Lead Game Designer, Systems - Unannounced Game | Irvine, CA

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Your Mission

At Blizzard, we craft genre-defining games and legendary worlds for all to share. Through unparalleled creativity and storytelling, we create immersive universes and iconic characters that are beloved across platforms, borders, backgrounds, and generations - only made possible by building a work environment that nurtures the artistry of game development and unleashes the aspirations of our people.

We embrace the core philosophy of our IP: We are stronger as a team. If you're looking for people who support each other in times of success, as well as adversity, you may be the next Hero we're looking for!

We are looking for an accomplished designer to lead our Systems Design Team to help us define and craft a new, unannounced game for Blizzard. As a key member of the development team, you will have proven experience as a leader, and a strong background in system design, especially in critical thinking and analysis. You should be able to look at problems from the perspectives of all types of players--from the most casual to the most advanced--and help drive features and designs that make Blizzard games enjoyable by all.

You are driven by accessibility and simplicity and excel at working alongside other disciplines to create systems and features that innovate and improve the projects you work on. You can drive design from creation and prototyping to implementation, iteration, and bug fixing. You are able to quickly adapt to changes in scope and priority and think about the user experience in everything you do.But, most importantly, you are a strong communicator, and you want to share your experiences and knowledge with others, helping mentor your team of designers and level up those around you.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position with some work from home and some in office, the home studio for this position is Irvine, CA.

Requirements

• 8+ Years of experience as a designer with 3+ years as a Lead. 

• Exceptional interpersonal and verbal and written communications skills.

• Deep knowledge creating systems that provide players with hundreds of hours of systematically driven content.

• Able to communicate effectively with other teams and groups.

• Strong sense of what makes a fun and compelling experience for game systems.

• Excellent grasp of standard mathematics, statistics, and probability as it pertains to game design and game balance.

• Strong technical skills, with experience with visual scripting languages and/or industry standard toolsets (Unity, Unreal, etc.)

• Expertise with MS Office, specifically Excel.

Pluses

• Strong math skills.

• Experience working closely with UI/UX.

• Prior work experience or education in other (non-design) teams: art, programming, production, or audio.

• Experience designing systems that run equally well on console and PC

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment.  We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. 

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!  Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.  You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.