Treyarch is searching for the next member of its Global Systems Design Team. Global Systems is responsible for the design and creation of expansive game-wide systems that provide long-term fun and engagement in our games. Most of the systems this team delivers are intertwined across the entire game and support a mix of PVP and PVE modes that cater to a variety of casual, hardcore, and competitive audiences.

As a Systems Designer at Treyarch you will collaborate with development teammates from all disciplines to bring gameplay, social, and meta systems to reality. Starting from high-level design direction, you’ll work with other Systems Designers and team members to create design documentation and assist prototype, iteration, and execution of a variety of global systems features.

As a Systems Designer at Treyarch, you will:

Pitch systems design features, improvements, and solutions.
Create detailed and visual design documentation that clearly communicates the vision and requirements of Global Systems features.
Work with cross-disciplinary teams to prototype, iterate, and execute game systems to a high quality bar.
Review captured statistical data, player feedback, and development team feedback to iterate, improve, and tune owned features.
Identify opportunities to improve systems design process and workflows and put those improvements into practice with the help of development partners.
Playtest regularly and provide feedback on global systems features and other components of our games.

The skills and experience you’ll need:

The ability to bring a positive, supportive, and collaborative attitude to a team environment.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to find the best solution that aligns with the goals and restraints of the project.
Self-motivated work ethic with a strong desire to learn, absorb feedback, and tackle a variety of design work.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Strong attention to detail and the ability to define the full breadth of a design’s use-cases and requirements.
Ability to facilitate and interpret statistical data to inform design opportunities, problems, and improvements.
Ability to tune systems design components using feedback from a variety of sources to be both competitive and balanced for all player types.
An empathetic approach to resolving interpersonal conflicts with other designers and disciplines.

Our ideal candidate will have:

Passion for playing and making video games.
2+ shipped commercial titles or 6+ years of professional experience in a systems design role.
Strong understanding of Call of Duty, other shooters, and multiplayer industry trends.
Experience designing systems for AAA multiplayer shooter titles.
Experience designing progression, monetization, competitive, and/or social systems.
Experience developing for a live-ops title.
Experience in Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel.
Willing to complete and submit a written design document evaluation if asked.

About Treyarch

Founded in 1996, Treyarch is an award-winning videogame studio, driven to create awesome games for the world to enjoy. It is an approach that has helped make the studio behind the Black Ops series an industry-leading developer. Call of Duty®: Black Ops, Call of Duty®: Black Ops II, Call of Duty®: Black Ops III, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4, and the studio’s most recent release, Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Cold War, have all gone on to break industry records. Additionally, Treyarch is the birthplace of fan favorite, Call of Duty’s Zombies.

Working at Treyarch means having the opportunity to work on some of the biggest videogames in the industry, all within a culture that values individual talent and the teams that bring games to life. We provide our teams with the cutting-edge development tools needed to make their most ambitious plans a reality, allowing for rapid iteration and the ability to create the kinds of memorable gameplay moments that are ultimately shared by millions of fans around the world. We also embrace challenges, knowing that together, we can overcome anything…and hopefully inspire a few new game developers along the way.