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.는 세계를 선도하는 인터랙티브 엔터테인먼트 소프트웨어 기업입니다. EA는 인터넷 콘솔, 개인용 컴퓨터, 휴대전화, 태블릿용 게임과 콘텐츠 및 온라인 서비스를 제공합니다.

EEOText: EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부, 또는 법으로 금지된 기타 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. 또한, 해당 직책에 합당한 능력을 갖추고 있다면 범죄 기록이 있는 지원자도 관련 법률을 준수하는 방식으로 채용 여부를 고려합니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.

Days Open: 51

Can this position be remote?:

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA는 균등한 기회의 제공을 실천합니다. 모든 채용은 인종, 피부색, 출신 국가, 혈통, 생물학적/사회적 성별, 성 정체성 또는 표현, 성적 성향, 나이, 유전 정보, 종교, 장애 여부, 질병 유무, 임신 여부, 혼인 상태, 가족 상황, 군 복무 여부 등의 요인을 고려하지 않고 결정됩니다. EA는 관련 법률에서 명시하는 대로 업무 공간에 장애가 있는 입사 지원자 또는 예정자를 위한 시설을 마련해두고 있습니다.