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# Lead Open World Designer at absurdventures

Compensation

$150,000 – $175,000/yr

**Location**
: Santa Monica, California

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Jul 31, 2026

## Description

Lead Open World Designer role responsible for owning the vision, systems, and content of an open world experience. The position leads a multidisciplinary team to create immersive open-world content with characters, encounters, side missions, puzzles, secrets, discoverables, and collectibles, while collaborating closely with narrative, engineering, art, animation, and co-dev partners. It is a full-time, on-site role in Santa Monica, California with benefits and a salary range of $150,000 to $175,000 per year.

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