Sr Game Designer

Requisition Number: 158076

Position Title: Sr Game Designer

External Description:

At Maxis, we thrive on 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 Designer on a new IP, you’ll be working with a large (but tight-knit) team of enthusiastic industry craftspeople from all walks of life.  Your job will be to use your passion and knowledge to design and create player-first experiences from end to end, to surprise and delight millions of gamers around the world. 

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as an advocate, representing the Design team to the rest of the dev team.
• Help define best practices for the team.
• Be a proactive member of the Design team, brainstorming and writing designs, and providing feedback to other designers.
• Become a proactive mentor to more junior members of the team.
• Have a depth of knowledge across a majority of systems, being able to own entire pillars for the game and train/support the team on its features.
• Define gameplay experience goals for designs, and tune features to meet those goals.
• Iterate on designs based on internal/external playtests, game metrics, team input and community feedback.
• Be resourceful and solve problems using the tools and time/scope available to efficiently craft unique and fun experiences for players.
• Communicate and collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, animators, modelers, engineers and producers to get buy-in from the team and drive 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 improving process and efficiency to make life easier for the Design team.

Recommended Skills and Experience

• 2 - 3 years of game design experience on a video game development team.
• Excellent creative, analytical and organization skills with proven ability to write and maintain detailed design documentation throughout a project life cycle.
• Open-minded, progressive thinking while remaining flexible, energetic and driven to overcome challenges with practical solutions.
• Strong communication and inter-personal skills, with ability to champion a design and get the team excited to work on it.
• Exceptional time-management practices.
• Ability to learn and become proficient in a variety of proprietary development tools.
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Design and implementation experience with game features which focus on open-ended player creativity.
• Effective at working both autonomously and in groups of different profiles.
• Knowledge of and enthusiasm for gaming: playing, deconstructing and creating.
• Experience with Maxis games and other simulation games.

Desirable Skills

• Shipped a AAA HD title.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
• Comfortable with MS suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.), Google Docs, Visio, JIRA, online collaboration suites such as Confluence.

 

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.