Sr UX Designer

Requisition Number: 117444

Position Title: Sr Experience Designer

External Description:

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sports through industry-leading sports videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL® hockey, NBA LIVE basketball, NCAA® Football, Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® golf, SSX, and EA SPORTS UFC. For more information about EA SPORTS, including news, video, blogs, forums and game apps, please visit www.easports.com.

Role Overview

You will work with development and live services team to ensure that all our user experiences cover the end-to-end development pipeline, including identifying dependencies with other teams, crafting visual ID, and interfacing with core User Interface groups. The successful candidate will have a strong mix of design and artistic skills across the console and live services gaming space.

·         Ensure that Madden Ultimate Team (MUT) is a cohesive, accessible user experience with consistent interactions and visual identity.

·         Work closely with producers, game designers, artists, and engineers on design challenges and feature sets, with an eye on consistency.

·         Develop and advocate for key best practices in the UX space.

·         Work with User Research groups to validate UX designs, implementing feedback to improve all user experiences within MUT.

·         Produce high quality artistic designs, mocks, and visual ID elements to prepare the Live Services group for success in a reproducible manner.

What does EA look for?

·         An experienced UX designer with 7+ years experience crafting not only user interfaces, but informing the UX design and pipeline, preferably on AAA-live service or mobile live service games.

·         Knowledgeable in all facets of UX design and able to share best practices with other designers – interaction design guidelines, journey mapping, mind-mapping information architectures, rapid prototyping (including paper prototypes

·         Have a strong track record of shipping products at a high cadence, with live services experience preferred.

·         A strong artist – your portfolio shows strong art that can support your designs. Experience with multivariate, A/B, or similar testing techniques and able to use those to inform your designs. You must be able to quickly separate the wheat from the chaff in UR/UX testing results.

·         Enjoys an interactive and agile work environment and collaborates well with various work styles

 

 

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We love to brag about our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match and, of course, free video games. And since we realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, we offer competitive compensation packages and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

 

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/orlando-tiburon 

 

EA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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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. 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: 308

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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.