Description
We're looking for a Director of Design to lead the vision for the Battle Pass, Club, and other progression products in Fortnite. As a key member of the Fortnite team, you will be responsible for defining the vision and owning the results of passes in Fortnite. You will work closely with the Game Design, UX/UI, Production, Art, and Quality Assurance teams to ensure the success of our products. This role requires close collaboration with external stakeholders, including Art, Seasonal Design (quests, gameplay), UX/UI, Product Management, Data Science, and Marketing, while maintaining alignment with executive stakeholders.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Defining a clear vision and setting goals for passes in Fortnite, ensuring a cohesive experience for players across systems, progression, rewards, and monetization structures.
- Guiding the design efforts to provide a consistent experience for players, including systems, progression, rewards, and monetization structures, co-directing feature development with UX/UI and Product teams.
- Collaborating with internal and external experiences, such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite, to ensure integrity of progression, regardless of where players choose to play.
- Ensuring balance and health of the game experience in Fortnite, including directing and guiding the XP team, and defining strategic guidelines for the system.
- Participating in game testing and regularly playing the live version to formulate concrete comments and identify practical solutions and opportunities for improvement.
We're looking for someone with at least seven years of experience in game design as a senior leader, with responsibility over engagement-type pass systems, and experience in subscription models being an asset. You should have a solid analytical capacity, comfortable with data tracking and collaboration with data scientists, analysts, and product managers to align objectives.
Key qualities we're looking for include:
- Excellent stakeholder management within the teams contributing to the Battle Pass, including Art and cosmetic elements, Progression, Marketing, Product Management, Gameplay, and Quests.
- In-depth experience with progression and monetization systems on PC and console, mobile, free-to-play, and live-service games.
- Innovative spirit, able to anticipate industry trends and define new ones, designing unique solutions to evolve passes.
- Demonstrated ability to understand player motivations, playstyles, and the impact of objectives on engagement.
- Strong interest in progression products in Fortnite, Battle Royale, or other multiplayer games, with a good understanding of the factors that make them effective.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer 100% paid premiums associated with social benefits, both for employees and dependents, and additional coverage for medical, dental, and vision care, serious illnesses, telemedicine, life insurance, death or mutilation by accident insurance, and long-term disability insurance. We also offer a weekly indemnity (short-term disability) and a retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions. Beyond our employee assistance program, we offer a comprehensive well-being mental health program through Modern Health, providing free therapy and coaching services to employees and dependents.