Job Description

Requisition Number: 175156

Position Title: Director, Experience Design

External Description:

Experience Design Director, XD - EA SPORTS\xe2\x84\xa2 FC

Vancouver, Canada

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 biggest football entertainment platform, EA SPORTS FIFA, we are soon beginning an exciting new era. EA SPORTS FC will become 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 opportunity 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!

As part of FIFA, the ultimate purpose of this team is to be a catalyst for meaningful and impactful innovation and change.

You lead by example. You imagine, create, direct, and inspire exceptional outcomes. Your work speaks for itself, but you understand the value of storytelling and narrative. Your team, peers, and colleagues respect your design skills. You have highly developed skills as a designer and a creative leader. You believe that form and function share a symbiotic relationship. You\'re ready for a challenge, one that is design-led, one that asks you to steer an elite Experience Design Team to new heights.

Your work is a bar raiser, and your philosophies help designers produce exceptional work. You have a track record of leading visual identities and design systems for complex multi-platform UI experiences. You are a change agent that establishes new standards for quality, cohesion, consistency, and craft.

If this sounds like you, and you\'re in it to do career-defining work, read on and consider being a part of EA\'s most successful franchise of all time, EA SPORTS\xe2\x84\xa2 FC. You will report to Director of Experience Design

Key Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience as a creative visionary, leader, and practitioner.
• Extensive hands-on and leadership skills across UX, UI, IA, and creative direction.
• Extensive skills in multi-sensory composition, mapping complex interactions across sound design, visual design, and motion design.
• Architect and lead world-class, future-focused visual design and UI for FIFA.
• Proven track record of working with and leading high-performing design and creative teams.
• Advocate for design excellence, craftsmanship, and ease-of-use, in all directions.
• Broad spectrum experience in leveraging UX research and insights to drive strategy
• Evangelize and educate on the value of robust visual design systems that inspire higher efficiency, more consistent quality standards, scalable solutions, and repeatable patterns.
• Facilitate and lead collaboration and creative alignment with cross-functional partners.
• Continuously seek trend-setting opportunities to support innovation.
• Direct and design systems that have broad reach, depth of detail, and a bias for context.
• Forge a discipline and team culture that delivers exceptional design consistently while maintaining an environment of teamwork, inclusion, and compassion.
• Attract, recruit, train, and retain the best.

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):

\xc2\xba $157,450 - $245,500

• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):

\xc2\xba $154,950 - $245,500

• New Jersey (depending on location e.g. Jersey City vs. Trenton):

\xc2\xba $154,950 - $245,500

• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):

\xc2\xba $154,950 - $223,350

• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):

\xc2\xba $154,950 - $223,350

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We\'re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 232

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams\' careers.

We put our people first, and we make sure they\'re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn\'t end at the workplace-we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.

Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we\'re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We\'re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers-people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren\'t just keeping up-we\'re staying ahead of the game.

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.

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