Electronic Arts

Senior Game Designer

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

As a Senior Game Designer, you will report to a Game Design Lead or Director and work within the Design team to deliver features, tuning and balancing, and content creation, also helping guide and improve other designs and designers.

Your Responsibilities

• Reporting into the Game Design Director, you will work with design leadership to help form the vision for areas of the game, and ensure that designs follow the product vision.

• Design complex systems and tune them for specific goals.

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

• Create new ideas and take external ideas and goals and work towards those.

• Take a holistic approach to quality and delivery to ensure that the feature set and corresponding execution creates the best possible product.

• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to validate and improve ideas.

Your Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a Designer working in medium/large teams within the video game industry.

• Experience mentoring other Designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.

• Experience of console / AAA game development.

• Experience working on designs from initial creation through to implementation.

• Understand business models, and how design and the business model work together.

• Understand why an idea will or won't work, and how to design to hit specific goals.

Regardless of your specialization, a few things we're always looking for:

• Passion. You love your craft and are always looking to learn more.

• A sense of humility and ability to thrive in a team environment. You look for help when you're stuck and you want to help your teammates when they need it.

• A knack for managing your time. You know when to go deeper on a task versus recognizing that it's time to get 'er done and move on to the next thing. Quality is important, but so is speed!

• Drive to execute. Projects you've worked on in the past (personal or professional) got finished, and got finished properly... and it had a lot to do with you.

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)
  • $107,600 - $147,100 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.