Senior Systems Designer, Progression & Engagement

HellaGoodAudio; West Chatsworth (CA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Sick time

Holidays

Job summary

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to shape progression and player systems for Apex Legends. You will define progression, rewards, mastery, collections, and engagement features, collaborating across design, UX, engineering, analytics, art, and production.

The role emphasizes prototyping, live iteration, and data-informed decisions to enhance long-term engagement and player journeys. Join a top-tier team pushing live-service excellence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game design experience on shipped progression, rewards, economies, engagement loops, or other interconnected game systems.
• Experience working on live-service, multiplayer, or free-to-play games.
• Strong implementation skills including text scripting and ability to create prototypes using in-house tools and platform.
• Experience taking features from concept through implementation and live iteration.
• Ability to break complex systems into clear rules, models, player flows, and requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform design decisions.
• Experience collaborating with UX, Engineering, Product, Production, Analytics, and other disciplines.
• Strong verbal communication and written documentation skills with the ability to present design rationale clearly to both development teams and design leadership.
• Ability to balance player needs, design quality, production constraints, and business considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design progression, rewards, mastery, collection, and player engagement systems for Apex Legends using clear system goals, rules, progression curves, reward structures, and player-facing experiences.
• Prototype, implement, tune, and iterate on systems using player feedback, telemetry, and live-service learnings.
• Actively contribute to estimation, scoping and feasibility assessments of designs.
• Partner with UX, Engineering and Technical Design to ensure complex systems are understandable, discoverable, easy to navigate, and scalable.
• Clearly communicate design intent, tradeoffs, and recommendations to partners and design leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing Apex systems based on player needs, data, competitive analysis, and broader live-service trends.
• Contribute to strong systems-design practices across the team.

Skills

Systems design

Live-service design

Telemetry analysis

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Job description

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to shape progression and player systems for Apex Legends. You will define progression, rewards, mastery, collections, and engagement features, collaborating across design, UX, engineering, analytics, art, and production.

The role emphasizes prototyping, live iteration, and data-informed decisions to enhance long-term engagement and player journeys. Join a top-tier team pushing live-service excellence.