Lead Competitive Systems Designer - Apex Legends

Electronic Arts Ltd; West Chatsworth (CA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da vaga

Respawn is seeking a Senior Systems Designer - Competitive Systems to shape how players compete in Apex Legends. You will design and evolve systems supporting Ranked progression, matchmaking, leaderboards, and rewards, collaborating with Design, Analytics, UX, Engineering, and Esports.

You will balance performance, fairness, and long-term engagement across a wide range of skill levels, using telemetry and live-service learnings to iterate features from concept through live operation.

Qualificações

• 5+ years of professional game design experience owning progression, scoring, competitive structures, or live-service features.
• Experience designing Ranked modes, rating systems, ladders, tournaments, and other competitive systems.
• Strong implementation skills including scripting and prototyping using in-house tools and platform.

Responsabilidades

• Design and own major competitive systems for Apex Legends, including Ranked progression, matchmaking-related features, scoring, and competitive rewards for both seasonal, annual and lifetime career cycles.
• Develop new competitive formats, limited-time modes, and structured competition beyond Ranked play.
• Define competitive goals, rules, progression, eligibility, and recognition to motivate players across all skill levels.
• Partner with Matchmaking, Analytics, Anti-Cheat, and Esports to ensure match quality, integrate integrity systems to deter abuse, and connect in-game competitive structures to ALGS and professional pathways.
• Balance competitive accuracy with queue times, accessibility, social play, and long-term engagement.
• Use telemetry, feedback, and live-service learnings to define metrics, evaluate outcomes, and iterate on features.
• Collaborate across UX, Matchmaking, Analytics, Anti-Cheat, Engineering, Esports, and Community teams to align on design intent, ensure competitive integrity, evaluate player outcomes, and support cross-functional goals.
• Prototype, implement, tune, and support features throughout development and live service operations.

Conhecimentos

Ranked modes design

MMR concepts

Live-service features

Text scripting

Data-driven design

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Ferramentas

In-house tools

Descrição da vaga

Respawn is seeking a Senior Systems Designer - Competitive Systems to shape how players compete in Apex Legends. You will design and evolve systems supporting Ranked progression, matchmaking, leaderboards, and rewards, collaborating with Design, Analytics, UX, Engineering, and Esports.

You will balance performance, fairness, and long-term engagement across a wide range of skill levels, using telemetry and live-service learnings to iterate features from concept through live operation.