Please note: this is a 12 month (temporary) employment opportunity. Hybrid work (3x per week) is required in our Orlando, FL. studio only.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC

We're looking for a writer that can wear multiple hats; someone with a love and passion for video games, a pulse on pop culture, and knowledge of American football, to create fiction both for the internal team to add definition to existing high level creative ideas and concepts, as well as work on player facing elements such as on screen text, player dialogue, broadcaster dialogue, etc.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design, write and prepare scripts for announcers for multiple different game modes, as well as for player barks and emotes

• Attend recording sessions in-studio and work with voice-over talent, producers, directors and audio support staff to ensure that what's recorded meets our high-quality bar.

• Write copy for in-game UI screens, tutorials, and other player facing dialogue

• Work with implementers and audio staff to ensure that new lines are playing accurately in-game.

• Participate in weekly design meetings and review sessions.

• Analyze and critique current builds for quality and accuracy of writing and dialogue

• Identify areas for added depth and improvements to commentary, on screen dialogue, and all areas of player facing writing or commentary

Your Qualifications:

• Strong footballknowledge! Candidate should have knowledge of players, teams, recent news, history, terminology, etc.

• Creative or video game writing background/experience.

• Strong communication skills/ability to solicit feedback from the team on your writing prior to deadlines.

• Familiarity with, and demonstrated knowledge of video games across multiple genres

• Knowledge and ability to work in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

• Any experience on game development teams in narrative design, writing and/or other aspects of design is desired, but not required.

• Experience as a collaborative team player who understands good fiction ideas can come from anywhere on the team.

• Ability to hit writing deadlines, so that ample review can be given to content/rewrites to happen prior to sessions with commentary talent.