# Design Director, Battle Pass

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Montreal
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739711

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/5820698004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9bf22c34-c01

## Description

## Design Director, Battle Pass

We're seeking a seasoned Design Director to lead the vision for the Battle Pass, Fortnite Crew, and other pass products. As a key member of the Fortnite team, you will be responsible for establishing the vision and directly owning the outcome of Passes across Fortnite.

### Key Responsibilities

- Directly responsible for the Pass product design and success, framing vision and goals for the larger team with an outcomes-driven approach

- Guide design efforts for Passes to create a holistic player experience, including unlock systems, progression systems, rewards, and monetization structures, co-leading feature development with UXUI and Product partners

- Work with both 1st party and 3rd party experiences, such as Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), to ensure progression integrity regardless of where players choose to play

- Monitor and maintain healthy play in Fortnite, including providing direction and mentoring the XP system team. Establish guardrails and a strategy for the XP system

- Attend playtests and play the live game to provide feedback, and identify practical solutions to problems and opportunities to incorporate into your team's work

### Requirements

- 7+ years of experience across game design as a senior leader overseeing pass-type engagement systems; subscription experience is a plus

- Highly analytical – eager and comfortable monitoring data streams and working with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Product Managers to align on product goals

- Strong stakeholder management across the teams that make Battle Pass possible (Art & Cosmetics, Progression, Marketing, Product Management, Gameplay Design, Quest)

- Deep experience with PC / Console, Mobile, F2P, and Live Service Progression & Monetization Systems

- An innovator in the space that tracks industry trends and defines new ones, thinking abstractly in spaces without precedent to define the future of pass design. Every Pass is a new opportunity to try something new and expand impact

- Demonstrated talent for empathizing with players and a deep understanding of player motivations, forms of play, and the effects of goal setting on play

- Interest in progression products in Fortnite, Battle Royale, or other multiplayer games, with an understanding of what makes them effective

## Benefits

- 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents

- Supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance

- Weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match

- Employee assistance program (EAP) and a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health

## Skills

### Required
- game design
- pass-type engagement systems
- subscription experience
- data analysis
- stakeholder management
- PC / Console, Mobile, F2P, and Live Service Progression & Monetization Systems