Game Mode Designer

DICE (EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment), the award-winning studio based in Stockholm, Sweden, is best known for creating the phenomenally successful Battlefield franchise, the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise, and the very creative game Mirror’s Edge.

We work through our 4 guiding values: Passion with Purpose, Creative Innovation, Everything Quality, and One Community. Our people are the backbone and driving force to our creative products. As such, we are dedicated to providing everyone the chance to express themselves and be their very best with a common cause.

Our Design team creates the layer between fiction and reality. Our mission to immerse players makes DICE UI technology challenging and fun. Challenges are given by UX design, but also rendering performance and implementing our outstanding art direction. At DICE, nothing is impossible and if a feature makes the experience better for our players we will make it work.

As a Senior Game Mode Designer you will with work with your creative directors and your team to build our next and latest game. You will improve the strategic development of game modes by extending on the game vision and use your knowledge of player empathy to guide your decisions. You will alternate between pitching ideas and presenting them to the project leads but also helping out accomplishing the over all strategy of the game.

Things we like to see at DICE

• A love for playing and making games.
• Take an idea from start to finish on your own.
• Prototyping, and the ability to sketch out ideas before diving into implementation.
• 5 years experience from games, applications or web development.
• Work in a value collaborative and creative environment.
• Willingness to share knowledge throughout the team.

Good to have experience with

• Work with game engines and game engine editors.
• Multiplayer Shooter experience
• Pitch and present
• Excellent knowledge in communicating strategy
• Practical implementation
• Level design
• Immersion and narrative
• Benchmark against other game genres
• Understand player engagement

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

At DICE we take care of our staff and have done so during our steady growth over the last decade. In addition to a great compensation package, we offer our employees 10 EA games per year, massage every three weeks, a variety of sports activities (yoga and cross fit to name a few) and healthcare allowance. We have a collective bargain agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer and also provide our employees with occupational pension.

We value our employees’ personal lives, and a good work-life balance is something we practice and maintain.

Next Steps

Apply online with a resume and cover letter. As part of the application process, we might ask you to perform a practical work test.