set in an alternate version of the 17th Century where players will fight for survival as they explore and conquer the mysterious island of Aeternum.

As a Senior Level Designer on the World team, you’ll be responsible for creating, implementing, and curating Points of Interest (POIs), encounters, and puzzles for New World. You will work collaboratively with, mentor, and model best practices for other level / world designers. You will work collaboratively with and provide design direction to level / world artists, AI designers, and quest designers to support storytelling and make memorable locations for players to explore. You will work collaboratively with character designers, quest designers, effects and animation teams to make memorable experiences. It will be a combination of your experience, and an understanding of MMO/RPG world and encounter design that will define success. We are looking for individuals that are highly motivated and passionate for games.

In this role you will…

• Create 2D maps for world and encounter designs and implement them in game
• Create fun and exciting encounters and spaces for players to adventure within
• Maintain Design Documentation while working across teams.
• Update and manage data for characters, rewards, and lore.
• Design and Script Objectives, Puzzles and Gameplay.
• Work within technical pipelines and processes to ensure quality and scope are met and maintained
• Collaborate with quest, character, and art teams
• Maintain a strong creative relationship between production, design, programming, art, VFX, and SFX teams

Key job responsibilities
Vision and Leadership for World and Level Design, Gameplay Implementation, Gameplay Scripting.

About the team
Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

At Amazon, our goal is to create great games. We believe in ground-breaking games that can redefine the boundaries of player experience and change the way the world sees digital entertainment. Games have the power to connect people at a massive scale, and creating these experiences will help us produce some of the future’s most influential visual experiences. We seek the best game developers in the world to join our team and become the architects of this vision.

We are looking for a Cinematic Artist to join our team of artists, designers, programmers and other creatives to create compelling in-game cinematics which will tell the story of our game and world. As a Cinematic Artist you will collaborate with our Narrative Team, Art Team, Design Team and Engineers to bring innovative cinematics to life at AAA quality. You’ll use a combination of Storytelling and Cinematography to capture game play and dialogue while helping create the delivery of all narrative moments in the game. We are looking for an artist who can communicate effectively, problem solve, and raise the project’s technical and visual standards. You will have a broad impact and a lot of discretion.

Key job responsibilities
- Work closely with the Art Director, Narrative Team, Design Teams, Art Teams especially animation to invent, create and implement Cinematics that are incredibly satisfying to experience.
- Express storytelling through in-game cinematics and interactive moments with camera, staging and character animation
- Set the Cinematic quality bar with your personal work.
- Work with our engineers and our technical artist to define and improve our Cinematic pipeline.
- Implement animations created by internal artists and external co-developers to get the best performance for cinematics.


A day in the life
Collaborating closely across a wide range of teams and disciplines getting hands on with the in engine tools to build narrative, interactive and cinematic moments to bring our game world and characters to life.

About the team
About Us
Amazon Games applies the principles of Amazonian culture to the world of game design. We have a diverse team of talented, creative people pairing their love of making games with the unique strengths that come with being part of Amazon. Across all of our teams and locations, we are united by a common purpose: to share great gaming experiences with customers around the world. We believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate and connect through games, and we are looking for the right people to help us build that future. With the power of Twitch and AWS at your fingertips, you will have the chance to innovate in gameplay, creativity, marketing, and technology, while working alongside some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

Inclusive Culture, Work/Life Balance, & Career Growth
We embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer ten employee-led affinity groups with 190 global chapters, innovative benefits, and annual and ongoing learning experiences (including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences). Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance and offers flexible working hours. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. Additionally, our team is dedicated to supporting you with mentorship and pathways for ongoing development. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and promotes career choice.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Irvine, CA, USA