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We are the EA Sports Mobile Team, a division of EA crafting high-quality mobile games and focusing on delivering high-quality, immersive experiences created to fit the lifestyle of mobile gamers. EA Sports Mobile currently operates in Vancouver, British Columbia, Orlando, Florida, and Bucharest, Romania.
Your Impact At EAAt EA, Game Designers are champions of the product. As a Game Designer, you’ll be an integral member of the team, shaping our games to satisfy both hardcore and casual players, driving commercial success on a free-to-play business model.
Responsibilities
- Working with the Lead Designer, Producer, and Product Manager to help define the design with regards to every facet of the game: structure, flow, economy, etc.
- Collaborating closely with all disciplines – engineering, art, QA, etc. – to implement features, systems, and content on schedule and to a high standard of quality.
- Giving direction and feedback to other design team members regarding the specifics of implementation.
- Planning and implementing mechanics and metagame tuning, including collecting and integrating feedback from user experience testing.
- Gathering and reporting detailed updates on the status and quality of the product as features are built.
- Developing and maintaining design documentation, with an emphasis on clarity and concision.
- Identifying, proposing, and implementing improvements to workflow and tools.
- Designing and creating wireframes and screen flows optimized for a mobile-first experience.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional game design experience.
- Proven success in designing mobile free-to-play games.
- Experience with metagame design, social gameplay, and endgame activities highly desirable.
- Live service experience also desirable.
- Deep familiarity with BCG, RPG, and sports genres on mobile, PC, and console platforms.
- Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
- Proficiency with MS Office (specifically Excel and Visio), wikis (e.g., Confluence), and wireframing (e.g., Balsamiq, Adobe XD) highly advantageous.
Please provide a portfolio including game design documentation and other examples of your design work.
About EA
At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
