Sr. Systems Designer
About The Position
Respawn is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to create and evolve progression and player systems that shape long-term engagement with Apex Legends. The role focuses on account progression, rewards, mastery, collections, player career, challenges, and other engagement features, defining how these systems connect and provide meaningful goals for different types of players. The designer will collaborate with Design, Product Management, UX, Engineering, Analytics, Art, and Production to take features from concept through implementation, iteration, and live operation. The work includes prototyping and tuning systems using player feedback, telemetry, and live-service learnings, while balancing player needs, design quality, production constraints, and business considerations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional game design experience on shipped progression, rewards, economies, engagement loops, or other interconnected game systems.
- Experience working on live-service, multiplayer, or free-to-play games.
- Strong implementation skills, including text scripting and the ability to create prototypes using in-house tools and platform.
- Experience taking features from concept through implementation and live iteration.
- Ability to break complex systems into clear rules, models, player flows, and requirements.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform design decisions.
- Experience collaborating with UX, Engineering, Product, Production, Analytics, and other disciplines.
- Strong verbal communication and written documentation skills, including presenting design rationale clearly to development teams and design leadership.
- Ability to balance player needs, design quality, production constraints, and business considerations.
Nice To Haves
- Experience designing account progression, mastery, challenges, collections, ranked systems, Battle Passes, or reward structures.
- Experience with live-service economies, currencies, faucets, sinks, or reward valuation.
- Experience designing onboarding or returning-player experiences.
- Competitive multiplayer and/or FPS experience.
- Experience using telemetry, experimentation, or player segmentation to evaluate design performance.
- Familiarity with Apex Legends and its progression, competitive, and live-service ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- Design progression, rewards, mastery, collection, and player engagement systems for Apex Legends, including system goals, rules, progression curves, reward structures, and player-facing experiences.
- Prototype, implement, tune, and iterate on systems using player feedback, telemetry, and live-service learnings.
- Contribute to estimation, scoping, and feasibility assessments of designs.
- Partner with UX, Engineering, and Technical Design to ensure complex systems are understandable, discoverable, easy to navigate, and scalable.
- Communicate design intent, tradeoffs, and recommendations to partners and design leadership.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing Apex systems based on player needs, data, competitive analysis, and broader live-service trends.
- Contribute to strong systems-design practices across the team.
Benefits
- United States benefits include paid time off (three weeks per year to start), 80 hours of sick time per year, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks of paid time off to bond with a baby, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k) for regular full-time employees.
- Certain roles may be eligible for bonuses and other incentive programs.
- Canada benefits include vacation (three weeks per year to start), 10 days of sick time per year, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity and four weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- EA benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and other locally tailored benefits.
- Workplace accommodations are provided for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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