Creative Director

Requisition Number: 157732

Position Title: Principal Game Designer I

External Description:

Creative Director

At Maxis, we excel at outrageous thinking. It’s the fuel that inspires the best games in the world. We’re innovators and great storytellers. But it’s not just about amazing your peers – it’s about amazing yourself and our fans. Take risks. Collaborate with brilliant minds and dare to dream big. Together, we can change the way millions play every day.

As a Creative Director for Maxis your job will be to use your passion, knowledge, and leadership to inspire the team, provide and communicate vision, inspire creativity and build incredible experiences that surprise and delight millions of gamers around the world.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Champion the creative direction on an ongoing basis, inspiring the team through progressive creative design and leadership.
• Collaborate with leadership and brand to establish creative direction for our games.
• Promote and pitch ideas to the Executive team and create excitement and enthusiasm.
• Understand new trends driving player expectations and behaviors.
• Understand how user-generated content and experiences are shaping products in the market.
• Partner with consumer insights to break down and understand the underlying motivations, and then driving solutions to problems and opportunities.
• Sensitivity to mass-market appeal, and the ability to innovate within it.
• Rally and create visible wide-spread support for vision
• Oversee primary design vision and implementation, working directly with designers, producers, programmers, artists, and development.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to peers and junior design staff, assisting them in the resolution of complex problems and growing their knowledge.
• Represent the game in both internal and external communications. This includes delivering strong presentations and taking responsibility for internal reviews with your team, , partner companies, and handling external interviews with the media.
• Be accountable for the quality targets and the results achieved.

Recommended Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years experience in a creative role within the gaming/entertainment industry.
• 5+ years of experience leading game teams and defining game design and narrative direction.
• Experience launching a live service.
• Broad, in-depth knowledge of game design. Additional areas of expertise in tech, art, business, etc. are a plus.
• Experience inspiring an organization irrespective of reporting lines; a vocal champion of the work that knows when to defend the work and when feedback will make the idea stronger.
• Excellent communication skills -- both written and verbal -- are absolutely critical. Can promote the vision for the studio and its projects both across EA. Experience with public speaking, a plus.
• Welcome feedback and criticism, and enjoy working in a collaborative, iterative, and agile process.
• Create and implement game concepts using different tools.
• Experience working with research departments to define tests and interpret data to refine design.
• Experience of taking major AAA PC games from concept to completion.
• Experience working with licensing partners is a plus.
• Experience developing games that support User Generated Content is a plus.
• A passion for games. Just as important, a drive to make a game with an impact at an industry level.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. 是全球领先的互动娱乐软件公司。 EA 提供适用于联网主机、个人电脑、手机和平板电脑的游戏、内容和在线服务。

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Days Open: 187

Can this position be remote?:

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EA 是一个奉行机会均等的雇主。 所有招聘决定均不考虑种族、肤色、国籍、血统、生理性别、社会性别、性别认同或表达、性向、年龄、遗传信息、宗教信仰、残障状况、医疗状况、怀孕状况、婚姻状况、家庭状况或退伍军人身份等因素的影响。 EA 还会遵照相关法律，为符合条件的残障个体改善工作环境。