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Senior Games Designer - F1

Electronic Arts

Birmingham, United Kingdom 03-28-2024
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  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
When it comes to our F1® franchise, our passionate team brings players closer to the action than ever before. Each iteration innovates to bring players new experiences, letting them live their dream of lining up alongside their heroes from the worlds of F1® and F2™. The F1® franchise is one of the highest-scoring of all time, according to Metacritic. With a focus on innovation and engagement, we're evolving the ultimate Formula 1 experience for players everywhere, and you could help us take the game to the next level.

As a Senior Games Designer within the F1 Live Ops team, you will report to the Franchise Senior Creative Director , working with the annual development team Design Leads and Live Ops Senior Producer. You will be responsible for ownership of the post-launch service plan for the F1 series, creating a compelling roadmap with the team to deliver new features, tuning, and balancing of existing game modes and determining the required content to implement.

Your Responsibilities
• Work with design leadership to help form the long-term creative vision for the F1 series in live service.
• Collaborate with all team disciplines, including artists, QV, engineers, product managers, and producers to get support from the team and guide a feature from initial design to live service.
• Operate as a bridge between feature development and design for the upcoming title(s) and offer feedback as to how it will be used in the live space.
• Design complex systems and tune them for specific goals.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of design documentation, including game design documents, and design briefs.
• Inspire and motivate the team to achieve high-quality within constraints.
• Take a holistic approach to quality and delivery to ensure that the feature set and corresponding execution creates the best possible product.
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to validate and improve ideas.
• In your role as a Senior Games Designer, you will also guide and mentor other designers.
• Work with our Data and Analytics Team to understand the impact of updates and features, determining ways to improve engagement, retention and player sentiment through live service.
• Your Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience as a Designer working in medium/large teams within the video game industry.
• Passion for games and an understanding of game mechanics and player psychology.
• Experience mentoring other Designers and providing insightful feedback on design efforts.
• Experience of console/mobile game development.
• Understand business models, and how design and the business model work together will be beneficial.
• Design and implementation experience with game features that have a live service/economy management component.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-ro8942-3-149-255-162-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. EA develops and delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, mobile devices and personal computers.