# Design Director, Battle Pass

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Cary
**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/5782935004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d8d1d1f3-e63

## Description

## Design Director, Battle Pass

We are seeking a highly experienced Design Director to lead the vision for the Battle Pass, Fortnite Crew, and other pass products at Epic Games. As a key member of our 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

### 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

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

### Benefits

- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums covered for you and your dependents

- A 401k with competitive match

- Unlimited PTO and sick time

- Recognition for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical

- A robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents

## Skills

### Required
- game design
- pass-type engagement systems
- subscription experience
- data analysis
- UXUI
- product management
- progression systems
- monetization structures
- XP system