# Game Designer II **Company**: Electronic Arts **Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana **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/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Game-Designer-II/215680?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a10b0261-29e ## Description Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. We're looking for a Game Designer II to own and drive medium to large-scale systems, economy features, and live-service improvements for Golf Clash. In this role, you will act as a key design owner for interconnected gameplay and economy areas, guiding features from concept through launch and post-launch iteration. You will help shape player-facing systems such as live events, leaderboards, matchmaking logic, feature surfacing, rewards, economy loops, and new-to-mid game progression. You will partner across disciplines to define requirements, validate hypotheses, assess cross-feature impact, and ensure that systems are fun, fair, scalable, and aligned with player and business goals. This role requires strong systems thinking, data-informed decision-making, high-quality documentation, and the ability to lead design conversations across product, engineering, analytics, UX, QA/QV, and production. ## Responsibilities - Own and deliver medium to large-scale features, systems, economy improvements, and live-service initiatives for Golf Clash. - Design and iterate on systems that support the new-to-mid game journey, reducing friction while maintaining long-term depth and progression. - Lead or co-lead the design of live events, including event structure, pacing, rewards, player segmentation, leaderboards, matchmaking rules, and surfacing logic. - Define and tune economy systems such as coin wagering, Club Cards, reward sources, sinks, progression flows, and player value exchange. - Create high-quality design documentation that communicates goals, player motivations, requirements, dependencies, edge cases, success metrics, and tuning rationale. - Break down complex systems into clear, manageable deliverables and align partner teams on implementation strategy. - Set or refine feature-level KPIs in collaboration with product, analytics, and design leadership. - Use telemetry, playtest results, player sentiment, and competitive research to guide tuning, prioritization, and post-launch iteration. - Partner with engineering, UX, art, product, analytics, QA/QV, and production to ensure features are feasible, polished, scalable, and delivered to quality. - Identify cross-system dependencies and clearly communicate the impact of tuning changes across economy, progression, matchmaking, rewards, and live ops. - Review peer designs, provide actionable feedback, and help maintain quality and consistency across Golf Clash features. - Mentor junior designers through design reviews, documentation feedback, tuning discussions, and implementation best practices. - Conduct competitive teardowns of modern mobile F2P and casual games, translating relevant insights into actionable opportunities for Golf Clash. - Proactively surface risks, blockers, ambiguous requirements, technical dependencies, and quality concerns with recommended solutions. - Play and evaluate Golf Clash regularly to maintain deep system knowledge, understand player pain points, and identify opportunities to improve the live experience. ## Requirements - 5+ years of game design experience, ideally on mobile F2P or live-service games. - Proven experience owning systems, economy features, live events, progression, or player journey improvements from concept through live operation. - Strong systems and economy design skills, with the ability to understand how changes impact player behavior, game balance, retention, engagement, and monetization. - Experience defining feature goals, player problems, hypotheses, success metrics, tuning plans, and post-launch iteration needs. - Ability to design and tune interconnected systems using metrics, telemetry, playtest feedback, and player sentiment. - Familiarity with Game Data systems, proprietary tools, design/engineering contracts, and implementation workflows. - Strong documentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex systems clearly to technical and non-technical partners. - Ability to lead cross-discipline design discussions, resolve ambiguity, and drive alignment across partner teams. - Experience reviewing designs, giving constructive feedback, and mentoring junior designers. - Strong understanding of mobile F2P player motivations, live ops pacing, progression, reward loops, feature surfacing, and economy balance. - Ability to evaluate competitive products and apply relevant learnings to a live-service roadmap. - High ownership, clear communication, proactive risk management, and strong collaboration skills. ## Nice to Have - Deep experience in economy design, progression design, matchmaking systems, leaderboard design, or event frameworks. - Experience designing live events similar to modern casual F2P games, including self-contained competition loops and reward structures. - Experience improving onboarding, early game, new-to-mid game, or returning player journeys. - Experience with A/B testing, segmentation, telemetry dashboards, and KPI-driven feature iteration. - Familiarity with Unity, Perforce, scripting, XML, SQL, analytics tools, or proprietary GameData workflows. - Experience on sports, competitive multiplayer, skill-based PvP, or long-running mobile live-service games. ## Skills ### Required - game design - systems thinking - data analysis - documentation - leadership ### Nice to have - economy design - progression design - matchmaking systems - leaderboard design - event frameworks - Unity - Perforce - scripting - XML - SQL - analytics tools --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail/Game-Designer-II/215680?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)