Senior Game Designer, Systems & Content (Contract) - World of Warcraft | Irvine, CA
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Systems & Content Designer to join the World of Warcraft Classic team. This is a temporary position supporting ongoing World of Warcraft Classic initiatives, with an initial assignment through June 2027 and the possibility of extension. As a designer on the Classic team, you will help create, implement, and maintain gameplay systems, features, rewards, and live content across multiple Classic products. This role will play a key part in supporting World of Warcraft Classic initiatives worldwide. The ideal candidate combines strong design instincts with excellent implementation skills. They are comfortable working on gameplay systems, rewards, spells, progression mechanics, data management, and live-service content. They enjoy collaborating across disciplines and can take features from concept through implementation and polish. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is in Irvine, CA.
Requirements
- Strong familiarity with World of Warcraft.
- 8+ years of professional game design experience or equivalent.
- Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems, content, or features.
- Experience working with game development tools and data-driven workflows.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working on live-service games.
- Experience with rewards, itemization, progression, or class design.
- Experience working with large datasets or content pipelines.
- Experience supporting in-game stores, cosmetics, or collectibles.
- Experience working across multiple game branches, versions, or development environments.
- Shipped content updates, expansions, or live game features
Responsibilities
- Design and create items, spells, rewards, progression systems, and player-facing experiences.
- Support live game updates, events, and new content releases.
- Collaborate with designers, engineers, artists, QA, and production.
- Work with game data, content tools, and implementation pipelines to bring ideas to life.
- Playtest, iterate, and improve experiences through feedback.
Benefits
- 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
- Relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
