# Game Designer - Gameplay

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Shanghai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/fr_CA/careers/JobDetail/Game-Designer-Gameplay/216061?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are looking for a passionate Game Designer - Gameplay to join EA SPORTS FC Mobile, responsible for designing and refining the core gameplay experience of our mobile football game.

**Responsibilities**

- Core Mechanics Design: Design and iterate on core action mechanics such as shooting, passing, dribbling, defending, and goalkeeping, ensuring responsive, deep, and satisfying controls on both touchscreen and controller.

- Systems Design: Design and maintain gameplay systems including player attributes, skill moves, tactical systems, and AI behavior, ensuring balance and cohesion across systems.

- Prototyping & Validation: Rapidly build gameplay prototypes and validate design hypotheses through playtesting and data analysis, iterating continuously.

- Documentation: Produce clear design documents, mechanic rules, and tuning parameters that enable cross-functional teams to understand and implement your vision.

- Game Feel Tuning: Partner with animation, physics, and engineering teams to polish control response, animation transitions, and feedback, elevating the overall game feel.

- Balancing & Tuning: Adjust gameplay values and difficulty curves based on player behavior data and competitive fairness.

- Authenticity: Study real football rules, tactics, and player characteristics, translating them into gameplay mechanics that are fun, accessible, and deep.

**Qualifications**

- 3+ years of experience in game design gameplay, with at least one shipped title.

- Deep understanding of core gameplay and control design for action or sports/competitive games.

- Familiarity with mobile interaction constraints and design techniques, and a strong grasp of mobile players' control habits.

- Rapid prototyping skills (e.g., Unity/Unreal Blueprints, or in-engine scripting/visual tools).

- Solid data-analysis skills, with the ability to drive design decisions with data.

- Excellent communication and documentation skills in both English and Chinese, able to collaborate effectively across functions and languages.

- A genuine passion for and understanding of football, familiar with real tactics and match rhythm.

**Benefits**

- Comprehensive benefits program focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and community well-being.

- Opportunities for growth and development within the company.

## Skills

### Required
- game design
- gameplay mechanics
- mobile game development
- data analysis
- communication
- documentation

### Nice to have
- Unity
- Unreal Blueprints
- in-engine scripting
- visual tools
- football tactics
- match rhythm

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