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# World Designer [Fixed Term] at Avalanche Studios Group

- **Company:** Avalanche Studios Group
- **Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/avalanchestudios/872fcdbb-41af-4777-acc0-a6be22ef04d5

## Job description

## The role

As a Senior World Designer, you will work on designing and execution of an immersive open world, shaping landscapes, biomes, landmarks, roads, and rivers to enhance exploration and gameplay. Your work will include terrain sculpting, material painting, and strategic placement of key locations to ensure a seamless and engaging experience.

You will translate high-level world design into actionable features, ensuring clear scope, priorities, and technical feasibility. You will oversee milestone progress, balancing creative vision with production constraints while collaborating closely with Art, Tech, and Level Design teams to refine and optimise world-building efforts.

Your expertise in spatial design, composition, and game mechanics will help create a living, interconnected world that delivers a compelling player experience.

[Please note that this is a fixed term employment]

## What You’ll Do

Own a large subset of the world and be responsible for the overall design of the environment and implementation of simpler activities in it.

- Typical tasks include; planning regions, terrain editing, roads, waterways, placement and distribution of POI’s and landmarks, creating spaces and paths through them according to specified gameplay metrics.
- Work closely with Lead, Product Owner and other teams to understand the game and its needs, constraints, and intentions to design adapted solutions to realize the project's vision.
- Help identify problems and improve workflows both with the toolset and content pipeline/production (i.e. structure/building prefabs, asset collections, layout templates etc.)

## Who You Are

You have a breadth of expertise in the World Design discipline and its many practical aspects such as: flow of large scale spaces, terrain editing, biomes, landmarks, locations, roads, and rivers as well as an understanding of how to best represent lore, pertinent story beats and important parts of world building in that work.

- You are a self motivated developer that enjoys ownership and are not afraid to wear several hats
- You have a keen eye for composition, visual aesthetics and distribution. Both in terms of layouts of environments and how different layers of gameplay work together in harmony.
- You’re someone with previous experience as a World Designer (or equivalent) in the game industry, ideally having worked on an open-world title.
- You have great understanding of dependencies and associated workflows of other departments

Note: Research shows under-represented groups in the industry might not apply to a job if they don’t check off every requirement. At Avalanche, we’re more about your drive to learn and interest in tackling challenges than what’s on your resume! So don’t stress if you don’t tick every box— shoot us your application anyway! Diverse opinions and different experiences are what make our teams so great, not itemized lists of qualifications.

The Stockholm location Our Stockholm office is situated in Södermalm, the beating heart of the city’s game industry. It’s a physical representation of our games – the lush vegetation of Just Cause and theHunter: Call of the Wild meets corroded metal straight out of Mad Max. Our hybrid model requires you to be in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays to foster collaboration and creativity.

## Our values

At Avalanche Studios Group, we create worlds beyond limits. But that’s not exclusive to our games, so we’re committed to developing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All Avalanchers have a shared responsibility to create an open work environment where everyone is treated equally and respectfully. Being part of our world is not contingent on your heritage, your gender, or sexual orientation. It’s all about your passion and creativity.

How to apply To apply for this position, please register below and provide your CV in English. We review applications continuously. All further studio-related information is provided under a non-disclosure agreement.

At Avalanche Studios Group we're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our passionate team, but please note that relocation assistance is not available for this role.

## About Avalanche Studios Group

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Avalanche Studios Group creates innovative, world-class open-world gaming experiences across multiple genres.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Nordisk Film)
- **Headquarters**: Stockholm, Sweden (with additional offices in Malmö and Södermalm)
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Not publicly named (originated from a small strike team of developers)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer Games / Interactive Entertainment
- **Target customers**: B2C (gamers on PC, consoles)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To create innovative open-world games and empower players to explore and experiment, while fostering a sustainable and inclusive workplace.

## Products & Services
- **Just Cause franchise**: Open-world action-adventure series featuring explosive gameplay and player agency.
- **Mad Max** & **Rage 2**: Open-world action games set in post-apocalyptic worlds.
- **theHunter: Call of the Wild** & **Call of the Wild: The Angler**: Best-in-class outdoor simulation games (hunting and fishing).
- **Generation Zero**: Co-op open-world survival game set in 1980s Sweden.
- **Second Extinction** & **Ravenbound**: Self-published titles (top-down shooter, open-world roguelite).
- **Apex Engine (Avalanche Open World Engine™)**: Proprietary technology enabling vast, dynamic open worlds and used across all games.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Total Funding**: EUR 10.3 million total funding (amount disclosed; valuation not publicly available)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $24M (latest), headcount of 381 as of last reporting (down 18.9% YoY)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company Nordisk Film
- **Growth Signals**: 20+ year track record; recently expanded self-publishing; active hiring for 10+ open roles across disciplines

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Apex Engine**: Decades of investment in a custom open-world engine that delivers unique scale and emergent gameplay.
- **No-crunch culture**: Overtime is considered a failure and the exception, not the norm – a strong differentiator in game development.
- **Diverse portfolio**: Spans AAA action titles, simulation games, and indie-style self-published projects, reducing reliance on any single franchise.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue delivering innovative open-world games across owned IP and partnerships.
- Strengthen self-publishing and expand the live-service potential of titles like theHunter and Generation Zero.
- Invest in employee-driven knowledge sharing through “Crafts” (discipline-based groups) and maintain a sustainable, inclusive work environment.

## Why Work Here
- **Work-life balance**: Explicit no-crunch policy; massages, meditation, sports (yoga, soccer, basketball) offered during work hours.
- **Culture**: Weekly surveys, one-on-ones with producers, transparent goals, and inclusive environment regardless of background.
- **Career development**: Clear career paths, Crafts for cross-project mentorship, workshops, lunch & learns, and GDC attendance.
- **Hybrid/Office**: Offices in Stockholm and Malmö; hybrid work model indicated in job postings.
- **Perks**: Fresh fruit, hot/cold drinks, fika, after-works, pumpkin carving contests, board game nights.

## Sources
1. [avalanchestudios.com/careers](https://avalanchestudios.com/careers)
2. [avalanchestudios.com/about](https://avalanchestudios.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/avalanchestudiosgroup](https://linkedin.com/company/avalanchestudiosgroup)
4. [jobs.lever.co/avalanchestudios](https://jobs.lever.co/avalanchestudios)
5. [avalanchestudios.com/life-at-avalanche](https://avalanchestudios.com/life-at-avalanche)

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