--- title: 'Marathon UI/UX Director at Bungie' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/marathon-ui-ux-director-bungie-united-states-wyjvfwvyhyry' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Marathon UI/UX Director at Bungie - **Company:** Bungie - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $222k–$258k - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-04-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bungie/jobs/5921280004 ## Job description Bungie is seeking a UI/UX Director to drive and own the vision and quality execution of Marathon’s player interface. As a UI/UX Director you will be responsible for defining problem spaces and executional strategy based on product needs and goals. You will collaborate with other discipline directors to align on goals, constraints, and execution. You will also be accountable for unblocking, empowering, and managing the UI/UX discipline and ensuring the quality of their craft. In the context of Marathon, you are a member of a director level leadership group that directs efforts across multiple Marathon teams. You will be accountable to the Assistant Game Director while continuing to drive consistent and holistic user experience across project wide. ## RESPONSIBILITIES - Own, driving, and communicating the UI/UX vision for Marathon based on creative and production priorities. - Own Marathon UI/UX quality, design craft excellence, and consistency while holding UI/UX teams accountable to achieving vision and goals. - Prioritizing the UI/UX backlog, breaking down UI/UX problems for UI/UX Leads to own. and communicating status with other leaders. - Build alignment in the Director leadership group of UI/UX goals, constraints, and executions. - Work with Executive Producer to make sure teams are staffed appropriately for size and shape of goals, including strategy for using external development. - Develop and champion best practices of UI/UX process. - Collaborating on creative problem solving for product wide problems spaces beyond UI/UX. - Works with Executive Producer and Engineering Director on goals and needs of UI Technical Design, Visual Design, UI/UX tools and workflows. ## REQUIRED SKILLS - Experience as a UI/UX Director developing and implementing UI/UX vision for large-scale, multiplatform, live-service competitive FPS games. - Ability to creatively align and collaborate with other director level discipline leaders to help define and break down problem spaces. - Leading UI/UX teams in developing philosophy, process, capabilities, and execution. · Deep Experience with philosophy, process, design, documentation, and workflows of UI/UX systems. - Leading UI/UX teams to break down ambiguous problems spaces to clear goals, strategies, and tactics with testable hypothesis and tracking metrics. - Defining what successful UI/UX collaboration and integration looks like with other disciplines including User Research. - Managing UI/UX discipline including defining UI/UX roles, performance expectations, leading the hiring process, and building a highly functioning discipline. · Extensive demonstrated ability to work independently, driving tasks to completion with efficiency and reliability. - Proactive in making design decisions and solving problems with a focus on the broader impact to the overall project. - Social intelligence, great interpersonal skills, and empathy for creative teams. At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location. Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click [here](https://careers.playstation.com/benefits) to learn more. The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $222,000—$258,000 USD Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. ## About Bungie ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Bungie is a video game developer and publisher best known for creating the *Destiny* and *Halo* franchises, dedicated to building hopeful worlds that inspire passionate player communities and lifelong friendships. - **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; previously independent) - **Headquarters**: Bellevue, Washington, United States (with multiple offices in the Bellevue area) - **Founded**: 1991 (in Chicago, IL) - **Founders**: Jason Jones, Alex Seropian ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Video Game Development and Publishing (Entertainment) - **Target customers**: B2C (consumers / gamers), with a focus on building and maintaining large-scale, live-service game communities. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "To create worlds that inspire friendship." Bungie believes that entertainment plays a vital role in the health and well-being of the world and that technology can bring people together. ## Products & Services - **Destiny 2**: A massively popular, free-to-play, first-person shooter MMO-lite with a live-service model. It is Bungie's primary revenue driver, featuring ongoing seasonal content, expansions, and a dedicated community. - **Marathon** (Upcoming): A new, PvP-focused extraction shooter set in a sci-fi universe, announced in 2023. This represents Bungie's first new IP in over a decade and is currently in development. - **Halo Series** (Legacy): Bungie is the original creator of the iconic *Halo* franchise (1999-2010), which they developed before moving on to *Destiny*. