Senior Systems Designer - Progression & Live Service

Electronic Arts; West Chatsworth (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Electronic Arts’ Respawn team is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to shape progression, rewards, and player engagement systems for Apex Legends. You will collaborate with design, product, UX, engineering, analytics, art, and production to take features from concept through live operation.

You will design, prototype, tune, and iterate on systems using telemetry and player feedback, while defining clear rules, progression curves, and player-facing experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game design on progression, rewards, economies, engagement loops, or other interconnected game systems.
• Experience working on live-service, multiplayer, or free-to-play games.
• Strong implementation skills including text scripting and ability to create prototypes using in-house tools and platform.
• Experience taking features from concept through implementation and live iteration.
• Ability to break complex systems into clear rules, models, player flows, and requirements.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform design decisions.
• Experience collaborating with UX, Engineering, Product, Production, Analytics, and other disciplines.
• Strong verbal communication and written documentation skills with the ability to present design rationale clearly to both development teams and design leadership.
• Ability to balance player needs, design quality, production constraints, and business considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design progression, rewards, mastery, collection, and player engagement systems for Apex Legends using clear system goals, rules, progression curves, reward structures, and player-facing experiences
• Prototype, implement, tune, and iterate on systems using player feedback, telemetry, and live-service learnings
• Actively contribute to estimation, scoping and feasibility assessments of designs
• Partner with UX, Engineering and Technical Design to ensure complex systems are understandable, discoverable, easy to navigate, and scalable
• Clearly communicate design intent, tradeoffs, and recommendations to partners and design leadership
• Identify opportunities to improve existing Apex systems based on player needs, data, competitive analysis, and broader live-service trends
• Contribute to strong systems-design practices across the team

Skills

5+ years game design

Live-service experience

Scripting & prototyping

End-to-end feature delivery

Systems design clarity

Data-informed design

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Balancing constraints

Tools

In-house tools

Job description

Electronic Arts’ Respawn team is seeking a Senior Systems Designer to shape progression, rewards, and player engagement systems for Apex Legends. You will collaborate with design, product, UX, engineering, analytics, art, and production to take features from concept through live operation.

You will design, prototype, tune, and iterate on systems using telemetry and player feedback, while defining clear rules, progression curves, and player-facing experiences.