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.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL.

The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love. 

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.