Marathon Weapons Design Lead

Bungie is seeking a highly technical, creative, and team-oriented Weapons lead who is excited to make Marathon weapons and equipment the best they can be.

Do you love the challenge of designing great gameplay? Are you excited to do the hard work of creating understanding across a large team around what you are trying to achieve, and take them along for the journey through development? Do you obsess over core game feel like camera FOV/shake changes, controller rumble values, and other behind-the-scenes tuning knobs? Are you a game designer looking to work on high-profile games with talented people in a team environment? If so, we have the job for you! Bungie is looking for a passionate and creative Weapons product owner for Marathon!

As the design lead on Marathon’s Weapons and Equipment team, you will collaborate with team members from other disciplines, including art, test, engineering, and animation to drive a holistic gameplay experience. You will contribute to the design processes to ensure your work and that of your team is the very best it can possibly be. You will also work closely with leads of other teams to plan cross-team features and systems changes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide leadership and creative direction to a multi-disciplinary team composed of gameplay designers, testers, artists, animators, and others
• Refine and drive the player design principles to set the quality bar for Marathon’s weapons and equipment ecosystem
• Help set the direction for extensible weapons systems and future weapons team work
• Work closely with the Leadership Team to set and achieve experience goals
• Help your team build compelling, balanced, second-to-second gameplay experiences
• Work with audio, effects, software engineering and animation developers to make in-game weapons features clear to players
• Exercise strong player empathy to put yourself in the shoes of players with various competencies, motivations, and skill levels

REQUIRED SKILLS            

• Previous experience as a Gameplay Systems Designer (or similar) on a shipped, high quality, combat-focused game
• Proven social intelligence, interpersonal skills, and empathy
• Giving and handling feedback within ambiguous frameworks
• Demonstrable understanding of how second-to-second action games work and why people play them
• Proven understanding of in-game rewards and what makes them valuable
• Experience collaborating with designers, artists, programmers, musicians, testers, and producers to achieve a common goal
• Maintaining diverse and positive work environment
• Ability to take direction and execute on goals
• Demonstrable oral and written communication skills
• Organizational and prioritization skills
• People management experience
• Leadership of large, multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience hiring, training, mentoring, and managing peer and junior designers
• Advanced understanding of game engines, technology and the game development process
• Experience with the landscape of competitive PvP games
• Ability to operate autonomously while holding a creative vision