UX Designer

Requisition Number: 153793

Position Title: Experience Designer II

External Description:

UX DESIGNER

EA is seeking a User Experience Designer to join our passionate and creative mobile team! You’ll be responsible for leading UX design work, evolving problems that are complex and ambiguous into clear actionable design solutions. You'll work from concept to completion by collaborating closely with other designers to achieve your goals. Most importantly, you will be responsible for ensuring the player experience is intuitive in guiding them through a complex network of selection and customization screens.

The Job

• Produce designs using low-fidelity mockups, wireframes, user flows, journey mapping and other UX methodologies to help convert design challenges into viable shippable solutions which follow and compliments to our UX strategy and design principles
• Collect feature goals and pillars from gameplay and system designers and player insights from our User Researchers and convert them into solid UX strategies
• Facilitate design collaboration sessions and ensure all efforts go through the proper steps of our design process
• Build functional prototypes
• Work with discipline leads on establishing strategies, design standards and patterns

Qualifications

• 3+ years designing in the field of UX for console games, websites, mobile apps, and/or other similar digital products; preferably experience working on AAA games and other larger-scale products, consumer-facing products, with a great portfolio to show
• Excellent collaborator and able to move a design forward with stakeholders using solid and proven collaboration methods
• Communicate in a clear and focused manner to inspire stakeholders to follow-through on great designs
• Player First-Centered Design champion; put the player needs at the center of all phases of the design process and feature development. Advocate for identifying the core needs of the players in all design discussions
• A desire to continue working to improve your skills and evolve your design thinking practices, although you've mastered the design tools in your kit (e.g. wireframes, personas, journey mapping, information architecture, prototyping)
• Thoughtfully break experiences down in order to ship value to our players. Understand that good design needs iterations and frequent evaluations, knowing how to measure success using both qualitative and quantitative insights
• Proficient with UX design and prototyping tools creating wireframes, flows, and more
• Experience in implementing UX guides and designing within the constraints of existing brand identities
• Experience working with UX researchers and applying user test findings to improve the usability and overall quality of your designs

Nice to Have Skills

• BA in Human-Computer Interaction, User-Centered Design, Cognitive science or equivalent
• Scripting/programming experience
• Experience working in Agile and using a Player-Centered Design process
• Ability to use Illustrator, Photoshop or equivalent software to convey designs
• Previous working experience in games across multiple platforms
• A passionate gamer who understands the unique characteristics of a good overall user experience in entertainment and game design theory

Please include URLs for an online portfolio in addition to resume. Submissions without a portfolio included will not be considered.

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Company Profile:

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. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. 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: 9

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

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. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. 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.