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Senior Game Designer, Systems
Blizzard Entertainment
Irvine, CA, United States
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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented senior systems designer to help shape the social, competitive and online community of our strategy games. Duties will primarily include interaction design and implementation of ranking, tournament, social and community driven features.
Responsibilities
• Work with team leadership as a Product Owner to design and influence game systems for online features which promote positive social, community, and competitive interaction.
• Work closely with the user interface, technical, and systems design teams to implement game interactions and user interface which support social systems.
• Act as a player advocate to ensure the highest level of usability, playability, and visual excitement.
Requirements
• A minimum of 5 years’ designing games or online social features
• Experience in user interface and interaction design with representative wire-frames or mock-ups
• Absolute passion for playing and making games
• At least (2) AAA shipped products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work well in a team environment
• Able to work creatively in a demanding technical environment
Pluses
• Education in sociology, social psychology or related field
• Experience in usability testing and analysis
• Extensive experience in current Action Real-Time Strategy (ARTS) games and familiarity with past ARTS game history and evolution
• Experience in other game development disciplines: User Interface, Audio, Art, Engineering
• Experience using the StarCraft II Editor
Required Application Materials
• Resume
• Cover Letter which should include:
◦ Why you are interested in working at Blizzard
◦ What games you are currently playing
**Only submittals with Cover Letters will be considered.