Electronic Arts

Senior Game Designer - EA SPORTS™ NHL

Vancouver, Canada

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.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise brings the fastest game on ice into the hands of passionate hockey fans from around the world to compete in the most exciting and authentic hockey experience. From chasing the Stanley Cup with an NHL team to living out your fantasy as a pro hockey player and even competing in heart pounding social experiences the NHL franchise truly offers something incredible for everyone.

Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the EA SPORTS NHL team is on a mission to become the world's greatest fighting game. If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, this is the role of a lifetime.

If you're passionate about building immersive digital entertainment, and you're passionate about your craft, this is the role of a lifetime.

At EA, Game Designers are responsible for crafting the product. They are the individuals who take initial ideas and find the fun in experiences that surprise and delight millions of gamers around the world. Our Senior Game Designers actualize the vision in features and gameplay by partnering with other designers, product owners, development directors, engineers, animators, and artists to create a great game.

As a Senior Game Designer on Hockey Ultimate Team with a focus on creating new experiences, modes and features, you will report to the Senior Creative Director and work within the Design team to deliver features, tuning balance, and content creation along with helping guide and improve other designs and designers. You will use your understanding and passion for designing player-first experiences.

You will also partner closely with the Hockey Ultimate Team Live Service Design Lead to ensure that any new features are connected into opportunities driven from qualitative and quantitative data gathered by our live team. 

 Your Responsibilities

• Work with design and product owner leadership to help us form the direction for game modes, ensuring that designs follow the product vision.

• Design detailed progression systems & features and tune them for our specific goals.

• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve high-quality results within the team’s constraints.

• Identify problems and opportunities and ideate to identify interesting solutions.

• Preparing and analyzing research to understand market trends, player sentiments; and using that data to form a creative vision aligned with business objectives.

• Partnering with Production Leads on prioritization of features and sub-features in project scope and development plan.

• Partnering with Peer Design Leadership on the Live Service team to ensure all new features and designs are connecting into relevant opportunities and insights 

Your Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Designer working with internal teams within the video game industry and creating top quality games.  (CCG experience is a valued asset)

• Varying game modes development experience.

• Familiarity with player progression systems.

• Experience of mentoring & coaching other designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.

• Experience of console/ AAA game development.

• Proactive and able to own design areas from initial creation through to implementation.

• Understand how to design player experiences that support the strategic business objectives.

• Versed in understanding game analytics and their value within crafting designs

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

This will be an onsite role at the EA Burnaby campus. 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $126,000 - $176,300 CAD

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.