Blizzard Entertainment

Lead Class Design - Diablo

Blizzard Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Irvine • California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $97,200 - $179,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the design of character classes, abilities, and gear, ensuring they’re fun, balanced, and aligned with the Diablo experience.
  • Lead class development from early concepts through implementation, iteration, and live service evolution.
  • Collaborate closely with design, engineering, and art leads to integrate features seamlessly into the game.
  • Partner with production to plan, scope, and execute on our long-term vision.
  • Drive playtesting and iteration, identifying balance issues and opportunities for improvement.
  • Champion innovation in class design while maintaining accessibility and clarity for players.
  • Partner with Systems Design to ensure classes scale meaningfully across progression, itemization, and endgame content.
  • Analyze player feedback and gameplay data to inform design decisions.
  • Clearly document and communicate design goals, decisions, and systems to the broader team.
  • Lead initiatives that support design consistency, team alignment, and long-term scalability.
  • Foster a healthy feedback culture by providing and receiving objective, actionable feedback.
  • Coach, mentor, and support a team of class designers, setting standards and best practices for class development.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional game design experience, with a strong focus on systems or class design.
  • 1+ year of experience as a Lead or People Manager in the Design field.
  • Proven ability to lead features or systems from concept through implementation and iteration.
  • Deep understanding of gameplay balance, progression, and player behavior analysis.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills across multiple disciplines.
  • A well-developed sense of what makes classes and systems fun, rewarding, and replayable.
  • Familiarity with scripting languages and a solid foundation in math or analytical problem-solving.
  • Deep familiarity with ARPG gameplay and player motivations.
  • Experience contributing to or supporting live-service games and post-launch content updates.
  • Hands-on experience designing classes that are tightly integrated with itemization, progression, or endgame systems.
  • Comfort prototyping gameplay or implementing abilities using scripting languages or proprietary tools.
  • Demonstrated success growing, mentoring, and developing designers through sustained leadership and feedback.
Benefits
  • 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
  • Relocation assistance if required to move geographic locations for the job
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationleadershipmentoringfeedback cultureinnovationdesign consistencyteam alignmentcoachingproblem-solving