Senior Combat Designer (Warzone)

Location: Middleton, Wisconsin, United States; onsite four days per week

Salary: $82,240–$152,160 annual base pay, with potential incentive compensation

Company

Raven Software, part of hirify.global, develops Call of Duty: Warzone and other major AAA games, with a focus on collaborative, high-quality FPS experiences.

What you will do

• Develop, implement, balance, and maintain combat systems including weapons, functional equipment, kill streaks, and perks.
• Define gameplay system vision, structure, mechanics, pacing, and player-facing experiences for Warzone seasonal content.
• Prototype and test mechanics, use scripting tools, and refine systems based on test and live player feedback.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, artists, producers, animators, the Combat Lead, Production, and premium studio partners.
• Create systems design briefs, flowcharts, implementation guidelines, and multimedia design pitches.
• Resolve systems-related bugs and oversee final gameplay balance, technical quality, and polish.

Requirements

• 8+ years of games industry experience in systems design.
• At least three shipped AAA PC titles, including two as a combat designer.
• Experience with programming or scripting languages and combat system implementation.
• Experience balancing weapon metas, working on games-as-a-service products, and developing FPS games.
• Strong understanding of Call of Duty: Warzone, systems design, game development processes, and technical documentation tools.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, collaboration, ownership, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, or similar visual software.
• Experience mentoring junior designers.
• Extensive knowledge of free-to-play, FPS, and Call of Duty games.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, iterative, agile, and ego-free working environment.
• Medical, dental, vision, healthcare spending, life, disability, and related insurance benefits.
• 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave, bereavement leave, and floating holidays.
• Mental health, wellbeing, fitness, gaming, and other voluntary benefit programs.
• Relocation assistance may be available when geographic relocation is required for the role.