Senior Game Designer, Systems & Content (Contract) - World of Warcraft | Irvine, CA

BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC; United States; Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Mental health & wellbeing programs

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is seeking a Senior Systems & Content Designer (Contract) for World of Warcraft Classic, based in Irvine, CA.

This hybrid role blends on-site and remote work to support ongoing Classic initiatives through mid-2027 with potential extension. You will design items, spells, rewards, and progression, while maintaining live content and coordinating with cross-disciplinary teams including engineers and art and QA.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional game design experience or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems, content, or features.
• Experience working with game development tools and data-driven workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design items, spells, rewards, progression systems, and player-facing experiences.
• Support live game updates, events, and new content releases.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, artists, QA, and production.
• Work with game data, content tools, and implementation pipelines to bring ideas to life.
• Playtest, iterate, and improve experiences through feedback.

Skills

Systems design

Gameplay design

Live-service experience

Data-driven design

Collaboration

Tools

Content tools

Game development tools

Job description

Team Name: World of Warcraft

Job Title:

Senior Game Designer, Systems & Content (Contract) - World of Warcraft | Irvine, CA

Requisition ID:

R028230

Job Description:

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Systems & Content Designer to join the World of Warcraft Classic team. This is a temporary position supporting ongoing World of Warcraft Classic initiatives, with an initial assignment through June 2027 and the possibility of extension.

As a designer on the Classic team, you will help create, implement, and maintain gameplay systems, features, rewards, and live content across multiple Classic products. This role will play a key part in supporting World of Warcraft Classic initiatives worldwide.

The ideal candidate combines strong design instincts with excellent implementation skills. They are comfortable working on gameplay systems, rewards, spells, progression mechanics, data management, and live-service content. They enjoy collaborating across disciplines and can take features from concept through implementation and polish.

This role is anticipated to be a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is in Irvine, CA.

What you bring to the table:

• Design and create items, spells, rewards, progression systems, and player-facing experiences.
• Support live game updates, events, and new content releases.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, artists, QA, and production.
• Work with game data, content tools, and implementation pipelines to bring ideas to life.
• Playtest, iterate, and improve experiences through feedback.

Minimum Requirements

• Strong familiarity with World of Warcraft.
• 8+ years of professional game design experience or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing gameplay systems, content, or features.
• Experience working with game development tools and data-driven workflows.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Extra Points

• Experience working on live-service games.
• Experience with rewards, itemization, progression, or class design.
• Experience working with large datasets or content pipelines.
• Experience supporting in-game stores, cosmetics, or collectibles.
• Experience working across multiple game branches, versions, or development environments.
• Shipped content updates, expansions, or live game features

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to [e-mail]. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

At Blizzard Entertainment, we pour our hearts and souls into everything we create. Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo, and StarCraft, we’ve been creating genre-defining games for millions of players around the world for more than 30 years. We’re on a quest: bring our dreams to life and craft the most epic entertainment experiences ever. Hard work, iteration and polish go into the Blizzard secret recipe, but the most important ingredients come from talented people who share our vision. If that sounds like you, join us.

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• 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;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $82,240.00 - $152,160.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.