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (Private company). - **Key Metric**: **Annual Revenue: $1.2 Billion** (as of latest available data) [linkedin.com]. **Total Funding: $100 Million** (from a single venture round in 2018) [linkedin.com]. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: **Sony Interactive Entertainment** (Parent company, acquired Bungie in 2022 for $3.6 billion). Bungie operates as a "wholly-owned subsidiary" with operational independence. - **Growth Signals**: Despite a slight headcount decrease of -3.5% YoY (currently ~823 employees) [linkedin.com], the company is heavily investing in its future. The development of *Marathon* signals a commitment to expanding beyond *Destiny* into new IPs. Bungie also operates an "Incubation" division focused on exploring and developing new game concepts [careers.bungie.com]. The company operates in 12 countries including the UK, India, Spain, and Canada [linkedin.com]. ## Competitive Advantages - **Legendary IP & Track Record**: A 30+ year history of creating some of the most beloved and commercially successful game franchises in history (*Halo*, *Destiny*). This provides a massive built-in audience and brand recognition. - **Live-Service Mastery**: Bungie is one of the most experienced studios in the world at operating a live-service game (*Destiny 2*), giving them deep expertise in community management, content cadence, and long-term player engagement. - **Creative Independence**: As a subsidiary of Sony, Bungie retains a high degree of operational and creative independence, allowing them to self-publish and control their own IPs, which is a rare advantage in the industry. - **Strong Community & Culture**: The company has a deeply ingrained set of core values ("Player Experience First," "Strong Ideas, Loosely Held," "Teams are Stronger Than Heroes") that guide its development and hiring [careers.bungie.com]. ## Strategic Focus - **Expanding the Destiny Universe**: Continuing to deliver major expansions and seasonal content for *Destiny 2* to maintain its player base and revenue. - **Launching *Marathon***: The single most important upcoming project. The success of this new IP is critical for diversifying Bungie's portfolio and proving its ability to build new worlds beyond *Destiny*. - **Incubation & New Worlds**: Actively investing in an incubation team to explore and develop new, unannounced game projects, aiming for long-term growth. - **Technology & Community**: Continuing to improve its proprietary engine and online infrastructure to support its live-service ambitions and foster healthy, inclusive player communities. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Bungie's culture is highly defined by its core values. They emphasize a "team over heroes" mentality, constructive feedback, and a player-first approach. They actively promote diversity and inclusion through employee resource groups (IDEAs) [linkedin.com]. - **Work Model**: The company has embraced remote and hybrid work. The *Marathon* team, for example, is actively hiring for remote positions in the US [careers.bungie.com]. - **Notable Perks & Environment**: The company is currently renovating a massive 100,000+ sq ft global headquarters in Bellevue, WA [careers.bungie.com]. They are known for a strong focus on employee well-being and maintaining a fun, creative atmosphere. - **Engineering & Talent**: The engineering team is a core part of the studio, with a focus on solving complex problems for live-service and next-gen game development. The team is composed of veterans from top studios (Microsoft, Epic, Riot, Blizzard, etc.) [linkedin.com]. - **Employee Rating**: 3.4/5.0 on LinkedIn, with high marks for Work-Life Balance (3.7) and Compensation (3.7), though Career opportunity is rated slightly lower (3.1) [linkedin.com]. ## Sources 1. [careers.bungie.com - About](https://careers.bungie.com/about) 2. [careers.bungie.com - Home](https://careers.bungie.com/) 3. [bungie.net - Home](https://www.bungie.net/7) 4. [linkedin.com - Bungie Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bungie) 5. [careers.bungie.com - Jobs](https://careers.bungie.com/jobs) ## Other roles at Bungie - [Principal Marketing Manager, Marathon (Contract)](https://feeny.ai/job/principal-marketing-manager-marathon-contract-bungie-united-states-nzs4psmqp5k5) — United States - [Senior Producer, Multimedia (Contract)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-producer-multimedia-contract-bungie-united-states-ckpm0a1pg3x0) — United States