Marathon Activities Senior Design Lead

Are you inspired to create exciting PvPvE activities? Do you find yourself daydreaming of ways to create exciting, competitive player encounters? Do you think of ways to solve problems systemically to make as broad of an impact as possible?  

Bungie Studios is looking for a team-centric design lead with a strong eye towards activities design to lead multidisciplinary initiatives working on the content, systems, and tools that makes our player experiences first-class. 

As an Activities Senior Design Lead, you will work closely with the Activities Creative Leader and guide teams of designers, artists, engineers, and testers responsible for crafting, maintaining, and upgrading our activities content. You will implement compelling content directly, and mentor and guide designers in your area to ensure their work creates amazing player experiences and advances their craft. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

You are a Senior Design Leader of multiple interdisciplinary teams who create a compelling world activity ecosystem. You will be accountable for: 

• Interpreting direction from the product group Creative Leader and Game Director into actionable goals and translating into delivery of first-class player experiences
• Communicating the progress and relative importance of these experiences upward
• Setting high-level design guidance and creating alignment through communication, collaboration, and coordination across the organization
• Evaluating and committing to content and feature proposals and needs
• Looking ahead and planning with other area discipline leads to forecast and address future needs and issues for the game
• Providing ongoing direction, feedback, and support for the work being done by all teams within your broader product group
• Evaluating and planning for live-game updates to gameplay balance and tuning
• Managing and mentoring designers on your team

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Demonstrable knowledge of PvP and PvE systems and design for action games
• Experience successfully leading multiple interdisciplinary teams through several game development cycles
• Knowledge of many types of action games (FPS, 3rd person, melee combat, ARPG, etc.) and online play (cooperative, competitive, shooter, MMO, etc.), especially the extraction genre
• Ability to interpret and achieve high-level experience goals set by Game Directors
• Ability to balance asks for short-term problems alongside long-term goals
• Self-motivated with an ability to inspire and motivate your team
• Experience hiring, training, mentoring, and managing peer and junior designers
• In-depth understanding of game engines, technology, and the game development process
• Thorough oral and written communication skills

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

• People management experience
• Discipline-leadership experience 
• Experience developing live-service games