Associate Graphic Designer - Visual- (Madden)

Job Description

Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connecting millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. EA SPORTS Mobile is a division of EA SPORTS dedicated to creating high-quality mobile sports games connected to some of the world's biggest gaming franchises, including EA SPORTS FIFA and EA SPORTS MADDEN NFL.

The EA SPORTS Mobile team is founded on passion, innovation, and creativity with a mission to provide immersive sports gaming experiences built for mobile devices and played by over 450 million gamers around the world. With teams located in Orlando, Bucharest, and Hyderabad, EA SPORTS Mobile is powered by global talent and looking for passionate and creative new team members to design the future of mobile gaming.

Join the Experience Design Team driving the UX and UI effort for our NFL and NBA mobile apps. Promote the user-centered design, and be a collaborator and facilitator. Help guide the direction of the experience with a player-focused attitude as part of a diverse team of software developers and creative professionals. We are all about having fun, taking chances, and making great games that people want to play with their friends. Working on the next evolution of our NFL and NBA software, we are set to provide an experience to embrace and build upon everything that makes our franchises so special.

EA SPORTS Mobile is looking for a UI Designer to join our Orlando-based Experience Design Team to help maintain the look and feel for our UI. You will report to the Art Director.

Responsibilities:

• You will build relationships while working with a cross-disciplinary team, and partner groups to set priorities towards meaningful design solutions to meet the player and business goals within technical constraints.
• You and your team will apply and assist to establish a set of design standards, documentation, and principles that reflect our brand and are used alongside a design system of design interactions, patterns, and scalable components.
• You and your team will distill user research, competitive analysis, and feedback into user-centered design goals.
• You will organize, labeling and structuring content in a way that is understandable for users/players to allow them to find and move through information and complete tasks
• You will create iconography, pixel-accurate mocks, and specs of product screens for handoffs during feature production, assisting with development decisions and mitigate risk.
• You will help teams empathize with users and advocate for the usability and accessibility of mobile gaming.

Qualifications:

• BA, BFA or higher degree in HCI, computer science, design or related studies
• 3+ years of experience as an interface designer for games
• Experience designing touch-optimized layouts for web or mobile apps
• Experience leading as an advocate for quality with a sense of aesthetics and understanding of composition, grid, color theory, typography, and high fidelity interfaces
• Experience presenting and rationalizing UI design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences using these opportunities to advocate for players, share knowledge and demonstrate design thinking in action
• Proficiency with tools such as XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Established UX design sensibilities to understand different stages of development (i.e. user scenarios, flows, wireframes)
• Be knowledgeable of players needs, desires, and of technical limitations to support unbiased, accurate, and beautifully accomplished design solutions
• Understand free to play mobile games with a solid grasp of market design trends
• Knowledge of the NFL and NBA is not a requirement

It is required you share a portfolio or work samples, inclusive of unique and original designs for web and mobile platforms.

About EA At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.