Responsibilities:

• Oversee design vision and implementation, collaborating directly with designers, producers, programmers, artists, and other cross-functional members of game development teams.
• Lead the creation of features and programs to engage users and meet KPI goals.
• Develop the vision and lead a set of features or a large subsection of the game or of the live service.
• Work with PMs on qualitative and quantitative metrics to help support and guide feature direction.
• Use the combination of data insights, user research and design intuition to design features that grow the live services of our games.
• Support the creative vision as set by the Creative Director and Product Managers.
• Establish a depth of knowledge across existing systems, being able to oversee the entire suite of live service features and train/support junior members of the team on them.
• Determine experience goals for designs, and tune features to meet those goals.
• Be an active member of the development team using inclusive collaborative frameworks with diverse teams to decide on goals and establish the stories players want to tell within a given release.
• Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, testers, economy, engineers and producers to get support from the team and guide a project from initial design to final production.
• Become an expert on the game and our community, drawing from our large, varied player base and our past games to make and defend intelligent design choices going forward.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of game design experience on a video game development team, or the ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge.
• At least 2 years of real experience in an active live service game.
• Demonstrated understanding of Live Service games as an interconnected web of systems that make up the entire player experience - including the ability to predict how changes in one system will affect the entire experience.
• Excellent creative, analytical and organization skills.
• Demonstrated ability to write and relentlessly maintain detailed design documentation.
• In-depth understanding of UI/UX and its relationship to system design.
• Ability to create designer wireframes & mocks to effectively communicate your designs.
• Experience with designing features to target Engagement, Retention or Monetization goals.
• Experience with sports games as a designer or a passionate player.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge or passion for American Football + single player Modes within Madden, College or other sports games.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• Expertise with MS suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Miro, Visio, JIRA, and online collaboration suites such as Confluence.

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EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

Building on an incredible 30 year foundation, we’re redefining football with EA SPORTS FC - a genre-leading ecosystem of interactive experiences, bringing a global community of football fans closer to The World's Game. Together, we’re taking the largest football club in the world to new heights – and this is just the beginning! With more opportunity than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to fans everywhere, we invite you to join us as we pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS FC, and welcome everyone to the club!

Your Responsibilities

• Design and own large systems, mechanics, and content from concept through implementation to completion.
• Determine gameplay experience goals for designs, and tune features to meet those goals.
• Improve designs based on input from the team, user research and playtesting, game metrics, and sound systems design practices.
• Be an active member of the development team using inclusive collaborative frameworks with diverse teams to decide on goals and establish the stories players want to tell within a given release
• Be resourceful and solve problems using the tools and time/scope available to create unique and fun experiences for players.
• Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, testers, economy, engineers, and producers to get support from the team and guide a project from initial design to final production.
• Become an expert on the game and our community, drawing from our large, varied player base and our past games to make and defend intelligent design choices going forward.
• Have an eye for establishing and improving processes to make life easier for the Design team.
• Help establish best practices for the team and lead by example.

Your Qualifications

• At least 3 years of game design experience on a video game development team and at least 1 shipped game in a Design role.
• Excellent creative, analytical, and organization skills with an ability to write detailed design documentation.
• Progressive thinking while remaining energetic and motivated to overcome challenges with practical solutions.
• Champion a design and get the team excited to work on it.
• Experience prioritizing multiple tasks.
• Sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Effective at working both autonomously and in groups of different profiles.
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for gaming: playing, deconstructing, and creating.
• Experience with sports games as a designer or a passionate player

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What you'll do

You will partner with production and creative leadership to define and translate franchise goals into clear feature direction, development plans, and measurable outcomes. You will lead the prioritization, planning, and delivery of launch and live service features from concept to ship.

What you need

• 8+ years of professional game production experience, including senior leadership on at least one shipped AAA title.
• Proven ability to own features or systems across full development cycles in a console or PC title.

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