# Game Design Director

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Game Design Director to define and drive the overall gameplay direction for our Battlefield franchise, ensuring the quality of gameplay systems, mechanics, and player interactions within the game.

Responsibilities:

- Establish gameplay design vision and standards

- Deliver fun, engaging, and balanced gameplay experiences

- Partner with Creative and Product leadership to establish a prioritized roadmap

- Drive the design group to deliver high-quality features on schedule

- Align design direction with established creative and product goals

- Support the production team in effective feature scoping

- Provide direction and mentorship to design leads and their teams

- Establish repeatable design processes for rapid development in a live service environment

- Implement a unified gameplay vision across all live service seasons

- Empower creative leadership with clear design requirements for their respective areas

Requirements:

- Experience directing multiplayer AAA FPS titles

- Extensive background in live service operations

- Design mastery of combat, gunplay, and progression systems

- Proficiency in game mode design (Battle Royale or similar)

- Success in leading design teams and directors

- Experience communicating directly with player communities

- Ability to drive design direction through clear communication and influence

- Capability to provide frameworks and guardrails while allowing creative freedom

- Skill in mobilizing multi-disciplinary lead groups toward a single direction

- Effective collaboration with other discipline directors to deliver on game vision

- Ability to translate high-level direction into actionable design priorities

- Proficiency in translating player data and feedback into design pivots

- Proven track record leading design during the live operation of a game

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, and collective well-being support

- Opportunities for growth and development

- Flexible work arrangements

- Access to free games and more

At Electronic Arts, we value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. We encourage our employees to make great work happen and pursue opportunities for growth.

## Skills

### Required
- game design
- game development
- multiplayer game development
- live service operations
- combat game design
- gunplay design
- progression systems design
- game mode design
- leadership
- communication
- influence
- design direction
- player community management
- data analysis
- feedback analysis

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