Senior Director of Game Design

Requisition Number: 177263

Position Title: Senior Game Design Director II

External Description:

About the Organization: EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in sports & entertainment with nearly 30 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. We are creating a team to build a new unannounced AAA EA SPORTS product across platforms. This is your opportunity to join this new team that will shape the future of interactive entertainment and create the next great EA SPORTS game.

 

About our team: We are creating a new team composed of a mixture of veterans of EA/EA SPORTS and new talent from across industries. With some of the most valuable sports IP in the world, and the resources EA has to offer, we have access to the capabilities needed to deliver amazing new experiences for an expanded audience of players worldwide.

 

About the role: You will use your understanding and passion for designing player-first experiences to add to the creative execution and business success of the game. Reporting to the team VP, you will own the creative vision of the game, setting the vision with your game leadership peers and other discipline leads, and then lead the Design team in identifying and detailing features and game experiences to meet that vision.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work with other game and franchise leadership peers to help form the vision and direction for the game, and help to ensure that designs follow the product vision.
• Lead all Design and related (e.g. Art) functions for the team and help the team to maximize their potential and performance in the creation of game experiences.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve high quality within constraints.
• Take feedback from external groups and break it down to understand the underlying motivations, and drive solutions to problems and opportunities.
• Take a holistic approach to quality and delivery to ensure that the feature set and corresponding execution creates the best possible product.
• Investigate and analyze to validate ideas and opportunities.
• Champion design and design decisions to franchise leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Work on the future direction for the franchise to keep it relevant and exciting in a fast-changing world.

 

Your Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years as a Design Lead or Director on a large title or team.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a Designer working in medium/large teams within the video game industry, creating high quality games.
• Experience of mentoring other Designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.
• Experience in multi-platform/AAA game development.
• Self-motivated, proactive and able to own design areas from initial inception through to implementation.
• Understand how to effectively use the business model of the game, and how design and the business model work together.
• Open to ideas and criticism, and not be precious about your ideas.
• Understand why an idea will or won't work, and how to design in order to hit specific goals.

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The hourly pay ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the hourly pay range for your specific location.

EA has listed the hourly pay ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $184,250 - $271,700
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $193,000 - $300,850
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $184,250 - $300,850
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $184,250 - $252,600
• Jersey City, NJ :
º $212,300 - $300,850

The hourly rate is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Company Profile:

Nous sommes une équipe internationale de spécialistes de la création, de la narration, de la technologie, de la génération d’expériences, de l’innovation et bien plus encore. Nous pensons que nos équipes doivent être aussi diversifiées que nos communautés afin de créer des jeux et des expériences inoubliables. Chez Electronic Arts, la seule limite est votre imagination.

EEOText: EA est un employeur qui offre l'égalité d'accès à l'emploi. Toutes les décisions d'emploi sont prises sans prendre en considération les critères de race, couleur de la peau, origine ethnique, descendance, sexe, genre, identité ou expressions de genre, orientation sexuelle, âge, de nature génétique, religion, invalidité, état de santé, grossesse, situation matrimoniale, situation familiale, état d'ancien combattant, ou encore toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi. Nous tiendrons aussi compte des candidats qualifiés à l'emploi possédant un casier judiciaire, en vertu de la loi en vigueur. EA veille aussi à procéder à des aménagements spéciaux en milieu de travail pour les candidats qualifiés et présentant une invalidité, tel que requis par la loi en vigueur.

Days Open: 117

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

À propos d'Electronic Arts

Toutes nos actions sont tendues vers le même objectif : transmettre l'envie de jouer. Au travers de nos jeux innovants, de nos services novateurs et de nos technologies de pointe, nous offrons des possibilités infinies à des millions de fans dans le monde entier.

 

Nous cherchons des personnes inclusives et collaboratives aux points de vue variés pour enrichir notre culture et nous stimuler. Grâce à notre programme d’avantages sociaux, nous adoptons une approche holistique centrée sur le bien-être physique, émotionnel, financier, professionnel et communautaire pour soutenir les membres de notre personnel à chaque chapitre de leur vie. Nous fournissons un ensemble complet d’avantages sociaux garantissant une vie équilibrée et offrant notamment des congés payés, des congés parentaux, des jeux gratuits et bien plus encore. Notre objectif est de fournir un environnement de travail sûr et bienveillant qui vous permet de vous épanouir sur le plan personnel comme sur le plan professionnel.

 

Electronic Arts souscrit au principe de l’égalité des chances. Nous prenons nos décisions en matière d’emploi sans distinction de race, de couleur, de pays d’origine, d’hérédité, de sexe, de genre, d’identité ou d’expression de genre, d’orientation sexuelle, d’âge, d’informations génétiques, de religion, de handicap, d’état de santé, de grossesse, de situation familiale, d’ancienneté ou de tout autre facteur protégé par la loi. Nous étudions également les candidatures des personnes qualifiées possédant un casier judiciaire, conformément à la loi en vigueur. Par ailleurs, EA aménage l’environnement de travail pour les personnes en situation de handicap, conformément à la loi en vigueur.