Senior Experience Designer - FIFA

Job Description

Senior Experience Designer - FIFA

Vancouver, Canada

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment with over 25 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and players. At the heart of EA SPORTS is the FIFA franchise. EA SPORTS FIFA is the world's #1 best-selling video game with over 200M engaged players across multiple platforms.

Innovation, passion, and team-work is at the heart of everything we do. With studios in Vancouver, Bucharest, Toronto, and Cologne; we are looking for the brightest talent to join us so we can continue to create experiences that connect with millions of hearts and minds.

As a Senior Visual Experience Designer on FIFA you will work with a team of craftspeople devoted to creating meaningful and impactful innovation in gaming. You will use your creativity, passion, and knowledge of visual design, branding and modern UI/UX practices to develop leading edge experiences for highly engaged FIFA fans. You will work with your UI, UX, Engineering, Game Design, Production, Art Direction, and Creative Direction partners to create experiences that surprise, delight, and inspire millions of gamers around the world to play. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work and be a part of EA's most successful franchise – FIFA.

Your Responsibilities
• Create the visual language of FIFA's UI which includes layout, composition, iconography, typography, graphic design and brand expression.
• 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.
• Drive and evolve the Visual and UI Design Systems to ensure that players enjoy a consistent and immersive gaming experience.
• Partner with UI, UX, Game Designers, Producers, Art Directors, Project Managers and Software Engineering teams.
• Work closely with and take direction from the UI/Visual Experience Design Director.
• Lead important projects for product development and large feature design.
• Lead a small team of UI Designers.
• Mentor UI designers in process, teamwork, and design thinking.
• Provide clear feedback to other members of the Visual Experience Design team on designs and opportunities for aesthetic improvement.
• Advocate for design excellence, craftsmanship, accessibility and usability.
• Document and guide awareness of UI standards and push to improve UI design workflow processes.
• You will report to a project manager responsible for product development.

Your Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience as a UI designer, interaction designer, product designer or similar role. Your experience includes some combination of: game and/or mobile products.
• Expertise in the Adobe Suite (PS, AI, XD) and other visual design tools.
• Expert visual design skills (i.e., composition, layout, typography, and color theory).
• Expert understanding of interaction design practices.
• Game development experience with UI and UX pipelines.
• Knowledge of usability principles and designing for accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity.
• Excel in a team-oriented, product-focused environment.
• Collaborative mindset, to participate in a transparent and learning culture within the team.
• You understand the importance of providing and soliciting feedback in a graceful, constructive manner, with suggestions and solutions for improvement to both process and project.
• You are comfortable presenting and rationalizing design strategy and decisions to diverse audiences, using these opportunities to educate and promote.
• You can clearly articulate yourself with strong written and verbal communication to a broad range of audiences.
• A portfolio showcasing work samples, inclusive of process, and unique and original designs across multiple digital products.

You Are
• Creative and passionate about design.
• Empathic and able to inspire optimism and positivity within your team.
• An advocate for user centered design processes (player first).
• Up-to-date with current design and art trends.
• Successful in a team-oriented, product-focused environment.
• Enjoy collaboration and appreciate the exchange of ideas and concepts.

Bonus Qualifications
• Motion design experience
• 3D design experience (Maya, C4D, KeyShot)
• Technical implementation experience (game editors, scripting languages and tools)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rzyw33-18-119-253-93-42 in your application.