Experience Designer - EA Sports FC

Job Description

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment – connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

After nearly 30 years of creating genre-defining, interactive football experiences with the world's largest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA, we rebranded to EA SPORTS FC. This marks the future of football from EA SPORTS as we strive to take global football experiences to new heights on behalf of football fans everywhere.

With more opportunities than ever to innovate and create new, authentic experiences that bring joy, inclusivity, and immersion to a global community of fans, we invite you to join us and pioneer the future of football with EA SPORTS!

The Role:

We at EA Sports have reached the next level of cohesion and craft by evolving into a modern Experience Design practice that brings UX and UI together, understanding that neither exists in a vacuum. The team is passionate and committed to developing an immersive player experience within FC. You will use your creativity, passion and knowledge of experience design, branding, and modern UI/UX practices to develop leading edge experiences for highly engaged Football Club fans. You will work closely with the Game Design Director and your partners from the Experience Design Team, Engineering, Game Design, Production, Art Direction and Creative Direction to create experiences that surprise, delight and inspire millions of players around the world to play. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work and be a part of EA's most successful franchise – EA SPORTS FC.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience creating crafted design solutions: concepts, prototypes, content, and high fidelity UI experiences that promote ease of use, are engaging, and align with the product's goals, usability and accessibility standards and brand.
• Proficiency in design, including expertise in layouts, information organization, typography, and understanding of user behaviors and patterns.
• You are comfortable presenting and rationalizing design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences, using these opportunities to educate and promote.
• You are passionate about design and you know when to slow down and when to speed up.
• You can inspire optimism and positivity within your team.
• You are comfortable working with varying levels of the organization and collaborating with team leaders across the franchise.
• You enjoy collaboration and appreciate the exchange of ideas and concepts.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage and contribute to an established FC Design System when creating visual and interactive solutions.
• Partner with UI/UX team, Game Designers, Producers, Art Directors, and Software Engineering teams.
• Design the best pathways to guide our players through the menus and options.

Nice to have:

• Motion design experience (After Effects, Flash)
• AR, VR, 3D design experience (Maya, C4D, KeyShot)
• Game development experience with UI and UX pipelines

At EA, we believe our future is to build joyful experiences and push the boundaries of our games and we want your help and expertise in doing so. If this resonates with you and you have something to contribute, please contact us, even if you don't meet all of the criteria above.

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