Associate Encounter Designer

At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…

We are looking for an Associate Encounter Designer to join our Marvel Contest of Champions team! In this role, you will design and implement engaging combat encounters that challenge players appropriately and contribute to an exciting gameplay experience for our millions of active players. If you’re passionate about creating memorable gameplay moments and want to shape the way players experience combat, we’d love to hear from you.

• Design Combat Encounters:
• Create balanced and engaging combat encounters that align with established difficulty targets
• Implement encounters within the game using appropriate tools and systems
• Learn to apply understanding of game mechanics, character abilities, and player strategies

• Iterate and Refine Based on Feedback:
• Apply feedback from other designers to improve encounter designs
• Make appropriate adjustments to difficulty and mechanics based on playtest results
• Learn to identify when encounters meet intended design goals
• Understand how to balance opponent and buff combinations effectively

• Analyze Encounter Performance:
• Work with the team to gather and analyze combat encounter performance data
• Learn to interpret win rates, item usage, and player feedback
• Apply learnings to improve future encounter designs

• Collaborate Across Disciplines:
• Partner with Balance team on difficulty tuning
• Work with Mission designers to integrate encounters into quest structures
• Communicate encounter requirements clearly to implementation teams
• Provide constructive feedback during playtest sessions

• Develop Game Knowledge:
• Build deep understanding of game systems, character abilities, and player strategies
• Stay current with meta developments and character interactions
• Play the game regularly to maintain firsthand understanding of player experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience with an emphasis on game design.
• Familiarity with RPG, BCG, and action genres on mobile, PC, console, and pen-and-paper platforms.
• Experience playing Marvel Contest of Champions
• Rock-solid organizational skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities.
• Excellent communication skills, including documentation and presentation.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and related spreadsheet software.
• A strong desire to make the best games in the world alongside others that share your motivation.

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.

Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.

We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!

About Kabam

Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.

Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.

Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.

Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.