Marathon Staff Events Systems Designer

Bungie is seeking a highly technical, creative, and team-oriented Staff Events Systems Designer to join Marathon’s Programming team. Our team’s mission is to craft compelling seasonal events that enhance replay ability, deepen player engagement, and bring the world of Marathon to life. In the extraction genre, this involves crafting events that seamlessly blend with tactical gameplay, world-building, and a dynamic live-service model that are accessible to casual and competitive players.

As a Staff Events Systems Designer, you will execute a roadmap for in-game events. You will leverage your knowledge of tech design, activities, sandbox mechanics, and investment systems to integrate events into the broader game ecosystem and are technically stable and scalable. You will work with live operations and marketing to tailor experiences, events, and communications to specific player needs and motivations. While this role will largely be focused on events, you will also be responsible for creating and iterating systems that drive overall player progression, rewards, and engagement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing and executing a roadmap for in-game events that details a clear relationship with all areas of design
• Creating schedules and gating strategies that align with player progression and investments, seasonal content, and live-service goals
• Creating and iterating systems that drive overall player progression, rewards, and engagement
• Evaluating the success of events next to business KPIs, goals and player satisfaction
• Using data-driven insights to iterate on designs in a live-service model
• Creating technical designs for managing and verifying events systems for a live service game
• Review the content of cross-discipline partner teams and skillfully work with them to revise and ensure consistent rewarding experiences
• Maintain Marathon IP quality, consistency, along with sandbox design principles while implementing economy content

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Previous experience as an Investment Designer for a large-scale live-service game
• Deep understanding of what makes events impactful and how they contribute to the broader player experience
• Understanding of live-service operations, event mechanics, and player segmentation
• Experience designing, documenting, and building systems
• Modeling and simulating economies to achieve design intent
• Developing and using player analytics to measure success of events
• Proficiency in technical scripting to create content directly in our editing tools
• Intuitive understanding of what engages players and what brings them value and excitement in a complicated challenge space
• Excitement for collaboration with designers, artists, narrative, programmers, audio professionals, quality assurance, marketing, and producers to achieve a common goal, no matter where they are
• Ability to lead communication and “why” behind gameplay design decisions to align teams
• Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams
• Ability to handle ambiguity, including giving and handling feedback despite that ambiguity

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

• Experience designing live-service events in an extraction genre
• Experience hiring, training, and managing other Designers