Destiny Raid & Dungeon Activity Designer (Mid to Senior)
Are you looking for the challenge of creating great cooperative gameplay player experiences? Do you relish the idea of crafting player stories about fireteam going into the unknown and achieving the impossible? Can you imagine how to construct challenges that demand coordination to overcome? Do you believe game rewards should be prestigious, earned by commitment, mastery, and replay? If so, you just might be the ideal candidate to become Bungie’s next Raid & Dungeon (RAD) Designer.
As a RAD Activity Designer, you will be responsible for collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to generate ideas for encounters & activities, and converting them into fully realized fireteam experiences in the game. RAD Activity Designers are tasked with writing all of the script logic of the activity, building a database of mechanic components, authoring the structure that defines the location of enemy combatants in the encounter, as well as working closely with the World Artists to craft level designs. You will balance the gameplay skill and coordination required from groups of players to overcome the difficulty of your encounter designs.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write and maintain design specs that define experience goals based on theme of creative direction
- Continuously align with the Area Lead to ensure all design elements support the creative direction and are cohesive with activity pillars.
- Collaborate with and articulate dependencies for collaborator teams: Test, VFX, Bosses, Audio, and Narrative
- Build and maintain RAD activity, encounter, and investment content
- Skillfully iterate on your design based on feedback from Area leadership, peers, and playtesting
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external teams as necessary to deliver complex activity composed of multiple features
- Demonstrable design acumen: spatial, mechanical, experiential (pacing/tuning)
- Proficiency with Unity or comparable level design & scripting tool
- Read and write Python or comparable scripting language
- Functional understanding of tags workflow or comparable database editor
- In-depth knowledge of Destiny Raids, Dungeons, or comparable pinnacle cooperative PvE activities
- Exemplary communication skills, social intelligence, great interpersonal skills
- Outstanding analytical skills and attention to detail
- Strong desire for continuous improvement in all aspects of the job
Listed below is this role's base pay range. When a role is to be filled by candidates at multiple levels, more than one pay range will be shown. 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.
Mid to Senior
$90,000—$156,000 USD
Bungie employees in the U.S. also receive:
- 20 days of accrued time-off in the form of PTO and sabbatical days, depending on the level of the position
- 10 paid Floating Days annually, prorated in the first year of employment based on start date
- 10 paid Bungie-observed holidays annually
- One hour of Paid Sick Time (PST) for every 30 hours worked
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