Jobs at Absurd Ventures

Lead the open-world design vision and strategy, managing a multidisciplinary team to create exploration-focused content: encounters, side missions, puzzles, secrets, collectibles, and dynamic systems. Collaborate with narrative, engineers, artists, and external partners to iterate on playable content, blend AI/systems with scripted content, balance populations and encounters, and contribute hands-on to the playable experience while fostering collaboration and innovation.

Record, edit, mix, and deliver high-quality dialogue and audio for AAA games, animation, advertising, and broadcast. Manage motion-capture and multi-channel wireless workflows, perform detailed dialogue cleanup and conforming, ensure loudness and delivery specs, organize large asset libraries, and collaborate with production, sound design, and implementation teams to deliver implementation-ready files on schedule.

Lead production for Cinematics, Narrative, and Audio on an open-world game. Plan schedules, manage milestones, coordinate cross-discipline dependencies, track narrative pipeline and budgets, surface risks, run reviews and standups, mentor associate producers, and ensure creative intent and scope are protected while delivering ambitious content.

Lead the design and implementation of intuitive, responsive game user interfaces and artwork. Create wireframes, prototypes, vector/icon assets, and optimized raster exports. Collaborate with designers, artists, and engineers, run user tests, ensure UI consistency across PC, consoles, and mobile, and influence overall UI art direction.

Lead strategy and operations for a books publishing imprint, driving revenue, profitability, and creative direction. Oversee editorial, production, design, marketing, and external partners; manage budgets, P&L, acquisitions, author/agent relations, and full title lifecycles. Represent the imprint externally and attend industry events.

As Campaign Design Lead, you'll drive mission design for story missions and single-player campaigns, leading a multidisciplinary team to innovate gameplay and storytelling in an open-world environment.

This role invites potential candidates to submit a general application for future Creative Services positions, with no specific qualifications outlined.

This is a general application for future roles in the Film & TV teams. Submitting a resume allows consideration for various positions.

This position is a general application for upcoming roles in Animated Series teams. Interested candidates can submit their resumes for future consideration.

This is a general application for future roles in Comics and Graphic Novels teams. Submit your resume for potential opportunities.

This position allows candidates to submit a general application for future corporate team roles within the organization.

This is a general application for future game development roles, allowing candidates to submit their resumes for consideration.

Lead planning and execution of voiceover and performance capture shoots, build and maintain production schedules, coordinate talent/studios/vendors, track deliverables across Narrative/Audio/Animation/Cinematics teams, prepare call sheets and scripts, identify and mitigate risks, process SAG talent payments, and support marketing audio needs to ensure assets are captured and delivered on schedule.

Lead ML strategy and integrate ML into real-time game systems and toolchains. Design and deploy LLM techniques, build training and inference pipelines for on-device and real-time models, prototype ML-driven gameplay features, analyze telemetry for personalization, and mentor engineers.

Lead the design and development of core gameplay systems, mentor engineers, enforce coding standards, and manage technical collaboration.

Implement and polish cinematic sequences in Unreal Engine 5 using Sequencer and Blueprint. Build cinematic control logic, integrate animation, audio, and mission systems, diagnose runtime issues in an open-world environment, and document pipelines while collaborating across design, animation, audio, and engineering.