Lead Game Designer

Job Description

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, and EA SPORTS UFC. The Lead Designer communicates with partners to lead the project's game design to inspire great cohesive experiences for our players. Equally importantly, the Lead Designer cultivates and grows an exceptional design team. You will report to our Design Director and will play an instrumental role in the following:

Mako is the EA Mobile studio responsible for the development and live operations of NBA & NFL on Mobile. The Mako team is founded on passion, innovation, and creativity with a mission to provide immersive sports gaming experiences built for mobile devices and played by millions of gamer's around the world. With teams located around the world, Mako is powered by global talent and looking for passionate and creative new team members to design the future of mobile gaming.

Responsibilities:
• Partner with the Design Director, Game Director, Lead PM, and other team members to determine and refine the product goals
• Lead other designers to help them maximize their potential and performance in the creation of game experiences.
• You will inspire and motivate the team to achieve high-quality within constraints.
• Work with all disciplines – engineering, art, QA. – to implement features, systems, and content and to a high standard of quality.
• Take a holistic approach to quality and delivery to ensure that our experiences and corresponding execution create the best possible game
• Investigate and analyze to validate ideas.
• Champion design and design decisions to franchise leadership and executive partners.
• Work on the future direction for the franchise to keep it exciting in a fast-changing world.
• Foster an inclusive environment.

Qualifications:
• 5 + years experience on mobile games or games as a live service.
• 1+ years of experience managing small to medium-sized teams of designers
• You excel in mentoring other designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.
• You can oversee design areas from initial creation through to implementation.
• Strong knowledge of retention, engagement, and monetization, and how to design across different genres to target players
• You understand why an idea will or won't work, and how to design to hit specific goals.
• You can work with a large team through all phases of development.
• Knowledge of NBA or NFL sports
• Deep familiarity with BCG, RPG, and sports genres on mobile, PC, and console platforms.
• Knowledge of NBA or NFL sports
• Deep familiarity with BCG, RPG, and sports genres on mobile, PC, and console platforms.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0nzxe-3-142-199-138-42 in your application.