Game Designer, Battlegrounds - Hearthstone

About the position Pull up a chair and join us by the hearth! Blizzard is looking for an experienced Game Designer to join the Hearthstone Battlegrounds team. If you have a passion for the design and craft of card games and want to participate in the future of Hearthstone, we want to hear from you! Our team values creativity, collaboration and a commitment to quality and we are searching for experienced developers to add to our team of passionate game makers. As a Game Designer on the Hearthstone Battlegrounds team, you'll be responsible for creating the exciting themes and mechanics that go into our content updates. In this role, you will use your background in game design to create engaging mechanics and craft unique flavors for new Battlegrounds minions and Heroes. You will work with interdisciplinary teams to deliver players highly polished content while iterating the designs based on feedback, testing, and your own intuition. Your player insight, analytical abilities, and creativity will help create player-focused designs that will surprise and delight millions of players all around the world. As with every design role on the Hearthstone team, you will be a champion of Blizzard's commitment to delivering world class quality. This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work required to be on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Execute on creative vision for Hearthstone Battleground's future seasons
• Use your keen design and analytical sensibilities to design and develop mechanics, concepts, and flavor that encapsulates the charm of Hearthstone
• Coordinate with production on roadmap planning and tactical execution of design goals across disciplines
• Scripting and implementing heroes and minions using internal tools
• Participating in playtests and giving feedback on other designers' contributions
• Set a good example for your team to collaborate, communicate, listen and be respectful. Inspire designers through your actions, so that others may observe and be motivated to join in
• Advocate for and explain product vision and design decisions both inside and outside the battlegrounds design team

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of game design experience on a shipped title or ongoing live service game
• Experience working with data to inform design decisions
• A strong sense of what makes a gameplay experience compelling and fun, as well as the ability to articulate well why a game design decision is good or bad
• A demonstrable understanding of the how the player experience in competitive card games evolves as a consequence of the introduction of new mechanics and synergies
• Outstanding self-motivation and initiative
• Demonstrated ability to work well within a highly collaborative environment
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Commitment to creating a safe space for collaboration, communication, and creativity across all subject areas and departments

Nice-to-haves

• Experience implementing game content using a programming or scripting language
• Expert/Tournament level autobattler play experience
• Creative writing skills
• A familiarity with statistics or analytics

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 if required to move geographic locations for the job

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