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Marathon Senior Economy Designer

Hybrid / Bungie-Approved Remote Locations

Bungie is seeking a highly technical, creative, and team-oriented Senior Economy Designer to join Marathon’s Loot and Economy team. Our team’s mission is to deliver engaging and rewarding gameplay loops for players through designing meaningful player progression, decision-making, and risk-reward dynamics. In the extraction genre, this involves crafting economy systems based on need that motivate exploration and combat, drive long-term engagement, and foster excitement through tension and uncertainty.

As a Senior Economy designer, you will be responsible for designing a robust suite of loot items and resources, balancing their distribution, and building a consistent and clear player economy for Marathon. You will drive design alignment and collaboration across creative disciplines. You will ensure a holistic experience for features in relation player achievements and progression, personalization, seasonal content, narrative, UI/UX, encounter design, and technical realities. You'll be an advocate for continuous iteration, ensuring that your designs evolve to meet the highest standards of gameplay excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Collaboratively plan, design, and evaluate compelling Loot and Economy features
  • Implementing and tuning economy content
  • Creating technical designs for managing and verifying economic systems for a live service game
  • Support the work of cross-discipline teams to understand and execute on what is best for the game
  • Review the content of 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
  • Ownership of features and development of design decisions with partner teams

REQUIRED SKILLS

  • Previous experience as an Economy Designer for a large-scale live-service game
  • Experience designing, documenting, and building Loot & Economy systems
  • Modeling and simulating economies to achieve design intent
  • Developing and using player analytics to measure the health of economies
  • 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, programmers, audio professionals, quality assurance and producers to achieve a common goal, no matter where they are
  • Ability to creatively align with the team and then take initiative locally and externally
  • 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 loot and economy systems in an extraction genre
  • Experience hiring, training, and managing other Designers
Listed below is this role's base pay range. In other locations that Bungie has approved for remote work, this pay range may be adjusted up to +/- 10% and some roles may be classified as non-exempt (hourly). 

This range is determined by an array of factors, including training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. Additionally, it is subject to change and may be modified in the future. 

In the journey to make incredible worlds, Bungie employees don't simply do meaningful work - they receive meaningful support. Competitive salaries and discretionary bonus opportunities are just the start. We offer comprehensive healthcare coverage, generous 401(k) matching, flexible time off policies, paid parental leave, social clubs, and so much more. Check out our benefits page: Benefits - Bungie Careers to see all the perks that come with joining Bungie.

Bellevue Pay Range

$125,000 - $150,000 USD

 

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