Full-Time
Marathon UI/UX Director
Bungie
501-1,000 employees
Develops and supports online multiplayer games
Compensation Overview
$222k - $258k/yr
Remote in USA
Remote
Remote role within the United States.
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- 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.
- 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.
Bungie is a video game developer that creates and maintains online action games and franchises, notably Destiny and Halo. Its main work is building games and keeping them fresh through expansions, updates, and in-game purchases, while also running bungie.net as a hub for news, player stats, forums, and support. The company’s games are designed to be played across Xbox, PlayStation, and PC, with ongoing content like seasonal events and clan features that keep communities engaged. Revenue comes from selling games, downloadable content (DLC), and microtransactions within its titles. Bungie differentiates itself with long-running live-service games, strong player communities, and regular, structured updates that add new content. Its goal is to deliver immersive, continuously evolving multiplayer experiences that maintain an active global player base.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$100M
Headquarters
Bellevue, Washington
Founded
1991
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Marathon still receives Sony support after June 2026 layoffs and rework.
- Destiny 2’s installed community remains enormous, preserving monetization and crossover demand.
- Bungie’s July 2026 Barrett settlement removed headline litigation and restored Marathon credits.
What critics are saying
- Sony wrote down Bungie $765 million in May 2026, signaling collapsing expectations.
- Bungie ended Destiny 2 content June 9, 2026, and lacks a greenlit successor.
- Marathon underperformed after its March 2026 launch; another miss threatens Sony closure talks.
What makes Bungie unique
- Bungie’s shooter craftsmanship and live-ops expertise still anchor Destiny and Marathon brands.
- Sony’s 2022 acquisition gives Bungie PlayStation distribution, capital, and platform leverage.
- Few studios match Bungie’s decade-long retention systems, clans, and seasonal content cadence.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Remote Work Options
401(k) Company Match
Flexible Work Hours
Parental Leave
Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
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↑ 7%Bungie faces an uncertain future following 400 layoffs, with its most crucial next step being approval of a new game project beyond Marathon, according to industry analysis. Whilst Marathon development continues, the studio currently has no other greenlit projects despite years of pitching new titles, including potential Destiny IP spin-offs. Sony's Herman Hulst acknowledged the studio is working on "incubation efforts for future projects", though any approved game would require years of development with smaller teams. The concern is that Bungie may pursue another live service title rather than returning to the single-player and co-op content that defined Halo and Destiny's success. Marathon alone cannot sustain the studio long-term. Sony must decide whether to invest in a significant new title or risk closure of one of gaming's most influential shooter developers.
Bungie, the Bellevue-based video game studio, has laid off 292 employees following disappointing performance of its "Destiny 2" update. The cuts primarily affected staff working on the Destiny series and a small number on the Marathon game. All impacted employees worked at Bungie's Bellevue location, with layoffs effective from 9 July. Most positions eliminated were video game engineers, producers and designers. This marks the company's third round of layoffs in three years. Bungie stated the workforce reduction was necessary to "best position the studio" for the future, acknowledging Destiny 2 fell short of expectations. The studio, which created the iconic Halo franchise under Microsoft ownership, was acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment for $3.6 billion in 2022.
Bungie is not immediately developing Destiny 3 and is planning layoffs, according to Bloomberg. Sources told reporter Jason Schreier that the studio has no specific project greenlit for the Destiny 2 development team following today's announcement that the game will cease receiving live service content updates. The studio will instead invest more in Marathon, its extraction shooter that launched earlier this year but hasn't met sales expectations. Bungie plans to add a casual PvE mode to attract more players. Bungie has struggled with new projects recently. In 2024, the company laid off over 200 employees after cancelling Destiny spin-off Payback. Today's announcement stated Bungie will "begin work incubating" its next games, though any future Destiny title appears far off.
Sony has revealed an additional $565 million in impairment losses for Bungie, bringing the total to $765 million since acquiring the studio for $3.6 billion. The impairment losses reflect a downward adjustment of Bungie's perceived value rather than direct financial losses. Despite this, Sony publicly backed Bungie's struggling extraction shooter Marathon, citing an 82 Metacritic score and 90% positive Steam reviews. However, the game continues losing players since launch, with numbers approaching those of 11-year-old Destiny 2 on PC. Sony projects these impairment losses will be absent or significantly reduced by fiscal year 2026. The company plans to improve Marathon through additional content and gameplay enhancements. Notably, Destiny 2 went unmentioned in Sony's earnings discussion, raising concerns about the franchise's future direction.
Bungie's extraction shooter Marathon has generated approximately $50-55 million in sales since launch, according to analytics firm Alinea, figures that sources confirmed are close to actual numbers. The game cost between $200-300 million to develop over five years. Despite an 89% positive rating on Steam, where 70% of players are based, Marathon's 88,000 concurrent peak represents a significant shortfall. Only 20% of players are on PlayStation. The game has sold roughly 1.2 million copies, far below successful launches like Helldivers 2's 12 million in 12 weeks or ARC Raiders' 14 million in four months. Whilst many players have invested 50-100 hours in the two weeks since launch, daily active users dropped 20% weekend-to-weekend. The game faces ongoing costs as a live service requiring continuous content development.