Game Designer - Gameplay

(Please attached your football related experience on your application, Thanks!)

As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences, connecting a global community of fans to The World's Game through innovation and unrivaled authenticity.

With more opportunity than ever to design, innovate, and create new, immersive experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and connection to fans everywhere, we invite you to join our passionate and dynamic team as we pioneer the future of football fandom.

EA SPORTS FC Mobile Shanghai is a global team devoted to developing and operating a high-quality mobile football game experience. Our quest for creativity, respect for autonomy, and emphasis on collaboration are at the heart of our team culture, which empowers us to create high-quality games and experiences worldwide.

As a team, we are passionate, innovative, and open to possibilities. We learn from past experiences and strive for progress. We value team synergy and believe a relaxed working environment can yield better results. That’s why we promote and support maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• 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.

• 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.