Principal Quest Designer

Team Name

World of Warcraft

Job Title

Principal Quest Designer

Requisition ID

R027433

Job Description

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented and experienced Principal Quest Designer to help shape high-impact questing and outdoor gameplay experiences for World of Warcraft.

As a senior individual contributor and quest design expert, you will own and shape the most complex quest content and systems for the game. In this role, you will serve as an in-house franchise-level subject matter authority, influencing questing standards, design approaches, and player experience across World of Warcraft, while helping raise the bar across the quest design team through mentorship, collaboration, and craft excellence.

Operating with a high degree of autonomy and discretion, you will tackle ambiguous, high-impact design challenges and help define scalable best practices and design frameworks that inform long-term direction. You will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, artists, producers, QA, and leadership to bring quest content from initial pitch through final implementation, ensuring consistency, quality, and authenticity throughout. We value diverse voices and varied backgrounds, and we are looking for individuals who will help us build fun, compelling, and inclusive gameplay experiences for World of Warcraft.

This role offers a flexible hybrid work week from our Irvine, CA or Boston, MA studio locations, with a mix of remote and on-site days. While hybrid is the standard arrangement, you are also welcome to work on-site full-time if you prefer.

Responsibilities

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Help express the story of World of Warcraft through excellent exploration, gameplay, and activities.

Looking to advance your Graphic Design & Art career with relocation support? Explore Graphic Design & Art Jobs with Relocation Packages that include comprehensive packages to help you move and settle in your new role.

• Act as a franchise-level expert for questing and outdoor gameplay, providing guidance on high-impact, high-complexity content and systemic design.
• Independently drive solutions to complex design challenges, balancing creative, technical, systemic, and production considerations.
• Partner with designers, engineers, artists, QA, producers, and leads to plan, implement, document, and test quest content that contributes to a cohesive World of Warcraft experience.
• Establish and uphold quest design standards, best practices, and scalable design frameworks, influencing work across multiple teams and initiatives.
• Mentor team members through design iteration, problem-solving, and implementation best practices, elevating overall craft quality.
• Identify and advocate for process improvements that strengthen the quest design pipeline and support long-term franchise development goals.
• Promote, contribute to, and participate in Blizzard’s culture of inclusion, diversity, and collaboration.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• 13+ years of experience creating quest content or outdoor world repeatable content, with ownership of major content from concept through completion.
• Advanced expertise in quest design, with the ability to evaluate complex problems where solutions are not always clearly defined.
• Demonstrated ability to influence design direction and outcomes across teams without direct authority, often shaping cross-team or franchise-level decisions.
• Proven ability to mentor and guide others through feedback, leadership by example, and shared problem-solving.

Discover our full range of relocation jobs with comprehensive support packages to help you relocate and settle in your new location.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse roles and perspectives.
• Ability to provide and receive feedback thoughtfully and to help teams arrive at the best overall design decisions.
• Strong passion for playing and making computer games.
• Familiarity with World of Warcraft questing and outdoor content.
  
  

Your Platform

Best known for iconic video game universes including Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, and StarCraft®, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment experiences. Blizzard Entertainment has created some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed and genre-defining games over the last 30 years, with a track record that includes multiple Game of the Year awards. Blizzard Entertainment engages tens of millions of players around the world with titles available on PC via Battle.net®, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc., is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovative worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The video game 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 love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all the 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 accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com. General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

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

Requirements

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 $116,800.00 - $216,000.00 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.