Design Director - Apex Legends Mobile

Requisition Number: 162344

Position Title: Senior Game Design Director I

External Description:

Design Director- Apex Legends Mobile

RESPAWN

Respawn Entertainment is a AAA video game development studio that aspires to create new hit games that leave a lasting impact for gamers worldwide. Our work includes the critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends and Titanfall franchise.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to our Head of Apex Legends Mobile, you'll lead the design vision for the title, managing game features, shooting systems and  social systems. 
• Contribute to the overarching meta and elder game direction.
• Breakdown trending mobile games with the ability to identify key drivers, articulate your point of view and iterate on those features to drive our product forward.
• Conceptualize and communicate new and engaging gameplay experiences and use your technical ability to bring your vision to life.
• Establish player experience goals for designs, implement and tune features to meet those goals.
• Provide feedback to other designers.
• Improve designs based on play test feedback, game metrics, team input and community feedback.
• Think creatively using the tools and time available to build unique and fun experiences for players.
• Adopt and become proficient in new or proprietary development tools to implement and debug your work.
• Think about the future when implementing content, resulting in smartly scripted scalable systems and good design patterns and practices.
• Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, animators, modelers, engineers, quality assurance, and producers to get support from the team and guide a project from initial design to final production.
• Advocate for the design vision and get the team excited to work on it.
• Balance your design vision with input from your peers to find practical solutions that achieve the intended player experience.
• 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.
• Help establish best practices for the team and improve process and efficiency.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of game design experience on a mobile game development team.
• Experience with 1^st and 3^rd person shooters, BR games and free-to-play games
• Experience working with 3^rd party developers.
• Excellent creative skills with experience creating detailed design documentation and maintaining it throughout a project life cycle.
• Design and implementation experience with game features that 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 shooter/battle royale mobile games
• Good to have...Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. and experience with Visio, JIRA, online collaboration suites such as Confluence

 

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Electronic Arts Inc. è un'azienda di software di intrattenimento interattivo leader globale. EA offre giochi, contenuti e servizi online per console collegate ad internet, personal computer, cellulari e tablet.

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Days Open: 139

Can this position be remote?:

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EA promuove le pari opportunità. Qualsiasi decisione di impiego viene fatta senza discriminazione di razza, colore, nazionalità, origini, sesso, genere, identità o espressione di genere, orientamento sessuale, età, informazione genetica, religione, invalidità, condizione medica, gravidanza, stato civile, stato familiare o anzianità. EA rende accessibile il posto di lavoro per gli individui diversamente abili, come indicato dalla legge.